So i sprain my knee carryin my niece across the street I was wearing old shoes with worn out heels That i think now gave me a similiar injury the year before. Since the shoes are uneven that means there is stress on my joints, So I twisted my knee at first it did not hurt much, so I went about business no worries until that night I was sitting down cros legged and i felt a slight pinch. I went to sleep and it felt slightly sore when i woke up to drink water, the following morning I had a limp, i felt a some pain but not enough to disable me, I finished day limping at night Is when the worst came, I woke up in the middle of the night and could not move my leg with out feeling pain I could put weight on it but it was hard to walk it was one step at a time as i walked to the bathroom. when i returned to my room i remembered i had some icy hot and smeered a substantial amount on the knee and around it, I applied so much that it got all over the sheet, that covered me and it could have possibly smeered on my other leg. The Icy Hot was about a year old or so the tube said it will expire this june of 09. The next day I could not got to work I took some advil pm and smeered some more icy hot on my knee and slept that day till 3pm i woke up cause i was hungry, I then Iced the knee all around and today I woke up with red lumps all over the front of my shins and two by my upper leg and that was on the leg that did not hurt on the injured leg my knee had the the lumps they felt like bruise does. I googled "red lumps on legs" and each article said it was blood clots i am 35 years old and never had any shortness of breath even now i dont feel shortness of breath. Could it be that the icy hot creme is old and gave an allergic reaction or is it that I have blood clotsand that gave me a knee injury? I read that blood clot appear on the back of the legs and I dont have the lumps on the back of my legs they are on my shins and on injured knee the other legs had icy hot smered from my bed sheets so what do you think? My other leg could have gotten swollen from the strees I put on it, and i washed my legs where I had the red lumps and they have gone down and are not as painfull, I have more range of motion on the knee I am baffled and such a hyper chondriact as soon as some one tells me i have something I really believe it.