I'm going to a Neurologist for a nerve
study Tuesday but in the meantime, I
thought I would pick everyone's brains on
the forum.
Last July I started training for the
Houston Marathon. Everything was fine
until December when my left leg felt funny
during a race. For the next few weeks, I'd
be able to run ok until about 5 miles into
my run. Then my hamstring would feel
funny-kind of like something was pulling
at it. I ran the marathon and did ok but
had that same feeling in my leg early in
the marathon. Around mile 17, my whole
upper leg was pounding. After the
marathon, I went to a sports doc who said
I had a hamstring tear. At that point, I
couldn't run a mile without pain and my
leg still felt funny. He sent me to
Physical Therapy 3x a week and said I'd be
running in a couple weeks. After 7
sessions, I felt worse then I did before I
started so I went to a deep tissue massage
therapist for the next few weeks and
didn't get relief there. Found another
sports doc (2 1/2 months later). This doc
did an MRI and said there was no tear and
maybe I had a nerve problem causing my leg
to feel like that.
I have no shooting or stabbing pain, no
tingling, nothing unbearable except that I
can't run any more than a mile before my
leg starts feeling funny. I have some
discomfort in my hamstring (from the top
all the way down to my knee) but no glute
pain or calf pain.
I have some mild lower back pain in
addition to a tender tailbone. I have no
idea where the tender tailbone came from
except from a roller blading fall I had
early last year - well before I started
training for my marathon.
Nothing seems to be "textbook". Sciatica
doesn't seem to match my symptoms and
since my back pain is pretty mild, I'm
doubting a disc problem. The doc thought a
pinched nerve but I thought a pinched
nerve would cause some pretty bad tingling
or more pain.
