Stabbing pains in leg veins?

No idea what could be happening, but any pain or clots in the legs should be examined immediately. Blood has to travel through the legs down to the feet and then back up to the heart so leg veins are all so important.

I wouldn’t wait until tomorrow if this was me. I head back to the ER.

DVT’s blood clots are extremely dangerous because if they come loose they can travel to the heart or brain and cause stroke or a heart attack. I think you might consider going back to the ER. Look up DVT also, see if your symptoms match. It might be a nerve and not the vein? Although, you seem to feel strongly about the location, I don’t mean to question what you are concerned about. It isn’t unusual to be nauseas and dizzy when you are in a lot of pain.

Are you taking heparin?

Here is a link for DVT, you can see symptoms on it. It mentions diagnosis with ultrasound, which made me remember that ultrasound was used to evaluate my dad’s DVT. Cheaper and less radiation than a CT. Maybe they use CT for diagnosis, and only ultrasound to monitor? Not sure.

Definitely could be a clot stuck. Chest in your pain? Take some aspirin, thin your blood! Your symptoms sound like a heart attack could be right around the corner. Stay calm, drink some warm beverages. Until you contact your physician that is. Good luck!

Don’t settle for a medical internist or just any family practice doctor. You would be smart to see a heart and circulatory system expert .

Speaking as a family practice doctor, we are perfectly capable of taking care of problems like this. In any case, you need to see your doctor.

@Rarebear As you may know, some family practice doctors are better than others. I trusted the decision that my family practice doctor made about my injured leg 4 years ago but he let me down. I severely tore (ruptured) 2 of my right hamstring muscles in a slip fall 4 years ago. I presented my injury to my family practice doctor within 2 hours of the injury as well as 2 other tomes within 2 weeks of the injury with a truly massive hematoma and swelling. He never touched my leg but simply observed it from across the room. He told me to just be patient as injuries such as this take a long time to heal. Unfortunately for me I was very patient. 18 months later my injured hamstring muscles were only about half the strength of my healthy hamstring muscles in my left leg. And so at that time I presented myself to my family practice doctor and requested a referral to see a sports medicine/orthopedic doctor. The orthopedic doctor told me that it is too bad that you didn’t come to see me much earlier as he could have done something to help me. What I learned for this is not to trust my family practice doctor 100%. He is a good guy but he is not a specialist at anything. In the future I’ll use him for general health issues and as a referral agent for my special needs.

An update: I did go back to the hospital (urgent care) and was checked for blot clots and blot clotting problems, but thankfully there were none. However, I am still (3 weeks later) getting many stabbing pains in my veins in my left and right legs, and around my stomach. It is always where I see a vein protruding. I saw someone in internal medicine and he said, well, there are no inflammatory markers and he gave me a blank stare and extremely little compassion, and barely looked at my veins. For several hours a day I am getting these stabbing pains along my veins, especially if I am walking much. I am not sure what to do next. I do have an ultrasound appt in 2 weeks times…..

@kwatts Thanks for the update. Must be horribly frustrating for you. How did they check for blood clots without an ultrasound?

When you say stabbing is it like pin prick sharp pains? Or, covers more area like a knife blade?

I am searching the web for info. on a pain that developed for me in the last 24 hours. It is clearly a small superficial being on my lateral right side lower leg. It follows a small thin non-bulgy looking or obvious varicosity but clearly outline vein. It has repeated at odd moments throughout this day. Here are the episodes: after an intense yoga class was time #1. While sitting talking with a friend after some fun dancing #2 . And then now early in the morning after sleeping for 7 hours. It is not severe, but it feels stinging and along that superficial line of the vein for about 6 inches. Sharp & Stingy is how I would describe it. I am a celiac and probably have been getting small exposures for the last 4 weeks to gluten contamination. Gluten does effect my circulation and skin more strongly than digestive symptoms for me. I am concerned and searching for web ideas of how to best take care of this warning sign. Any more ideas so appreciate all your experiences and thinking.