Numb calf and shaking leg

[valeriedl]

My right calf has been numb, feels like it's asleep, for the last few years.

In abot the last year I've started shaking my right leg and or foot, sort of like I'm taping it to music, alot. At first I didn't even realize that I was doing. My mom would tell me to stop doing it and I didn't even realize I was, but now I'm doing it so much that I realize it.

If I think about it I can stop it but once I start thinking about something else it just starts right up again. I'm sitting here on the computer with my legs crossed right now and my right leg is swinging back and forth. I'll stop it then when I start typing it will start up again.

I've talked to my neuro about my calf but he didn't say anything, I'm going to mention my leg shaking on my next visit.

Do you think the two could be related with epilepsy or caused by something else?

 

[Soniag]

if its only started happening in the last year then it might be epilepsy or even medication causing it. you should keep note of how often you do it and then next time you see your neurologist you can show them and then they might be able to sort something out for you

 

[Nakamova]

I think it may be related to your epilepsy. I had something similar for the year leading up to my initial seizures. My left side would tense up all the time. As with you, I could stop it if I focused on it, but I couldn't prevent it from starting again. When I saw the neurologist for my seizures, she didn't think the tensing was significant because I was able to sort of control it, but I feel that it was a symptom of abnormal brain activity, and that my brain was building up to the actual seizures. And since I had the seizures, I've never had the tension thing again -- sort of like water pressure building up for a year, and then the dam breaking and flooding.

In hindsight, I wish I had taken the tensing more seriously, and been more aggressive about finding ways to explain and treat it. I would have taken a magnesium supplement to see if it helped (magnesium plays a big role in relaxing muscles), and taken a closer look at what I was eating, and how I was dealing with physical and emotional stress.

 

[valeriedl]

I haven't had any major medicine changes for a long time. Just maybe a little increase or decrease of one of them, but I'm still on all the same meds. Don't know if that would make any difference or not.

I've had lower back problems for years also. It's usually on the right side, it will either hurt or cramp up if I move the wrong way. I've gone to several different drs about it but none could find anything wrong that is causing it. I've started to see a chiropractor a few months ago and it's helped alot, but it's still there sometimes. I wonder if this could be related to it also because everything seems to be happening on the right side of my body.

Within the last month or so my hips have started bothering me, usually cramping up, but it's usually both sides of my body that it's happening on.