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378497 tn?1232143585

What is with the popcorn legs?

I've had a "pop" here and there in my life, you know when your calf twitches or something. But lately...maybe in the last week or two?...my legs, especially my left, and the bottom of my feet in the arch are just POPPING, specifically after I've been on them for awhile or exercised. What is UP with that? It feels like kernels of corn are popping just under my skin, all along my calf and the sides and soles of my feet.

Anyone else have popcorn legs? I thought I'd seen a post about this, but I searched and couldn't find anything. What is it? Is it twitches? Big ones that you can see? They don't "wriggle" the way I've seen fasciculations described-- they "pop"!

Bio
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1475492 tn?1332884167
I get over it in about 10 minutes too. It is the oddest sensation!!! I have been pushing through it because I also think its benign. I am a woman on a mission and going to get through this 10k training unless I flare badly which I don't anticipate. :p positive thinking!

Tammy, It feels like it could be but I do not see or feel the muscle move like my twitches or jerks. It really "feels like" popcorn is popping under your skin. It doesn't hurt, just feels really really weird. I think it's sensory when you get over heated from a spinal lesion. That's my best guess.
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I have the same thing.  I lay down and my legs feel like nerves jumping or popcorn popping under skin.  
Same here my right calf muscle woke me up popping at 6 am this morning. I rubbed them with muscle cramp foam and they calmed down a little but still there. I do have RLS that I've managed to keep under control by removing all caffeine from life. But then I got this vibration or buzzing in my feet which my acupuncturist fixed and now I have this popcorn popping uhggg clearly my body is trying to tell me something I just don't know what! Time for more tests I guess!
How are you all now?
738075 tn?1330575844
I get this every time I go for a hike, or a long walk (even on the flats).  I have no idea what it is, but I have a feeling it's pretty benign.  I get over it in about 10 minutes.
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2015036 tn?1332997788
Do you think it could be muscle fasciculations?  That's what I've always thought they were.

**Nice to see you back!
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1475492 tn?1332884167
This is an old post but I am getting this popcorn sensation when I run or workout my lower half pretty significantly. It was one of my first symptoms I described to my doctor.

Well, I am trying to train to run a 5k and it's back. Has anyone figured out what this is? any theories?

Thanks  
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333672 tn?1273792789
I get some kind of localized vibrating/throbbing kind of thing that doesn't look like it's moving. Mostly in my upper right thigh, but sometimes around my right knee or a toe on my left foot. I think this used to happen once in a while, but recently I've been getting this quite a bit (it's happening right now in fact), usually only when I'm sitting. It seems to go away if I move, but when I stop it comes back again. It's not exactly popping, though, in that it feels like a bigger area is moving all together, so I don't know how much this helps.

sho
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146298 tn?1258712247
That is a great way to describe the feeling. I get it esp when I lay down or walk for a little bit.
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152264 tn?1280354657
I posted in the past (somewhere; maybe another forum) about what I named "popcorn butt."

As soon as I'd return from my neighborhood walk (40 minutes of moderate to fast walking), when I would sit down or just stand still, after a few seconds all the muscles across my rear and adjacent areas would start "popping" as you describe--it felt just like popcorn popping, fast random twitches across that whole area. It would stop after a minute or two, maybe.

I don't get that anymore, perhaps because I can no longer walk fast.

Nancy
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378497 tn?1232143585
MCBCON--sounds just like mine.

Lu--at least it's all fruity. ;-)

Bio
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398059 tn?1447945633
Mine is in the muscle.  It is not a noise, but rather the feeling poping.
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572651 tn?1530999357
I don't think mine is the joint itself - there is intense popping motion that goes along with the sound.  Like a rubber band that is stretched tight and then plinked ... I have crackly knees too but this is totally different.  Too bad you don't have the special effects of the sound to go with the sensations.  

After I hit the post button it registered with me that we're probably talking apples and oranges here,
Lu
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378497 tn?1232143585
Lu, I don't know if it's the same thing? Yours sounds like joints--and my knees are unquestionably crackly. But this is popping (no sound, just feeling) in the muscles, always in these specific places. Is yours in muscle around your knee?

Bio
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572651 tn?1530999357
Bio, Funny you wrote about this because I do have popping in my knee.  It happens in particular with certain Tai Chi positions, but not all the time.  I wrote about this in my journal about my first tai chi classes.  

It goes away, but tonight it was back again.  My knee is not strained, dislocated or otherwsie injured but it makes this very loud "pop, pop, pop" sound much like the popcorn your described. AND everyone in class can hear my knee going off!


I wonder if someone else has this problem or if it even is a problem?
Lu
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398059 tn?1447945633
Sounds like how my legs feel when I forget to take my meds on time.  This feeling is wha I get a little while before the big time pain kicks in.  The pop corn feeling tells me that I better hurry and take my drugs.
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