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Mike Campanella

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Sep 30, 08 - 8:03 PM 		Leg Pain

I get a bad pain in my left butt cheek - It feels like someone has kicked me really hard. That seems to come and go but what is constant is the muscle in the back of my thight and calves. They are constantly tight and feel like a bad charlie horse.

Can anyone suggest the cause and how I might be able to untighten these muscles. I stretch and stretch them but it doe snot seem to help. OIt has been two years now and I want to cream all the time.

I have also gained 15 pounds from lack of activity and I wonder if weight gain makes this condition worse.
Bonnie Cook



Oct 1st, 2008 - 5:22 AM 		Re: Leg Pain

i am sorry to here about your pain. I was told that weight gain will contribute to the pain. i have a unusal situation, i had kinflex disc replacement and the surgery was great. I am having a problem with pain in my right leg. The muscle in my calf and the side of leg never lets up. Could anyone explain why the left side back surgery has my right calf in pain. What can i do for this. bonnie cook
Bonnie Cook



Oct 1st, 2008 - 5:34 AM 		Re: Leg Pain

Mike they have a spray out there called Stop Pain, get it, it really works. Get the spray not the cream.
I do know that the pain is coming from your back not your leg. Also go to your Dr and get these lidoderm patches they work, but that has to be prescribe.The spray will help your leg and the patches will help big time for the butt pain and it will help for the leg. My husband using that and it helps him great. I hope that this can help some what for you too.
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Oct 1st, 2008 - 10:49 AM 		Re: Leg Pain

Unfortunately there is not a lot you can do. I have gone through this in the last 4 months or so... Initially there was an unexpected shot of leg pain - despite the fact that I did not have an accident or fall. I read there might be 3 possible causes - spinal misalignment, inflammation, or muscle problems. I took antiinflammatories and went to my chiro that I visit regularly. However, he was of limited help, and after confirming that all is fine with the spine he referred me to get X-rays. Not a fault on the X-rays either so I put it down to muscle problems, tried kinesiology and then took osteopathy. Perhaps I should have gone to the doctor to get tests straight away. My doctor was great and understood the problem, he got me a CAT scan and found a small prolapse in one lower spine discs. You quite likely have the same problem judging by the description of your symptoms.
If your disc develops a small crack and the liquid gel from inside the disc oozes out it forms a blister on the outside of your spine where it most likely presses on the base of your sciatic nerve. So your leg is perfectly OK (I had the same confirmed recently by both the osteo and masseur when they tested flexibility and other measures), but signals from the nerve indicate "pain" in various regions of your leg. Same is often experienced by amputees (this is called phantom limb syndrome). Anyway, the blister on mentioned above would naturally heal by forming a scab first and then shrinking so it does not exert pressure any more on the nerve, but it takes time. If symptoms are severe or it is obvious that the process cannot be completed naturally then a surgery can remove the bulge and "patch" the prolapse on the disc...


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