I am almost 48 years old. I live in the up of michigan where we have extremely cold winters that keep me inside my home most of the year. We moved up here just 4 years ago and it was 2 years ago that I started having this problem. I can only imagine it may have something to do with the lack of excersize.
Anyway, I am having major problems with being able to so much as walk up our street without suffering from the most excrutiating cramps on the front of my shins and ankles later that day. The cramps are so bad that I had actually developed a panic disorder from it. Now, I was recently diagnosed (after and grand mal seisure) with a cavernous angioma of the right temporal lobe, but I don't think it has anything to do with these god awful cramps. The thing is that it seems that if my legs are out of shape from sitting around inside too much, i'm in a bad postion because now i'm afraid to walk anywhere. I'm also afraid to stoop down to pick something up.
I walked uptown day before yesterday to help my husband with a fundraising event he has going on, and I am still in agony from the walk. I have noticed that I haven't been able to lift my toes up when I walk and I feel incredibly unstable or out of balance. I have tried over the counter leg cramp medicie with quinine. I have tried xanax, partially because it calms me down when I feel a cramp starting, and I have tried motrin for pain, drinking tons of water, and I use my foot bath to massage and warm them, but nothing seems to make them better. I'm a mess and feel that I can't even support my husbands cause when I am not able to walk.
Can someone please help me. This whole thing is scaring me a bit and I already have the brain thing to worry about. This is just too much.