u/Top-Negotiation-2807

This happened almost a month ago, and I'm still recovering from this.

Recently I got into a depressive slump, and all I've been doing was playing video games, studying, and job hunting online from my desk. I'm a college student soon to graduate.

For almost a month, I pretty much stopped cooking, going to the gym, going for walks/cycling, and generally being a healthy person. Literally had my ass planted in the chair 16 hours a day, sometimes laying down to video chat with my girlfriend

Over time, my posture got worse and worse, and I started sitting on my chair with my left leg compressed underneath my butt, almost like I was trying to sit criss-cross on the chair. Not sure why I started doing this. Most of my bodyweight was concentrated on my ankle/shin.

Coincidentally, I had to renew my mattress during this time, so I had to sleep on a mat on the hardwood floor for a few days. I sleep on my left side, so my left leg was compressed between the hard floor and my weight. This was the fatal mistake.

Apparently, when your nerve gets compressed too much for a long period of time, it gets damaged and basically deactivates. I went to the doctor, and he said I had peroneal nerve neuropathy - basically, if the nerve under your knee gets compressed too much, it deactivates and your leg effectively gets paralyzed.

I couldn't feel anything underneath my knee for almost 2 weeks, and I could barely move my ankle and toes. Except I could still feel pain. It was painful because I also sprained my ankle from trying to walk on my paralyzed foot before I realized how bad it was.

Even worse, it seemed like the nerve that controls my calf muscle also got damaged, so I basically had no control over my calf. Which meant the achilles tendon had to bear all of my bodyweight when I tried to walk a few times. So I had an inflamed achilles tendon as well - which meant my entire leg under my knee was completely f*cked up for over two weeks

Eventually it got better after taking nerve recovery medicine, and now I just feel like I have a regular sprain and can't walk normally (which still sucks).

TL;DR: Got peroneal nerve neuropathy from bad posture and sleeping on the floor. The lesson - don't sit on your leg and don't skimp out on a mattress. This was such a stupid mistake that cost me a month for no reason but I learned my lesson lol