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Waking up with knees up, feet flat, one foot has a pounding feeling from the calf

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Well it's all in the title...this happens to me from time to time, what the hell could it be ? I massaged the area using a less than ideal "device" (rolling ball(s) of my computer chair) and it is definitely painful/relieving to massage that area where the pounding is happening. It is bizarre since I've had foot pain before in my left foot (and regular blood tests since 3 years never indicate any diabetes) but never in the right foot except when this occurs. After getting up, I feel no pain at all, it seems to be generated by the pressure of my knees in the air pushing on my feet.

This is very confusing :?
 
When did this start happening OP? What I know is that whenever you have a pounding feeling from the calf the muscles are tight. Have you been doing some running recently? Any other activities that might result to your current symptom?
 
Sounds like a charlie horse, and it's on one leg? Are you a side sleeper, and is that side usually underneath? Maybe it's not getting as much blood flow in the night.

Propping your knee up with foot flat would relax the gastrocnemius muscles on the back of the lower leg... they're the ones that the achillies tendon connects to.
 
Happens when I sleep on my back, I said I wake up with both legs up to my knees _/\_o -- just like that, so nope, not happening when i'm on my side...even if I fall asleep on my sides I usually end up waking up on my back anyway.
 
It's probably a coping mechanism for pain that's being caused by some kind of poor positioning in bed.

A common reason for leg pain while people sleep on their backs is that pressure gets placed on the sacral area of the lower back for hours. Once the nerve plexus there goes numb then the legs experience pain, tingling, etc. So if the pillow under the legs doesn't work then also try padding your lower back.
 
More like poor bed than position :! It's a futon, and rock hard, I like soft beds, but I have no choice but to use this. When I left for my master's to a faraway college, my mom and her dumbass stepdad decided to take apart the foundation of my bed, it was made of wood and they just scrapped it, thinking I would never come back again, I did, to help her financially because the dumbass stepdad lost his business in 2010 and hasn't made a cent since then, he can't even get welfare because they consider my mom "too rich". Really amazing when welfare doesn't take into account everything his partner (mom) has to pay for and the debts.

I don't know where the mattress ended either, I'll try to sleep on one of their incredibly expensive sofas... I do that in the summer when my tiny room gets overheated by the multiple desktops in it.
 
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