I appreciate your reply. I’m 42 years old, very active and not on birth control pills. The pulses are strong bilaterally, no discoloration or swelling is present. My doctor did examine both legs and no DVT was suspected. There has been no increase in symptoms. My doctor did order an X-ray of the lumbar area which showed degenerative disc disease at L5-S1. She’s diagnosed my numbness as sciatica. However, my understanding of sciatica is pain from an impinged nerve and I am having no pain, just numbness. Is only numbness without pain ever a symptom of sciatica? Or is there another nerve that could be affected and causing this from degenerative discs?
