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My young adult daughter has been suffering with horrendous leg cramps recently. To the extent she is left screaming in pain. She said the pain is behind her calves and it comes and goes. She’s also been getting weakness and tingles in her legs and feet too.

does anyone know what could be causing this? GP wasn’t concerned and said likely stress. It started 3 months ago in one leg but now she said it happens in both

Tell her to go back and don’t let herself be fobbed off with “stress”. Go with her if you can, young women are often dismissed.

Could it be growing pains. My son used to get these.

She didn’t have blood tests for this specifically, but she had some not long before it for exhaustion. She can’t go a day without napping for at least 1-2 hours. I don’t know the details but she got a print out of her results and everything was well within range. They tested vitamin D too as she was absolutely exhausted. Her level was easily in the normal range, she wasn’t on the low end of anything.

so when she returned for the leg cramping and weakness, she was told it was just stress as her recent blood test was completely clear

Has she had her thyroid levels checked? I can feel like your daughter when my medication is too low.

All that can be said from the tests is that she was clear of everything for which she was tested.

• Was she tested for diabetes. (Does she have any weight loss or thirst?)
• Was her thyroid tested?
• Was she sent for neurological tests?

She needs to ring the surgery talk to the reception and find out precisely what she was tested for.

Then she needs to go back and ask to be tested for any of the above she wasn’t tested for. If she’s been tested for all of those things and the results were negative, she needs to ask to be referred to a chronic fatigue syndrome unit.

Has she had Covid recently?