Leg and foot cramps: Any advice?
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49 years old, female.
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Leg and foot cramps: Any advice?
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Hi, I'm asking for someone who started losing feeling in their right leg from the back about a year ago. They were diagnosed with peroneal nerve palsy or something similar. I don't have any medical paperwork handy, so I'm just looking for some general advice.
Walking became harder and harder, and they were bounced from doctor to doctor without anyone finding an answer.
Then, they used some kind of probes in the leg to measure muscle impulse strength during contraction, and the results were apparently terrible.
They tried physical therapy, acupuncture, and seeing specialists. An MRI was done, and they were seen at a clinic in Washington, D.C., called Sunce, if I recall correctly. They were told surgery wasn't necessary and to just stick to exercises. But things kept getting worse every single day despite following the routine strictly. Eventually, they were referred to a clinic in San Francisco, where they underwent a disc nucleoplasty.
A few days after that, it seemed like things were improving because the pain actually went away.
But now, extremely intense and painful cramps have started in the other, healthy leg...
The muscle on the affected leg has atrophied significantly, yet they were told that even after the nucleoplasty, the condition probably won't change.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do next? It clearly feels like everything is just spiraling downhill.
And now we're all terrified that the other leg will start losing sensation too.
In the injured leg, the first symptoms were identical to these massive cramps...
They took the calcium, Magnesium, and other supplements prescribed by the doctors, and they are still taking them, so it doesn't seem like a mineral deficiency.
Walking became harder and harder, and they were bounced from doctor to doctor without anyone finding an answer.
Then, they used some kind of probes in the leg to measure muscle impulse strength during contraction, and the results were apparently terrible.
They tried physical therapy, acupuncture, and seeing specialists. An MRI was done, and they were seen at a clinic in Washington, D.C., called Sunce, if I recall correctly. They were told surgery wasn't necessary and to just stick to exercises. But things kept getting worse every single day despite following the routine strictly. Eventually, they were referred to a clinic in San Francisco, where they underwent a disc nucleoplasty.
A few days after that, it seemed like things were improving because the pain actually went away.
But now, extremely intense and painful cramps have started in the other, healthy leg...
The muscle on the affected leg has atrophied significantly, yet they were told that even after the nucleoplasty, the condition probably won't change.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do next? It clearly feels like everything is just spiraling downhill.
And now we're all terrified that the other leg will start losing sensation too.
In the injured leg, the first symptoms were identical to these massive cramps...
They took the calcium, Magnesium, and other supplements prescribed by the doctors, and they are still taking them, so it doesn't seem like a mineral deficiency.