Pain in shin bones

[Princess Pooper]

Suffering from really painful shin bones at night, sometimes one, sometimes both, can go a couple of weeks with nothing. Stops me sleeping sometimes. I don't do any running, excessive walking/jumping on hard surfaces which seem to be the main causes of shin splints which would seem the most obvious cause. The pain does not seem to be related to doing anything in particular that day and my shins don't hurt during the day. The other possibility, after googling, just because I am in the at risk age of over 50, is Paget's disease of the bones. No obvious swelling or discolouration, just aching night pain.

Anyone else? Any suggestions?

 

[JCMaloney]

Hormone deficiency?

Just had my spine sorted out by a nice man with a big needle..... so far so good, bit sore but different to the sciatica and rabidly aching muscles!

 

[MRT]

Not another suggestion more of the same shin splint type stuff:

Sore spots in calf muscles at the back can radiate through and be felt as pain in the front (certainly can with me anyway) before diagnosing yourself with anything miore exciting try searching through the muscles with pressure, there should be 0/10 soreness. Drape the one leg over the other knee cap and use the weight of the leg. If you find a sore spot work on it. A good 12 short reps, stop, repeat twice. Stretch and work the muscles too, toe raises etc

 

[ollie989898]

Both shins?

Any changes to the skin?

 

[Lazy Sod]

Posibly peripheral neuropathy which I have, it causes numbness, tingling and pain in the feet and calves. Mine is caused by nerve damage in my back, because of an old back injury. Another effect is my loss of balance. Because of the nerve damage, messages don't travel between my brain and the muscles adequately, both in quantity and speed, resulting in a certain amount of loss of control.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Well, a bit like a problem with a car that behaves itself as soon as you go to the garage, my shins have been fine since posting this. Sometimes it was one shin, sometimes both, always at night, but only a couple or three times a month, no changes to skin colour. Shin, not calves, deep in the bone, not muscle. Rheumy said get my pulses checked (I have Raynauds) but it has been fine since I saw her!

 

[serf]

Well, a bit like a problem with a car that behaves itself as soon as you go to the garage, my shins have been fine since posting this. Sometimes it was one shin, sometimes both, always at night, but only a couple or three times a month, no changes to skin colour. Shin, not calves, deep in the bone, not muscle. Rheumy said get my pulses checked (I have Raynauds) but it has been fine since I saw her!

You hypochondriac

 

[MRT]

You hypochondriac

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