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Calf Pain for over 3 years with no diagnosis
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Apr 9 1:17pm | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
@blu93
You mentioned you have lost some weight and what your BMI is. Do you have diabetes or are you pre-diabetic? I was reading about how BMI may affect knee joint/muscle connections and MRI results. See this link for more information.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5121968/
I have a high BMI and believe it has caused me many issues with nerves/skin/muscle connections/tendons, etc. Extra fat tissue places more pressure on tissues and joints and may cause micro injury and fluid retention over time.
For example, I had significant hip pain and had a MRI show I have bilateral gluteal tendinopathy plus bilateral hamstring high grade partial tears and have no idea how this happened. I did not have a traumatic fall or accident to cause this. My thoughts are that my weight, sitting for long periods for years due to my desk job, plus my cervical myelopathy spinal cord compression injury (making/controlling movement of limbs more difficult), this caused pressure/compression injuries to my muscles/tendons over time. I am also hypermobile which may have played a role, too.
Do you have hypermobile joints?
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My Fingers, Wrists, hips and knee are hyper mobile. my elbows are not. I score a 7 out of nine on the hyper mobile test.
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I have not had blood sugar testing since loosing weight but my fasting sugars had been in between 100 and 110 with an A1C of about 5. when they were testing me for small fiber neuropathy last summer they had me do a test where after fasting I had to drink a certain amount of a special orange drink and sit for 2 hours to check how my body was using insulin. Type 2 is 199 or more after 2 hours, mine was 194. That was one of the reasons I started working on loosing weight.