Hi there! I never really had an issue with tight muscles & stretching prior to this winter. I would stretch & stretch without feeling much of an improvement. Check out the post I put on entitled 'Inversion Table' Just by dumb luck I found the answers to my feeling of 'needing to constantly stretch. I hope this will also give you some relief.

I don't suppose you've ever really given magnesium a chance? Just a thought.

Lorries -- I take Magnesium, but it just doesn't give me the great results others get. I wonder why.

Upon Lorrie and others suggestions, I take magnesium. Not a high dose, also a daily multivitamin which has it, and I have recently starting snacking on homemade trail mix (nuts & raisins) I don't know what is doing the trick, but I have much less leg pain than I used to.

I take magnesium & it doesn't help at all, so some light stretching which helps a ttle. If I do too much then it makes it worse.
The best thing I have found is laser acupuncture, I am lucky my local gp does it & bulk bills so doesn't cost. I go every week & he targets different parts of my body at different times if something is esp sore,

I have started stretching and it seems to help me a little. A hot tub would not be good for me. When I get hot, my symptoms come and stay with me until I cool down. I wish you the best.

I'm finding that stretching isn't helping me much anymore either. I tried magnesium with no change. This is my most painful winter so far. I wish I had some suggestions for you, but right now I have no answers. Hope things get easier for you.

Thank you all for your replies . Does anybody KNOW WHY so much sore mucles??? I don't understa . I've onky read its from over use, not me, or under use.. any ideas??? This has gotten so out of hand. I stayed in compressio socks, or some kind of snug wraps around my feet, ankles and legs and alwsys a heated blanket wrapped around my legs. Im soooo miserabke .

Like djbrit said, a hot tub also wouldn't work for me, my neurologist told me to never get in a hot tub. Heat makes me miserable & drained. You'll probably have to go thru a lot of trial & error. Last fall I started seeing a pain management specialist have you tried a doc that specializes in pain?

The only thing that helps me is aqua therapy, without that I think I would be in a wheelchair. I go 3 X a week, in fact I really look forward to it. Meet many people and we all tell our stories to each other.

I have very tight muscles & spasms.
I am on bacofen & another one tesadine (sorry no idea how to spell it)
I do find that it does not always work.
I use a massager a good hand held one that is light enough & will a good handle that I can use it on my back & neck.
It is the only way I can get through.
I in a hospital bed so I put it between me & the bed so I do not have to hold it.
when I was at home I put it between me & the couch/chair.
The one I use now is from walh & it has different "pad" to put on it so you can change the depth you feel it.
It also has heat or cold on it

once my muscles are looser I can stretch better.
I find if I try to stretch when my muscles are too tight I do more harm then good

i'm so glad you posted this, so glad just to know others deal with it---with cold my muscles are so stiff and sore---i was thinking is this the pain people with ms talk about? damn fluctuation in weather one day not sore--that arctic circle comes down and i'm thinking there is something really wrong? damn weather. thanks for posting this perhaps i'll take mag suppliment in winter only

MEDITATION (or what ever one calls it;) CAN MAKE ONE PAIN FREE! I've been diagnosed in 2001 and had that pain you are describing for years and then I just remembered smth (now I wonder how I could forget...)

Looking back at my life I

have realised that I was great at

meditation at 7 years of age. When I couldnt

sleep at night because my legs where hurting

very very much. So what I came up with back then

(having absolutely no idea about the

concept of meditation) I find truly

remarkable now. Whenever I was in pain, I

started imagining

that my legs were hurting on the other side of

the bed and as long as I was staying on my side of

the bed it couldn't possibly affect me. Because

how could it? As pain and I were in different places ;0).

Funny thing is that it has taken me a very

long time to learn how to meditate properly

(in a grown up kind of way) and to be honest

I think Im not really there just yet. Unless my legs start

to hurt at night and then it only takes me a couple of

minutes to switch off from the reality and

fall asleep. (I wish I could also do it with

migraines...;).

Hope that helped somehow... Love! E x x x x