I've got a strange sharp pain on the inside of my lower calf, about a 3 inch line stretch running sort of along the soleus on the left leg.
It hurts to walk to the point where I limp. I always wear trainers for a sevear overpronation (have done for 2 years now) and when I have my trainers on walking is alot easier and sometimes pain free. Unfortunetly I can only afford one pair of trainers (and I'm sure I'd get spoken to if I began to wear my trainers everywhere!) so I keep my trainers for fitness/gym work alone. I wear basic flat shoes around otherwise and it hurts alot more just to walk around. If I try to run in my normal shoes -even 10 meters for a bus, I cannot do it, the pain is too much.
Running is something else- I hate not being able to run so get mad fits where I suddenly decide to run 11km an hour, the first 5 minutes are AGONY! and I don't always get much further then that. In the past I'd run an hour or so, now 5 minutes is too painful?! After about 5 minutes it normally feels a bit easier, after 15 I'm normally OK, but I get to about 40 minutes and the pain suddenly comes back MUCH worse then before and doesn't go for some days.
It feels like I have a large knot in my leg, right where the spot is. If I press it it does hurt alot but there is no swelling or brusing at all. Its almost as if someone has kicked me on my lower calf with steel tapped toe boots but theres just nothing to see!
I should add that I don't just jump into running, its normally mid way through a workout, say 30 minutes X-trainer, 20 minutes bike, 10 minutes tepper, 10 mins rowing (in any order) and running after that. But no matter how far into my workout I chose to run (if I do run) its always the same: first 5 minutes of agony, 10 minutes slightly easer. But anything over 15 minutes gives me pain the next day. I do warm up and cool down every time I work out and workout about 5 days a week 1-2 hrs a time. I know how to experience pain: I workout to a heart rate of av 75% according to my heart rate moniter and max out at 99% daily. I can do pain, but this shin thing is something else!
I have no idea what to do! I went to my GP who sent me for a scan: nothing showed up and so I was told I do not have shinsplints. I do not have a fracture and I should be fine. Only I'm not. I'm in agony when I walk in normal shoes or run full stop.
Ice, heat, muscle rub...tried them all. Its been about 6 months now and I don't know what to do! There is no swelling btw and I have had my gait checked many times. I have also been told by a few personal trainers that I have a good running technique. I have not had any falls or breaks in the past that would at all relate to this either.
Please help or suggest anything if you can!!
It hurts to walk to the point where I limp. I always wear trainers for a sevear overpronation (have done for 2 years now) and when I have my trainers on walking is alot easier and sometimes pain free. Unfortunetly I can only afford one pair of trainers (and I'm sure I'd get spoken to if I began to wear my trainers everywhere!) so I keep my trainers for fitness/gym work alone. I wear basic flat shoes around otherwise and it hurts alot more just to walk around. If I try to run in my normal shoes -even 10 meters for a bus, I cannot do it, the pain is too much.
Running is something else- I hate not being able to run so get mad fits where I suddenly decide to run 11km an hour, the first 5 minutes are AGONY! and I don't always get much further then that. In the past I'd run an hour or so, now 5 minutes is too painful?! After about 5 minutes it normally feels a bit easier, after 15 I'm normally OK, but I get to about 40 minutes and the pain suddenly comes back MUCH worse then before and doesn't go for some days.
It feels like I have a large knot in my leg, right where the spot is. If I press it it does hurt alot but there is no swelling or brusing at all. Its almost as if someone has kicked me on my lower calf with steel tapped toe boots but theres just nothing to see!
I should add that I don't just jump into running, its normally mid way through a workout, say 30 minutes X-trainer, 20 minutes bike, 10 minutes tepper, 10 mins rowing (in any order) and running after that. But no matter how far into my workout I chose to run (if I do run) its always the same: first 5 minutes of agony, 10 minutes slightly easer. But anything over 15 minutes gives me pain the next day. I do warm up and cool down every time I work out and workout about 5 days a week 1-2 hrs a time. I know how to experience pain: I workout to a heart rate of av 75% according to my heart rate moniter and max out at 99% daily. I can do pain, but this shin thing is something else!
I have no idea what to do! I went to my GP who sent me for a scan: nothing showed up and so I was told I do not have shinsplints. I do not have a fracture and I should be fine. Only I'm not. I'm in agony when I walk in normal shoes or run full stop.
Ice, heat, muscle rub...tried them all. Its been about 6 months now and I don't know what to do! There is no swelling btw and I have had my gait checked many times. I have also been told by a few personal trainers that I have a good running technique. I have not had any falls or breaks in the past that would at all relate to this either.
Please help or suggest anything if you can!!
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