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I’m a 38 year old woman and used to be an avid runner. I ran a half marathon in December, then one in March much easier. Then I started training for a fast 5k. I amped up my speed training and it was rough.

3-ish months ago I was out running and it felt like my shorts were too tight on my right hamstring. I thought it was odd and switched to looser shorts. Then every time from then on I ran it got worse. My right upper leg would seem to tighten up and it just felt wrong and like I was running on a wooden leg or something. At first it was after a few miles, then it was after a mile. No stretching would stretch it out. I even went to the zoo with my family and my leg started feeling funny there after walking a few miles. Around this time I was having a LOT of twitching in that area of my leg.

I took a month off thinking on whatever and tried to run a month later and the problem had not gotten better at all. I saw an ortho they did an mri of my lumbar spine and found nothing. I went to Legoland with my family and surprisingly my leg didn’t feel bad. However I did start cycling and this seems to make it start feeling weird again. I went on a very relaxed vacation and honestly didn’t notice many symptoms and the twitching has gone away.

I had a neurologist appt scheduled after my vacation and almost cancelled it. However I kept it and he said I have a positive Babinski sign on my right leg and said my gait was off. My strength was normal. He seemed freaked out and wanted me to get an MRI to make sure I didn’t have a stroke. MRI was mostly clean except for “very slight calcification of basal ganglia”??. He ordered an EMG but I can’t get it for a few weeks. And now I swear I’m feeling some weird tightness and “funny” feeling in my right arm.

How concerned should I be about the the Babinski sign?. Or my leg not “working” right? I also have scoliosis and a short leg length discrepancy if any of this matters. I am just a nervous wreck. I’m a mom with a four year old and she depends on me.