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Old 09-18-2011, 13:55   #1
Blue
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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severe leg cramps

Okay..long story short, I went through weeks of hell until finally I was diagnosed with two strains/sprains along my lumbar and saccral spine and was given a couple of haphazard trigger point injections that don't seem to have done alot of good. Xrays don't show any obvious problems. I don't start PT until this week, but in the meantime I've been having some friggin' painful cramps on my right leg--some in the calf, but mostly in the arch of the foot and down the lower outside of the leg (pulls my foot almost 90 degrees out...ugh). These only happen when lying down, not necessarily asleep. My bloodwork is all normal and the doc said it was tied to my back..any ideas on how to fight these off in the meantime? The ones in my foot worry me because that's also the ankle/foot I had completely reconstructed and I don't want all the work gone to waste by stretching those ligaments out again.
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