I've had teeny little spasms in my toes or in my arches but something happened lately that makes me wonder if this is a new symptom for me. Over the past few months I've been awakened (or even up waking up normally in the morning) by hard 'automatic' stretches that seem to lock up and won't relax unless I make a conscious effort to not fight them.
You know how dogs or cats look when they have a realllllly hard stretch? That's how I looked. And about a week after that kind of stretching started with me, my right knee started having severe pain. I've had the knee Xrayed and my doctor wants an MRI done on it now, but since making a conscious effort to not fight the stretch (thus, allowing it to end and relax naturally, w/o control) the pain in my knee has stopped. I wonder if fighting the stretch/locked-up muscles caused me to sprain a muscle or ligament in that knee?
I don't know what larger spasticity looks like....meaning, anything larger than a little spasm in a toe or my arches. What is it like when your legs have it? Trying to get a better understanding of what is happening here and whether or not it's an MS-thing or not.
You know how dogs or cats look when they have a realllllly hard stretch? That's how I looked. And about a week after that kind of stretching started with me, my right knee started having severe pain. I've had the knee Xrayed and my doctor wants an MRI done on it now, but since making a conscious effort to not fight the stretch (thus, allowing it to end and relax naturally, w/o control) the pain in my knee has stopped. I wonder if fighting the stretch/locked-up muscles caused me to sprain a muscle or ligament in that knee?
I don't know what larger spasticity looks like....meaning, anything larger than a little spasm in a toe or my arches. What is it like when your legs have it? Trying to get a better understanding of what is happening here and whether or not it's an MS-thing or not.
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