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Numbness, Weakness, Stiffness, Twitches in lower legs and feet

Discussion in 'Support Subforum' started by Sid Hartha, Jan 29, 2026 at 4:30 AM.

  1. Sid Hartha

    Sid Hartha New Member

    Hello: I've been on quite the journey with issues in my lower legs and feet. It all started when I increased my level of activity, - jogging, hiking and walking. One day I woke up and my shins were so tight I could not really walk or stand. I went to the urgent care where they said possible neuropathy and xrays showed stress fractures in the fibula's of both legs. I was told to say off them as much as possible and after some time started using crutches. Things kept getting worse over the next month. Probably due to nocebo as I was worried about the fractures. I got pretty depressed. The tightness moved to numbness in my lower legs, toes, feet which caused issues walking and standing. Sitting became unbearable as my legs below the knee began to twitch and go numb. So they then ran blood tests which were mostly normal except my vitamin b6 was highly elevated so they suspected neuropathy (still have more tests scheduled). I then had them do MRI's of my legs. They in fact showed much to everyone's surprise no stress fractures all but rather prominent anterior tibial artery and distal branches within the digitorum longus. I interpret that to mean increased blood flow and maybe enlarged arteries? I'm still trying to get an answer on what that means exactly. Is it just a normal abnormality as Sarno would say? I guess I still have to get some nerve conduction studies done but it's looking more and more like this could all just be TMS. So I said what's going on in my life. Well that's very revealing - it's nothing short of a total disaster with various stressful things going on all at once, probably the worst crisis of my life. I guess I have to still rule out vascular disease and neuropathy but I guess I am just posting here to get some encouraging responses. Maybe I should get off the crutches and stop limiting my activity level? I should say I've had and beaten various forms of TMS over the years. In this case I really thought there was a structural problem (stress fractures) and so my brain kind of went out of control. Thanks for reading. Be well.
     

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