Yesterday, I completed my “Week 4 Run 2”. While running second 5 minutes, I lost full sense of my left leg but completed without worry. Same experience when I was doing “Week 4 Run 1”. Few minutes after cooling down, everything normal (even played with kids on same park).
I thoroughly enjoyed my run so far. After reading multiple internet blogs, I am bit confused about numb leg condition. I certainly want to complete my 9-week program and continue to enjoy 30 minutes of run for 3 times a week thereafter but not at the cost of (major) injury.
- Is it common?
- I was running on green, soft and moist park but little uneven due to grass and rains. Does running on hard surface better than the park?
- Anyone had (serious) injury in later weeks from this condition?
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BR Sha
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All sounds a little confusing - especially your whole leg? Sometimes tight shoes can cause numbness in your foot though. What I would say is running with poor sensation in your leg for any amount of time could increase your risk of injury - so it might be best to speak with your doctor or a physio. I had a substantial amount of time off running recently following a bout of sciatica which resulted in nerve damage to my leg😮. Even when I felt things were getting back to normal, I had to rein things in as my footfall was altered for quite some time, resulting in various other niggles due to compensation of other muscles. The surface you are running on shouldn't have had anything to do with it. Good luck, I hope you get it sorted so that you can continue.🙂
No it is not common. If all your leg was numb below the knee, that is very strange and I would see your doctor. It is good it returned completely to normal but you must be trapping a nerve somewhere (If you managed to keep running / didn't fall over it is a sensory nerve and not a motor one) . The sciatic nerve is the commonest and is due to back problems (make sure you run looking forward not at the ground) and is normally is pain down the back of all of your leg and numbness on the outside of your foot, so this doesn't quite fit.
Thinking about it, I think I've had this a couple of times, but no rhyme or reason to it. Whatever it was it went away because I don't get it now. I've also had numb feet, probably due to wrong shoe-lacing and there was one period years ago when I had lower back pain when running or fast walking. It always appeared at the same point on my route and recently I ran past the same point and suddenly remembered it. That lasted for a good few months, but has also gone now. I'm not a great one for going to doctors unless I'm dying (grew up in a medical family - my father didn't seem to think much of his medical colleagues or the pharma industry!), so these things resolved themselves.
Thanks for your response. I continued my running two ago as I was able to recover immediately. It will take few days to get GP appointment in my convenient time. I am going to start “WK5” from today as per schedule.
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