Discomfort throughout calf

Please can you help?  Can a sprained ankle lead to discomfort - fluctuating mild pain & tightness in whole lower leg below knee of one leg?  The pain is mild and keeps moving - one minute one side of calf then the other side then the front of leg.  The leg tightness moves from one muscle group to the next-rarely above the knee.  It starts immediately on rising and stops when sleep starts.  Is it possible to have these symptoms as psychosomatic ones?  Is this really all in my head as my partner believes?  Can excessive worry over DVT lead you to feel the symptoms?

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Hi, in DVT pain is consistently felt in calf. Your's is shifting pain which could be due to neurological, inflammatory or vascular origin. Try topical counterirritants along with hot compressions and potassium supplements for a week or so, if it is related to inflammation due to injury, pain will wade off.

For neuropathy related pains, drugs like gabapentin etc are usually prescribed but don't try this drug without doctor's advice. It may be psychosomatic for which nothing much can be done and it will go by itself.