Question about stiffness and foot

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lydia

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I have issues with stiffness/spasticity. In the past month I noticed something felt different about my gait and I finally realized, duh! I am walking on the outside of my right foot. It isn't like the foot is bent in some awful angle; it is just that the inside part doesn't touch the ground and the big toe doesn't touch the ground when I walk. It is very noticeable when I walk barefoot (barefoot=awful balance). If I consciously think about it, I can make the foot flat. I am in limbo diagnosed-wise and have been waiting for whatever ails me to declare itself with some obvious symptom. I don't think THIS is that final piece to the puzzle, but it is interesting. Does anyone here experience something similar?

Thanks for reading,

Lydia
 
Hey Lydia,
Based on past experience, you should get that looked at by a doctor . I messed up my knees and hips by compensating.

of course , you might have a hunchback servant that say "Wok dis way mastah"

Glen
 
Lydia, my husbands symptoms began with a numb foot which later followed with a gait. While walking his left foot would almost slap down on the ground while the right remained normal. He later had a brace made to compensate (as Glen mentioned) which was made of hard plastic and went under his foot and fully in his shoe and up his calf. That was before his diagnosed and he never really used the brace much as it was so hard to get it and his foot and his sock into a pair of shoes!
 
Definitely should get checked out by a doctor.
Good luck!
 
Hey Lydia,
Based on past experience, you should get that looked at by a doctor . I messed up my knees and hips by compensating.

of course , you might have a hunchback servant that say "Wok dis way mastah"

Glen

I second that! Especially if you are progressing slow it is important not to destroy your orthopedics. My progression used to be insidious and I literally walked my hips to deformation. On an x-ray they look twisted. Now that I am a powerchair user they are my main source of pain. I was an idiot, don't be me, push for assistive help with that.
 
lydia,theres no harm in getting it checked out...........who knows it may just be that final piece of jigsaw.
personally,my left foot does turn out...............can not walk at all if i try to straighten it,it just turns back out again. a fixed permanent spasm.
i was supposed to go to orthopedics for a brace but never went,being at home most of the time i did not bother.



tokahfang.
i too compensated the spastic gait with my hips and now my hip/girdle area(especially right hip which i think compensated for my weaker left leg)is very weak.
it sucks when your healthier body parts get dragged down with the rest
 
Hi Lydia- I do not have a diagnosis, either, but I do have increased tone in my calves and spasticity and now I am having some weakness in my ankles. The doctor recommended baclofen for me, but I declined because I can manage at present state. I have fallen twice in the past month and badly sprained my ankle two weeks ago after falling down the stairs. My ankles/feet are doing the opposite-- turning in, and the podiatrist said I was compensating for that by unconsciously shifting my weight to the outer part of the foot. I was not aware that I was doing this, only that my feet/ankles did not feel right and the ankle kept giving out; the podiatrist watched me walking and said I was pronating and my ankles were turning inward. The shoe orthotics do help stabilize my foot, but I do not wear them all the time and I have to be careful walking on uneven surfaces when I do not have them in, or up and down stairs.

Have no idea what is wrong with me at this point. due for a six-month follow-up with neuro in June. negative EMG last June on both legs and one arm.

I read somewhere that you are having trouble with stiffness and pain when driving. Me, too. My ankles have trouble with the up and down of the brake, gas, and clutch pedals, especially on longer drives. have to pull over and stop and stretch the feet out on a drive longer than an hour.

I would advise getting the orthotics-- they really help when worn with a more stable, constructed shoe, especially one like a low ankled boot. I think you can also get special orthopedic shoes, but I have not gone that route yet. not sure what I will do when sandal season arrives. Flip flops are out, that's for sure.

A podiatrist or orthopedist should be able to help.

Sandra
 
Thank you all for your responses. I recently got one of those devices that tells you how many steps you take. I am curious how many steps I can take until I am feeling like crap and just need to sit down and not move the rest of the day. This foot thing is pretty uncomfortable, so I will try and suck it up and go back to doctors. Gosh I hate going, I always come home aggravated.

Lydia
 
hi lydia, seems like you might be getting closer to some answers, I also have problems woth what seems like weak anlkle mostly in the later in the evening. I am still on my quest to find out what is wrong with me. Somehow I think everything is all connected, the weakness, nubnessa the stroke in my eye, I probably have a super super rare imuune disorder that will not be diagnosed till my autopsy, I am scgheduled for a temporal lobe biopsy this monday to r/o Giant cell enteritis, my Gp is almost 100% sure I don't have it but I do not want to leave any stone unturned, I am also scheduled for another emg in april but it is to see if I have a nueropathy not als, but maybe it will show something, I am still on predisone as once I am off it for awhile my sed rate goes through the roof. I totally understand I have searching so long for answers up until about 3 years ago, never really had a medical problem of any kind, now everything in the world is wrong with me, still trying to adjust to a vision loss of 60% in one eye. The retina specialist is not sure it will ever come back. Maybe ther are just some conditions that are so so rare you have be at deaths door to get a diagnosis, good luck, margaret
 
Margaret, a temporal lobe biopsy? That sounds beyond dreadful! I sure hope you find something out soon, your path to a diagnosis has been truly awful. Mine is merely annoying and inconvenient and uncomfortable. I went 15 years without seeing a doctor; didn't even go for the follow-up after my son was born (17 years ago now), and now to be all shot to h*** , well, what can I say? You know the drill.

Wishing you an uneventful procedure Monday, and some answers (that can all be fixed with a magic pill).

Lydia
 
not as bad as it actually sound it is only a 30 minute procedure done inder twilight sleep, I get to the hospital by 7 out by 12, they only take a small portion of the artery from the temporal lobe at least that how it was explained to me, next is a a thallum sress test as they still do nknow where the clot came from, was told I would be on plavix for the rest of my life. Sure hope it does not happen again, so far I am just being told it was random, see my retina specialist on tuesday, keep me posted if they find anything out about your latest symptom, sounds very close to mine, margaret
 
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