Foot Pain

[COBOB]

OK, I have the "tight calf" clonus thing that drops my feet down sometimes, but I have a new one for me.
Anybody else experience pain from clonus (tightening) of the abductor digiti minimi muscle on the outside (lateral)  bottom of the foot?   Both of my feet are hurting right now.  One of my weird foot pains.  It's kind of causing my 4th and 5th toes to curl down and inward and cramping my feet.  Just started in the last day or so.

Bob

[COBOB]

Thanks for the comments.  Guess I'll have to see what the day brings.  The feet are behaving (for now.)  The calf muscles have not behaved is a month or so,  The saving grace is that I work from home, so I get a big break on the walking.

Bob

[madmelissa]

I have spasticity in my right leg and a clonus at the ankle of that leg. I also have a drop foot (since April) on the right. I should mention that while all of that has been diagnosed, I have not yet been diagnosed with ms.

Clonus is a neurological sign, and is arepetitive reflex motion most often seen in the ankle (it can be seen in the knee and elbow too). My doc found mine when he held the bottom of my foot and flexed it up quickly at the ankle. The ankle started tapping my toes down against his hand over and over.

My doc says my drop foot is caused by my spasticity, because I can somewhat flex my foot at the ankle when I'm sitting, just not when walking. Even so, when I try to flex it while sitting, my toes will pull down very hard. The spasticity can cause spasms in my foot both on the inside and outside edges. It sounds to me like you have a similar thing happening.

I will also sometimes wake in the morning with similar spasms in my foot that make it really hard to walk. I have to keep my right foot on tiptoe as it's impossible to flatten it on the floor when this happens.

So I would guess that your spasticity is causing spasms on the outside edge of your foot, and making your toes pull down. I definitely agree that's it's crazy how much pain such a small muscle can create.

Melissa

[COBOB]

Not sure.  I can fell it pulling and pulsating, but I don't feel any tightness in the extensor muscle on the top of the foot.  I guess it could be spasticity and I just can't feel the contraction of the smaller extensor muscle.

What ever it was the Flexeril and a "complimentary therapy" last night seems to have stopped the contractions about 4 AM.  My feet are sore, but better than yesterday.  Amazing how much pain a muscle that small can cause.

Bob

[essdipity]

Bob, are you sure this is clonus? It sounds more like spasticity to me.

ess