Left Leg Joint extreme pain

Giving answes on behalf of my mother.

Patient ID: Sex: Female Age: 63

Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering?

She is suffering with extreme pain in her left leg joint. We can see very minor swelling too.


2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?

little swelling above and below joint towards the inner side


3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?

Extreme pain, sometime pain reduces but most of the times in unbearable


4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?

extreme pain in joint and unable to walk


5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?

started 7 months back. There was a twisting in the leg


6. Which time of the day you are worst?

no particular time but worse while walking or while sleeping. Bit better when sitting.


7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?

walking and standing for long increases the pain. Sometimekeeping ice packs works sometime keeping hot bottle works in bit reliving the pain



8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?

No



9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?

All the time pain


10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.

Normal nature, calm person


- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?

nothing, no different sensation


11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?

No


12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?

Some craving for ice cream or sweet at night. Drink tea 2-3 times a day


13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?

Normal


14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?

Less, Eats less than 2 chapatis in a day.


15. Is there any kind of food which your body cannot stand?

Besan


16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?

Normal to more swetting, more in nech and arms region


17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?

Sometimes bit constipated, sometimes ok


18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?

Sleep is ok. sleep more on left side.


20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?


21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?

Adding the reports along


22. What major diseases are running in your family?

out of 6 sisters 2 were having leg issue and gave up their ability to walk


23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance

Healthy, weight is around 85kg and height is not much. Area above the leg joint is heavy. Thyroid problem and takes altroxin 200mg daily.
Can see some veins in above the joint area.

Attaching MRI report and other prescriptions
[Edited by Kartik1 on 2024-08-24 12:03:53]