I’ve got a problem wth my right leg that I presume is MS but I’m not totally sure!
My right leg started feeling a bit strange on Saturday and it has stayed this way. It feels like when I walk, my left leg knows how to do it but my right leg has forgotten! I can walk but I just feel as if my right leg doesn’t bend like it’s supposed to! It feels almost like it is a robot leg and moves in a simlar, stiff, jerky way to a robot, though noone has commented on it, so maybe I’m imagining it.
It doesn’t particularly hurt but the strangest thing is I’ve noticed that I can only walk at one speed now! I know that sounds really silly, but when I was in a rush, before I would speed up but now I simply can’t, I can only go at one speed.
Could anybody advise me and say that this sounds like MS?
Warning: I’m NOT a doctor. Just another bod with MS. But I’ve had legs doing stupid stuff before, ranging from completely numb feet (I mean couldn’t feel anything - even pain or temperature) to what I used to call “power cuts”, which meant I could walk, or sometimes even run, before my leg would suddenly feel like it’s forgotten how to do it (excellent way of putting it!)
I once got stranded halfway up a flight of stairs, after running for a train at Birmingham New Street. I was undiagnosed, and on my way to a work meeting, so not even sick enough to be off work.
But although I started the stairs alright - running - halfway up, something happened, and I realised I couldn’t go up OR down. I didn’t fall, I stayed standing, but I just had to stand there and grip the handrail, while everyone surged past me.
I missed the train, of course, but after a couple of minutes, regained control of my legs, and was able to proceed slowly and cautiously back down.
It is technically a problem with the nerve signals not getting through properly, so “unresponsive” is right. Your brain is sending a signal saying: “Leg, Do this!”, but the leg is receiving it slowly, or garbled, or not at all, so can’t comply properly.
I’ve almost fallen so many times cos my right leg will remain, foot glued to the floor, regardless of what I thought I was doing. I even had a bad staircase incident due to right knee not bending - so please go careful, I had to have my ear stitched back together after that one Speak to your MS nurse, I get Baclofen to help
Thanks very much for your responses- I suspected as much but I haven’t had problems with my legs/feet for about 10 years. Though I have had the numb feet thing, which is horrible!! I had to walk down 7 flights of stairs with no feeling in my feet, it was terrifying! My hands went white I was holding on so tightly!
I had a problem with my right leg, it felt like I was dragging it along and felt heavy. When I went to see my MS nurse, I mentioned it and with a few other issues and she told me that the dragging of the leg was related to MS. I have only had that feeling once (to date), but I do feel that my right leg is not in sink with the left leg all the time. I don’t know wether this helps you, but it may help someone.
Speak to your MS nurse, I get Baclofen to help