I'm a 43year old male. I've started working out, under the supervision of gym trainer. and at the same time, have been doing pysical therapy for an old calf injury, for 3 months. My legs generally feel much better, until 2 weeks ago.
On that day, I was doing my normal lower body routine, including an exercise called the 'booty builder', where you have a belt around your waist and then do a bridge, lifting up some weights. I had possibly progressed too quickly on this machine, as I had added an extra 20 lbs that day. I had no pain or discomfort during it. I had also done an ab workout at home, which is very comprehensive and exhausting. I've done it maybe 20 times without issue.
Well, the next day I had extreme calf soreness and pain and tingling in my peroneal area and shins. After modest improvement by a week later, I had started back on some lighter leg exercses, and also a yoga ball bridge and the ab exercises again. The next day, I realized I had re-aggravated my sypmptoms.
It was at this point I did research and realized it was not normal muscle or tendon issues, but the sciatic nerve. It's been an0ther week, but there has not been much improvement. After much ChatGPT questioning, I feel this is a temporary sciatic inflammation, probably due to one of the aforementioned exercises, though it's a bit mysterious to me that they caused this. The other possibility is that TMS is using this excuse as a trigger for a new syptom.
The most likely possibility, IMO, is that the nerve inflammation is pysical, but TMS could still use this to make it chronic and make me think I now have sciatica to deal with all the time. I would like some advice, on if people think my current symptoms are TMS. More importantly, it would give me confidence to know that all long term sciatica symptoms are actually TMS, from people's experience here, and that will give me confidence to know that any non-TMS issue I'm having should only be temporary.
Final note: I had similar lower leg tingling and pain after many years ago playing basketball for the 1st time in 15 years. It took about a month to feel normal again, but all the syptoms went away.
On that day, I was doing my normal lower body routine, including an exercise called the 'booty builder', where you have a belt around your waist and then do a bridge, lifting up some weights. I had possibly progressed too quickly on this machine, as I had added an extra 20 lbs that day. I had no pain or discomfort during it. I had also done an ab workout at home, which is very comprehensive and exhausting. I've done it maybe 20 times without issue.
Well, the next day I had extreme calf soreness and pain and tingling in my peroneal area and shins. After modest improvement by a week later, I had started back on some lighter leg exercses, and also a yoga ball bridge and the ab exercises again. The next day, I realized I had re-aggravated my sypmptoms.
It was at this point I did research and realized it was not normal muscle or tendon issues, but the sciatic nerve. It's been an0ther week, but there has not been much improvement. After much ChatGPT questioning, I feel this is a temporary sciatic inflammation, probably due to one of the aforementioned exercises, though it's a bit mysterious to me that they caused this. The other possibility is that TMS is using this excuse as a trigger for a new syptom.
The most likely possibility, IMO, is that the nerve inflammation is pysical, but TMS could still use this to make it chronic and make me think I now have sciatica to deal with all the time. I would like some advice, on if people think my current symptoms are TMS. More importantly, it would give me confidence to know that all long term sciatica symptoms are actually TMS, from people's experience here, and that will give me confidence to know that any non-TMS issue I'm having should only be temporary.
Final note: I had similar lower leg tingling and pain after many years ago playing basketball for the 1st time in 15 years. It took about a month to feel normal again, but all the syptoms went away.
