Walking with Funny Toes?
 

Hello! I am currently a mystery - I get IVIG every 3 weeks for it.. My onset was 30 years old, 6 weeks post partum, so most Dr's assumed MS, but then that workup was pretty much negative,

Anyhow, The neuros noted I have proprioception confusion with the left foot at the onset of this.. but recently my toes of my left foot go up when I walk.. So, if I have a flip flop on, which requires some toe muscle coordination to keep them on, and now my toes go upwards, no matter what I do when I walk and it makes it hard to keep the shoes on, and also tuckers out my leg a little.. I have a negative babinski sign and no signs of spacicity, other than brisk reflexes..

Any thoughts? The dr's just think that is really odd.. and dont' know why it does that.

The toes go up on my left foot (my bad MS side), sometimes for no apparent
reason. Docs shouldn't think "odd" when it comes to MS symptoms. They
are all weird!!

Sally, when you say, "They are all weird," do you mean the symptoms or the doctors? I think it is a toss-up.

Hello,
I'd like to provide answers, but I am a mystery myself...
I have the same thing with my toes going up when I walk along with a variation of other symptoms. Docs thought MS for me as well, but after seeing an MS specialist they aren't sure. It seems like there is sadly more unknown than known when it comes to neurology. Hope you get some answers soon!

Hope you do to Twanielee.:hug:

hope this helps:

NeuroCheck- Babinski reflex:
Test the plantar response by scraping an object across the sole of the foot beginning from the heel, moving forward toward the small toe, and then arcing medially toward the big toe. The normal response is downward contraction of the toes. The abnormal response, called Babinski's sign, is characterized by an upgoing big toe and fanning outward of the other toes. In some patients the toes are "silent," moving neither up nor down. If the toes are downgoing on one side and silent on the other, the silent side is considered abnormal. The presence of Babinski's sign is always abnormal in adults, but it is often present in infants, up to the age of about 1 year.

THank yall!! yea, I have always had brisk reflexes my entire life, those seem unchanged from what I can tell - and negative hoffmanan and babinski - I thought maybe that was the case with my funky toes, but when I or the neuro tests - its negative (bilateral)..
I have wondered if it was a proprioception issue? Maybe my brain thinks they are down, but they really aren't?? I know I test funny on proprioception on that foot/toes.. It's annoying as my foot and leg will start to fatigue with the strange movements -kind of like the oppposite of foot drop though!