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Sporadic Calf Muscle Soreness and Stiffness in both legs at once

I am not sure if anyone has experienced this.. for the past 6 months I have been experiencing a sore tightness in both of my calf muscles sporadically. It does not seem to be related to exercise since I can go for a run and feel nothing... but then I can be sitting and all of a sudden my calves (always both at the same time) start to ache and feel tight. Sometimes they feel so sore that I can almost not walk. Water seems to help on occasions. I can't understand why all of a sudden I may be becoming dehydrated so that doesn't seem logical...

The aches come and go without warning and sometimes it's much worse than other times. There have also been times when I may not experience any aching for several days.

My doctor, general practitioner, has no explanation. I am thinking that I need to see someone else... any ideas? Endocrinologist?

Any ideas would be great.
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Hello, I have been having excruciating leg pain for months and about to go out of my mind with it. I do have such a deep tissue pain that goes down to the bone, it feels. It feels like all the veins are being ripped out sometimes and then, it cramps, burns, stings, ACHES all the time. Both legs feel tight..tensed up, like all my muscles stayed flexed and I can't take Flexeril..because it makes me vomit. It must be due to an allergy or something. I can't take Demoral either, it does me the same way. I have no choice, but to take xanax for the tremors, spasms and contractions that I feel on a daily basis.
These tremors stay with me a lot too and it feels like I am frigid, but I am not cold in the least bit. My feet feel cold and stay that way pretty much of the time, but I can't stand heat...like temperatures. I keep my room at 65 degrees...because I sweat so bad sometimes. I don't have diabetes, been checked. I do have some kind of Saliva problem, to where I am numb on my face and can't feel when, I have some that gets at the corners of the mouth.  
Does anyone have a clue what this is? I know that I have Adrenal Insufficiency.(Docs think Primary and Secondary at the same time) It might be the Saliva problem, but not ALL the leg pains. I have been dx'd with Fibro too...but this leg pain is so excruciating and all the time that it can't be that. I have noticed ONE important factor..I think to all of this. IT started in my feet and now, after a year or so...has moved upward. IT has ascended. When, I feel the pain now...it has reached my forearms and biceps...Please, don't say ALS. I know that it is probable. :(
I also have 5 disk herniations with hypertrophy in my T7-T12. I have been hit by a nerve block there and ever since that and the C5-C6 spinal diskectomy..I have only gone downhill. I really felt that they did something to me, when I had that nerve block. I jumped like a bolt of lightening had struck me. The room got deathly quiet too...right after he hit me. I think they call it a "Wet Tap"..not sure.
I just wish that I knew where IT was coming from. Could it be that I am gluten sensitive? I just had a Colon Scope and Endoscope and everything was fine...just an ulcer. I do have a symptom that is bothering me as well...and that is I get a coating on my tongue that is white and when, I brush my teeth...I nearly choke at the phlegm or saliva..or what I think, it is...Cerebrospinal fluid. IF, that is possible...but it is foamy looking and so white. Sometimes, it is clear and white and foamy. IT is scaring me because I gag and can't even talk sometimes.
IF, it weren't for my legs I would be up and helping others...like I want to do, but...I can't get a clue to what this could be with so many symptoms. I couldn't touch it because there are so many...so, not mentioning all of them. I do have blurry vision/w an aura all the time. I have head pain and sometimes excruciating migraines..I burn, cramp, experience numbness, pins/needles, swelling in abdomen, kidney incontinence(bad-wear a pullup), have lung congestion, wheezing...and have trouble going to the restroom, not 1...etc. :(
I am so young with 2 young men that need me. I am sorry that I am all over the place, but I am all over the place. I have pain from the tip of my head...to the bottom of my feet..ughh it is just miserable all the time. By the way...I do smoke and have since, I was 35 from a stressful situation. It is hard to quit smoking..especially, when they don't fill the chantix you have needed for months. Having Addison's is another reason...we don't suppose to have ANY stresss...right...no stress. I can see that happening. :o
I just wish someone had some info...any info.because this leg pain is really making me feel at the bottom of the rope. I know that I am complicated...even my own primary Doc said that I was the most complex patient he has. :P
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Please let me know what you took, I am very interested in the blend and kind of vitamins and minerals, I have the same problem.  please email me, rebecca_r9***@****
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6198618 tn?1379531441
might have artitis??
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I had horrible calf pain for about 1.5 years. I tried orthotics, custom orthotics, trigger point therapy, physical therapy and ART.

I went and saw a chiropractor / nutritionist. He performed a test called Muscle Response therapy. Turns out, I developed an aversion to wheat. I stopped eating wheat and took a few supplements and I haven't had calf pain ever since.

I'm still trying to recover from Plantar Fasciitis...I'm thinking it'll be easier now that my calf pain is gone.
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Can you tell me if you believe the supplements of CAL.MAG.Zinc helped you..my husband was hit bad Saturday,his calf is swollen and the cramp is from hades.Doctor believes the Crestor did it..but no help on how to reverse the problem
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My husband is going through the same problems,have you found anything to help reverse the damage,the Doctor says Crestor causal
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