Suffering mysterious legs pain for 10 month !!!

Battosaiii · 04-25-2006, 06:23 PM

Hello,
I am new in this forum. I know that lot of people are suffering out there. I am not the man who suffers the most on earth. But I am 23 and I hope this problem wont last forever . If you know something about this kind of problem tell me please!

When it happens ?
It happens while I was walking a lot last summer. I was walking too much. It was hot. I was not drinking water too much in a day. Also i was following my friend
who was walking faster than me. That is why my legs are hurting.

Before it happens
Before it happens i was most of the time at bed because i was ill (it lasts 2 or 3 weeks). I do not know if it is correlated. I do not smoke. I was doing jogging,cycling everyday, karate(3 times in a week) before illness. I was eating healthy food(no Mc

). The bad point may be overtraining ?

ALL exams have been made except IRM
So I have done all the tests possibles(radio(back),scanner(back),bloo d work,echo doppler,electromyogram,.None of them were relevant ! Pain killer and inflammatory doesn't work.Futhermore It is not resless leg,fibromagy... The only test which gives something is radio : minime protusion of the disk l5 s1. I tried to do some medical exercice with my physiotherapist but it doesn't resolve the pain. She concludes the pain I feel doesn't come from the diskl5 s1(back).

Short description of a typical day
I do not intend to cry on myself with this description. If you know or have this kind of pain. Tell me the solution . It would help a young man who may stop his studies if it continues. It would help my social life, mind situation... I would be able to do sports, meet people, girls ! SAVE ME

I am just guessing from anatomy the name of the muscle. I am not
sure that i am right !!

Sunday 23/04/2006

Situation : in the morning I have walked to a store 300 m from my home at 10 am.
I stayed at my flat till 4pm.
At 4pm I go downstairs (2 stages).Then I walked till the road. At this moment
i am starting to feel pain in the gemellus leg ( from little the pain takes
another step medium).

Then I get back to my flat an sit down on a chair. At some point the pain rises
around the top of the thigh. If I get up the pain in the thigh stops. The pain
behind the leg is still here. After few minutes the pain( unpleasant
stingling in the thigh ) appears again. I get up again and it stops when i am
standing on my legs(not completely).

I am not a doctor so muscle name is just my guess from anatomy picture.

After a short walk of 200 hundred meters to go to the shop and 2 stairs to go down :

at standing position : feeling very little stringling behind the thigh(bottom part),
more stringling in the gemellus leg ( in the top part behind the leg).

at sitting position : feeling medium strinling/tightness behind the thigh. Feeling
medium pain in the gemellus leg. But I do feel more the pain in the thigh. It is very
unpleasant to sit.

After this i tried to walk for a while :

73 sec : pain rises a little
110 sec : tightness/stringling rises in gemellus leg
130 sec : very localised sensation( bowl sensation ?) behind the leg at the top.
tightness sensation is rising.
3 minutes : (time to time ( bowl sensation)
4 minutes : pain is rising
6 minutes : tightness and burning sensations
9 minutes : little skin sensation around the knee + tightness and burning sensations

after this little walk sitting position : same but feeling a little better

Before sleeping : feeling burning point behind the leg in the top part.
Burning sensation at few points in the leg. It is very annoying.
Monday 24/04/2006

This day i walk a lot :
starting from 1pm :
_2 stages to go down +50 meteres on foot
_1km bycicle
_ 200 meters on foot in order to go to swimming pool
_50 minutes of swimming pool at around 40 minutes feeling like having a
puncture behind the leg (gemellus muscle) top part
_Then I did 200 meters on foot to go to the library+ 2 stages to go upstairs+
400 meters in building
_1km cycling back home

back home :
usually after swimming I feel releases but after 2 hours in my room It
is getting worse.
In my room i am feeling important stringling/puncture in the top part
behind the thigh.When i pushed the pain rises( annoying sensation).
The pain is more important in the top parts behind the leg at sitting position.
Also i am feeling important tightness at both gemellus muscle. Although it is
more painful in the right leg.
=> result difficult to work at my computer in the sitting position. As a result
I get up often and go to bed early.

Futhermore this night i have big dificulty to get asleep. I am feeling burning
sensation in the legs mostly in gemellus muscle and top part of the thigh.
At this moment i was thinking about leaving the country. And having rest in France.

tuesday 25/04/2006

When I got up the pain has decreased from last night. After 2km cycling
this morning and 400 meters on foot to go on campus i am having bad sensation
in the same areas. However the pain is less painful that yesterday. I would
say it is medium + stringling sensation.

Conclusion

This problem makes me depressed. My family spend lot of money for my education. On september i am expecting to finally have a job and i think i wont be able to do some jobs. For instance jobs where I need to walk would be too difficult for me !! Thanks if you have read till the end

. NEE

duttin · 04-25-2006, 07:05 PM

There is a syndrome called benign cramp syndrome,unknown etiology,its when they classify unknown leg pain and all other test are negative for disorders.They use quinine to treat it,it can be bought at any vitamin store.

Battosaiii · 04-26-2006, 04:02 AM

Does it work ? Do you know some links where I can find more information ?
i want to discuss with some people having the same problem ...

Sharon76 · 04-26-2006, 05:17 AM

Hi Battosaii

From reading your post and the description of where your pain is and the pain travels sounds typical of a condition called sciatica...and quite possibly a strained hamstring as well. Involving the sciatic nerve that runs down the neck all the way to the thigh.

With sciatica the pain is generally worse in the right leg and usually the pain travels upto the gluetus maximus muscle (muscle in the buttock) and sometimes radiates into the lower back area just above the bum. Also with this some people can feel shooting pains going up their leg as soon as they stand on it or walk.

The pain usually gets worse as soon as any pressure is put onto the leg, this can mean pain in walking, sitting or lying on the right side.

The best way and proven way of relieving this is by doing a few things.............keep active, but not as much as what you was doing, keeping active stops the muscle and the sciatic nerve from ceasing up, so it is important to keeep moving or exercising gently, also when you are resting use a hot bottle on the most painful area, take anti inflammatory tablets every 4 hours. Try and avoid sitting for long periods as this makes it worse. Stretching exercises are good to do twice a day usually mid day then before bed.

I hope this has helped or i hope you can relate to some of it.

Sciatica can be very painful and hinders a persons mobility if left for a long time. X rays will not show up sciatic nerve problems or scans as the problem is muscle and tissue putting pressure on the nerve.

Battosaiii · 04-26-2006, 07:03 AM

The problem is, as you can see i keep active in a day . However I tend to be sitting in a chair for long period of time. You are right toward that point.
I did try anti inflammatory : no effect . Anti inflammatory : is it the same as painkiller or does it provide any healing ?
I was streching for a while but i stopped because it has no effect. Futhermore what is the main method to authentify i have a sciatica ?
I did get some info from sciatica and it seems these probleme come from problem with disk. So you mean my probleme come from the minima protusion in disk L5 S1 ?