Hi everyone,
I’d love to hear people’s experience of foot slap. I’ve noticed for a while that my right foot slaps down when I walk, it makes a different sound hitting the pavement to my left. Will this eventually turn to foot drop and will that eventually lead to walking aids and a wheelchair?
The thing I hate most about this cruel illness is the not knowing what’s going to happen next, I don’t like surprises!! 
I know everyone is different and we’ve all had different treatments but what’s the chances of ending up struggling to walk. When I ask my ms nurse I just get the standard no one knows answer 
hi. my 1st PPMS symptom was a heavy left leg. then foot drop. it caused trips, stumbles and serious falls.
yeh, everyone is different.
had PPMS 25 y rs. in wheelchair for 20 full time,
difficult to use hands now.
bladder/bowel no good,
tired now
Jesus keeps me going. ask him to help you.
bouds xx
Hi
I first noticed mine about 2 years ago. There was an incident outside my workplace and whilst running toward the victim my right foot didn’t sprint, it just slapped down hard. Strangely though it’s my left leg tremors that I first noticed; scraping my shoe when lifting my leg to get up a step, tripping, falling. The tremors moved on to my right leg and now left arm. I was referred to neuro surgeons with an 80 week waiting list but then rereffered as urgent to neurologist in March 2022. My appointment as urgent? 21st April 2023. That got cancelled and rescheduled now for 22nd May. I’ve been off work since 15th March 23 because I can’t drive. I have little to no control over the tremors now and can’t gauge the pressure on the accelerator or brakes. I struggle massively with balance, co-ordination and navigation. I work in a primary school so it was becoming impossible to do all those things around 260 children.
You don’t mention whether you are already diagnosed and this is just one of a long list of symptoms you already suffer from. But if this is your first and you are concerned, start the gp referral now.
C
I had MS just after my 21st birthday and it started with pins and needles in my left hand, I was a secretary and a keen gymnast and noticed straight away my hand wasn’t coordinating ,shortly after I started slapping my foot, I did a lot of physio therapy, but my leg just wasn’t listening to my brain, I have worn a lift foot up splint for 37 years and helps me greatly, I no longer fall, but I have achieved loads I love walking and hiking mountains, I always push myself, if I fall I push myself to walk further the next time, try and stay positive, and try not to let this awful condition get the better of you, I swear that mental positivity, keeps you going.
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