OK, so I go for months without a symptoms update and then several come along at once. This post comes from a comment made about my
walking, and from my own observations going out in the evenings.
Firstly, the walking. My wife observed that I always seem to
walk around at home on my toes rather than on my feet, and after she mentioned
it I know that this is now a regular thing for me. I’m not sure when I moved
from walking on feet to walking on toes, but it happens now. More detail: When
we are at home we take our shoes off, so all of us walk around in our socks. I
have noticed that I only walk on my toes at home, I don’t do this when wearing
my shoes out an about. At home, walking on my feet feels more difficult, and
therefore I wonder if this isn’t a bit more spasticity showing in my legs. The
other observation is that with my insoles my heels are a couple of centimetres
higher than without my insoles, so perhaps my feet are more used to walking with
heels slightly higher.
Secondly, when I have had a busy day I feel the
need to sit down towards the end of the evening. This was certainly true at my
office Christmas do, where we were standing for a good while. I can feel that
my legs are beginning to be more tired towards the end of the evening, and the
need to sit gets stronger and stronger. Perhaps another example of more
spasticity, or perhaps an example of physical fatigue starting to show itself.
When I am at home there are many more reasons to sit down, so I don’t notice
this as much – and I am often just putting in a few more flights of stairs or
laps of the house to get to the next fitbit badge.
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