Terrible calf pain acl reconstruction arthroscopy

[anony444]

Got acl reconstruction done past tuesday using allograft. In addition there was some menisectomy also. Overall the surgery seems to me went very well. My incisions are tiny and healing nicely. I have started weight bearing some on the operated knee and except for lots of swelling that appeared yesterday, things are looking good. I do my exercises, I can already flatten my knee, get it to bend some. My first PT is in 4 days next week.

Since yesterday I started developing this intense throbbling pain in my calf and lower leg. Yesterday I was sufficiently scared by it and stayed off my feet, upped painkillers. Today I decided I need to exercise some more, move around and maybe it will subside. And it did.

But it keeps coming back in these intense waves, throbbing pain, kinda knocks my breath out. My knee feels fine, sore but not that painful really. But this pain is the worst pain since the surgery, planning to call my doc tomm. Any ideas what this might be? Leg is swollen some but nothing extraordinary. I still try to do exercises and move around. If its normal I will suck it up, any suggestions on how to alleviate it?