Swollen Legs And Numbness Posted: 01-10-08 23:32pm
Hi, this is in regards to my 14-year-old
brother. For the past couple years, he
has had an ongoing problem with something
I cannot find the answer for.
Symptoms:
By the way he describes it, and what we
have seen on occasion, after standing for
more than a few minutes, his legs and feet
begin to turn red, starting with the feet
and slowly moving up. This is accompanied
by a tingling sensation all over his
legs/feet. This has gone on for a while,
but the symptoms have gotten a little
worse just in the past few weeks......
Now he says that dark blue (almost purple)
splotches a little smaller than the size
of a baseball start appearing on his legs,
and there is a small but sharp pain in the
back of his upper thigh (unfortunately, I
haven't seen these yet).
The sensation (while standing) has now
started to move up through the Right
Quadrants of his abdomen to his right arm.
Once it gets to his arm, by his account,
the arm immediately becomes numb (not to
the point of dead, but the same feeling as
if he had slept on it). I've done some
research, but I'm kind of at a loss.
We've taken him to a pediatric
cardiologist, and nothing was found on the
echo. His diagnosis was that he was "A
weird kid," and that he would probably
grow out of it. I'm just searching for a
second opinion.
