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Pain during keeping leg straight
I am having this problem in my left leg towatds the left side down from the waiste... when i keep my leg straight while sleeping or when bending the uppar half of my body keeping the leg straight it cause a shooting pain starting from below the hip and feels like travelling down to the calf muscles... feeps like something is being pulled from within... m not able to sleep since last so many days because of this problem... i have taken a lots of painkiller bt nothing seems to work... it is very uncomfortable... though i dont have problem while walking... this happens when keeping the legs in straight posture..
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This looks like a case of sciatica . In this problem there is a piece of your intervertebral disc which has slipped and is pressing on the left nerve. and that is the reason why you are getting shooting pain..
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Medicines ..cap pregabalin 75 at night and tab etoricoxib 90 at night
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Rest and physiotherapy of back
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Your symptoms are suggestive of disc problem with some nerve compression , we call it PIVD disease. But it needs to confirmed with further detail history and clinical examination plus some investigations.
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ESR and CRP to rule out some inflammatory pathology
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