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What Is Spasticity ?

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Alexandria, VA

Is this spasticity when your leg has an uncontrollable electric feeling and jerks then I get a painful cramp in foot?

December 29, 2013
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A MyMSTeam Member

It feels like you've been lifting hay bails the day before....like a hard work out. Really stiff.tight muscles.
The electric shock is due to lesions on your spine someone told me. I've also heard there is medication for both

December 29, 2013
A MyMSTeam Member

Tizanidine( (zaniflex) helps me a great deal especially with painful muscle spasms, I also use Thermawork spray to spray directly on the area where spasms occur & they are immediately gone. This stuff is a God Send & it can be purchased at most drug stores.

July 13, 2022
A MyMSTeam Member

That klonopin is highly addictive. I was on it for 30 years. All the benzodiazipines are. Just be careful.🥰

January 5, 2023
A MyMSTeam Member

Spasticity in your legs suck but I was prescribed Clonazepam (3) 0.5 mg tablets at night time. This Pharmaceutical drug clonazepam helps relieve my spasticity in my legs and lets me sleep! Thanks

January 5, 2023
A MyMSTeam Member

I have spasticity in different ways,in different places. Zings and zaps and shooting electrical like pains plus it seems to be part of the cause of atrophy( loss of muscle) in my right leg. It also causes low back pain that's not helped AT ALL by taking strong narcotics. Baclofen is the only drug that I've taken that works well. Other muscle relaxers can help too. Tizanadine works well too,if you can't take Baclofen.

December 23, 2022

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