Flexor spasms
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:57 am
I buried the information in my regimen post but I want it to be here for everyone to note:
I have flexos spasms and I believe they complicated my recovery from the stent procedure. Here's the deal:
Flexor spasms are spasms of those muscles that flex your body. They are sometimes called restless legs, but the experience is that the leg pulls up, and/or the back arches and the stomach tightens uncontrollably. It can happen in response to a noxious stimulus like a icy cold touch or it can happen for no reason as you lay in bed and turn over. But it pulls you around like a pretzel and the spasms can be very strong and completely uncontrollable.
I get these spasms a few times at night and in me, who is still a walking person they are not as bad as they can be for some, but they are legs pulling up strongly as if to march and the stomach muscles pulling tightly in an unbelieveably strong contraction that lasts for roughly 4-5 seconds.
In surgery, the femoral vein was accessed through the lower abdomen and I had a complication in that the area kept leaking blood both outside and in to the abdominal muscle. I believe these flexor spasms were the cause of the delayed healing and closing of this part of the surgical site.
This was unfortunate and probably avoidable.
I am currently using more muscle relaxants at GP recommend: baclofen & clonazepam, to keep the area at rest and quiet so it can heal up neatly and nicely. IT is doing better already.
If others going to this surgery have this spasm problem talk to your doctor ahead of time about making sure you have a plan to keep from experiencing flexor spasms in that area.
so if you have these spasms ordinarily please post on this thread then report back later so people can see if this bears out...
marie
I have flexos spasms and I believe they complicated my recovery from the stent procedure. Here's the deal:
Flexor spasms are spasms of those muscles that flex your body. They are sometimes called restless legs, but the experience is that the leg pulls up, and/or the back arches and the stomach tightens uncontrollably. It can happen in response to a noxious stimulus like a icy cold touch or it can happen for no reason as you lay in bed and turn over. But it pulls you around like a pretzel and the spasms can be very strong and completely uncontrollable.
I get these spasms a few times at night and in me, who is still a walking person they are not as bad as they can be for some, but they are legs pulling up strongly as if to march and the stomach muscles pulling tightly in an unbelieveably strong contraction that lasts for roughly 4-5 seconds.
In surgery, the femoral vein was accessed through the lower abdomen and I had a complication in that the area kept leaking blood both outside and in to the abdominal muscle. I believe these flexor spasms were the cause of the delayed healing and closing of this part of the surgical site.
This was unfortunate and probably avoidable.
I am currently using more muscle relaxants at GP recommend: baclofen & clonazepam, to keep the area at rest and quiet so it can heal up neatly and nicely. IT is doing better already.
If others going to this surgery have this spasm problem talk to your doctor ahead of time about making sure you have a plan to keep from experiencing flexor spasms in that area.
so if you have these spasms ordinarily please post on this thread then report back later so people can see if this bears out...
marie