Can a GP help with dull knee pain and aching calf?

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I’ve had a sore right knee for about a week and a half, no redness or swelling. Not hot to touch. It’s not a sharp pain it’s like a constant dull ache. I had Osgood schattlers as a teen which is a prominent bone under my knee cap which is where the pain is radiating from but the bone itself doesn’t hurt. It hasn’t bothered me for over 20 years.
today now my left calf also has a dull ache which I assume to be overloading because my right knee is hurting?
can a GP help with this? I will contact tomorrow. But I have pretty bad health anxiety and worried.

I don’t know if this matters but I do go to the gym and do include some of these exercises alternating quite frequently on leg day which is twice a week…
leg press, Romanian deadlifts, hip thrusts, leg extensions, hamstring curls - could this be the cause? Reduced this obviously since the knee pain started..

my legs feel so achy and throbbing but no swelling whatsoever

GP won't help. Just rest it, ice it, and then strengthen it while keeping pain at 1-2/10.

Rest, take regular over the counter pain relief and then gentle exercise.
if there’s no wounds, redness and swelling, enlarged veins, no injury and you haven’t rested etc the Dr would probably suggest that first.

It’s so frustrating my legs and knees feel tight and stiff when I walk too.

If you have the means, see a physio or podiatrist. My GP said they are much better placed to do a thorough examination and diagnosis for anything musculoskeletal. If there's anything more required (Xray, meds, surgery), the physio/podiatrist will write to the GP.