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Horrible leg pain with fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Aug 30, 2023 | Replies (50)

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A few things-- take 15 minutes bath soaks with about 1 to 1 1/2 cups of epsom salt. Get a hand held massager and massage your legs daily with it. Try biofreeze or a similiar product and apply to your legs. I am a lic. massage therapist certified in medical massage. Glad to answer questions relating to fibeomyalgia.

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How can you soak every 15 minutes? You would be in the tub all day every day

hi i have used the epsom salt bath tub soaks. the baths do help with the leg cramps and stiffness. i try to do it once a day. not each 15 min all day long but 15 minutes once a day.
i dont find that it helps all the time.
stretching helps and i also use tizazidine for muscle spasms which help my legs very much. for me my legs seem to be the worst part of the pain
also the gastro part of the spasms which i didnt know was part of the fibromyalgia until i went for a consult at cleveland clinic.
i wish i would have chosen mayo clinic.
at that time i just chose who was closest and didnt know that may clinic had so much more information about the illness

try taking one tylenol and one ibprofren together it is like a muscle relaxer

reall hard to even get right leg high enough to get into a tub. I use a walk in shower, so I don’t have any advice to help you but my heart is with you. My terriable pain started after I tore my right shoulder AC joint but when they went into take spurs and find other problems they had to take part of collar bone. I had just got the job of my dreams and my company tried everything to keep me employed but after about 3 years of trying to keep me employed, the Fibromyalgia kicked into high gear and seemed was off more than I was their. With the family care act and having a great company to work for and I did have a profession that very few people knew about let alone how to keep the maintain end up. This happened in the early part of the 90’s. They worked with me till 2000 Feb of that year. I had so much pain not only from the Fibromyalgia, had herniated Disk in neck(cervical) XRay’s only showed narrowing and when I finally got a Dr to get me to a MRI they then say all the trouble with neck. When we came to help Dad take care of Mom after she broke her hip, My wife and Son had to do the lifting but we were here when Hurrican Charliee hit Punta Gorda and Charlotte Harbor in 2004 of August, luckless we were here at that terriable on 8/13/2004. After the hurrican I was trying to help Dad clean up the yard and was pulling limbs to front so county would pick up I had one of my dizzy spells and fell and broke my right forearm and a congintal birth defect that I never knew about that caused a growth between bottom of lumbar and sacrilick joint that broke and caused a herniated disk there. So since then has gotten so much worse, it has now causing so much pain in right but and leg, so much to right shin area calf . Now hurts to the point that burns bad on right shin when I drive, just the slight pressure on gas and break peddle makes it real hard to drive unless I am on Interestate with not much traffic where I can use cruise control. So my Doctor thinks that a spacer between L4 & L5 would help a lot. Mainly cause when I use my Fathers walker by leaning over the walker just that small amount really does relieve most of the pain in right but and right leg, especially the shin area, calf. I wonder if anybody has had good or bad results. I have heard both but so far seems about the same, good and bad, not just that but the extremes of good and bad. Anyway as far as the Fibromyalgia after 20 years of nothing but constant pain all I can say is I hope you have better luck than me. By the way this started when I was in high school my Senior year. Aprial of 1970 after a guy hit my 65 year Mustang he was going 55 and I was stopped at a red light. He hit me so far that the Tractor trailer driver that missed me said he didn’t know how he missed me and swore there was 2 people in my car but I was the only person in the Mustang but he kept looking in the ditch and weeds for along time. Just saying.