What to do if your legs are sore and you can't sleep at night

Leg soreness, especially at night, greatly affects sleep and is a condition that troubles many people. There are many reasons for leg soreness. Generally, it is caused by excessive exercise during the day, which leads to the accumulation of lactic acid. There is no need to worry about this situation. Once the lactic acid is consumed, the symptoms of leg soreness will be relieved or disappear. In addition, there is also the condition of neuropathy. Let’s follow the editor to learn about other conditions.

There are several reasons why you can’t sleep due to leg soreness:

1. Lesions of the nervous system: Because muscles are innervated by nerves, lesions of nerves will affect the muscles they innervate and cause corresponding clinical symptoms.

2. Kidney disease: From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, kidney deficiency can cause general fatigue, and of course, soreness and weakness in the legs. In Western medicine, kidney diseases such as nephritis and nephrotic syndrome can also manifest as soreness and weakness in the legs.

3. Muscle lesions: Infection, tumors, etc. can cause corresponding muscle lesions

4. When the lumbar intervertebral disc herniates, the protruding intervertebral disc compresses the nerves, which can cause sensory and motor disorders in both lower limbs, often accompanied by low back pain

5. Rheumatic diseases: Rheumatic diseases are systemic immune diseases, such as systemic sclerosis, dermatomyositis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc., which can be caused by soreness of the legs, but are accompanied by other symptoms, such as joint pain, erythema nodosum, etc.

6. Infection, such as upper respiratory tract infection, can also cause general fatigue, and a few people may only experience soreness and weakness in the lower limbs.

In addition, it is considered to be related to calcium deficiency and fatigue. It may be that recent strenuous exercise has caused a large amount of lactic acid to be produced, causing leg soreness. It is recommended that you pay more attention to rest. It will be fine in a few days. If your condition is not caused by excessive exercise, then it may be a muscle problem. You can go to the hospital for a check-up. If the pain is so severe that you can't sleep, just take a painkiller, such as ibuprofen sustained-release tablets. Pay more attention to rest and avoid too much mental stress. Eat some mushrooms, milk, and lean meat to strengthen your physical fitness and immunity, and supplement calcium appropriately. It is recommended that you try oral Gaergi. Eat more bone soup, crucian carp soup and lean meat, and drink more milk.