I ve been having a similar pain today.
Why does it feel like i have a rubber band around my ankle.
It gets tighter feeling and the loose for awhile but never goes away.
I suspect it s idiopathic peripheral neuropathy reported the doctor there is no known cure and it will in all probability get worse.
Epidurals do help but i m not gonna do them just for this stupid pain.
Everytime i have a flare i keep the new symptoms i also have more numbing on the right leg.
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It is painful sometimes it feels like i m wearing a numbing sock.
Tight sock syndrome is a feeling of wearing socks on your feet all the time.
I have a tight feeling around my ankles like a one inch band is strangling them.
I have it around both ankles i just had an episode and he the band sensation around my leg just below the knee.
I woke up with this pain like a crushing band around my left foot.
However i also have a very tight sensation like a rubber band wrapping around the upper calf below the l knee.
It comes and goes like a spasm and has been doing this for more than 12 hours off and on all day.
It s been going on for a few months now.
The band has suddenly extended farther down and is affecting the entire leg.
I have been diagnosed years ago w chronic pain in my back and legs told i had sciatica and coyxedina but recently i have been having pain issues w feeling of a tightening like a rubber band feeling around my right ankle and my feet feel like they are ice cold and now it is starting to happen in both ankles.
I have this on my l foot and the other just mildly so.
It s only on one side it feels like a rubber band is around the middle of my calf about where trouser socks hit.
Nerve and muscle tests did not point to an answer for the symptoms.
It is very disturbing.
I had been experiencing tingling at the bottom of both feet and a feeling of tight rubber bands around my right ankle.