Do I Have Intermittent Claudication?

Do you experience cramping in the legs during exercise?

Do you experience a tingling feeling during exercise?

Do you experience numbness during exercise?

Do you experience weakness during exercise?

Do you feel pain during exercise?

Do you have an aching or burning feeling during exercise?

Do you experience foot sores during exercise?

Do you have blotchy or shiny skin on your leg or foot?

Do you experience hair loss on your leg?

Do you often have cold feet?

Do you experience weak arms or legs?

Based on your answers, it is unlikely that you have intermittent claudication. Claudication, or intermittent claudication, occurs when your leg muscles don’t get enough blood during exercise, and this causes pain. It’s a sign that plaque has built up in the arteries and blocks the blood flow (atherosclerosis). It can be a serious health risk.

Based on your answers, you are displaying some signs of intermittent claudication. If you have it in your legs, you can also have it in your heart. Make sure to visit your doctor as soon as possible. Intermittent claudication causes problems during exercise, when the muscles are in need of more blood. The symptoms are felt in the legs, from the feet up to your buttocks. Only when you stop moving, the symptoms will go away.

Based on your answers, you are displaying the signs typically seen among individuals who have intermittent claudication. It’s very important to visit your doctor and discuss your symptoms. Left untreated, you will feel pain in your legs even when you are not exercising. Also, cuts and sores might not heal the way they should, and have a chance to get infected. That can have very serious consequences, so make sure to take your symptoms seriously.