Although my footdrop looks different than your footdrop, they are both still "a drag." I like that phrase, very funny. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah I got the FootDrop right now. You did a great job on the film describing what a 'drag' it is. Mine is alot like like one of the ones you were demonstrating & it is the same leg too. Mine has pain from spasticity in it. It goes all through my right leg and foot. My doctor is a Migraine specialist as well and has started me on botox shots in my leg but not in my foot. It is working in my leg but oh man do I need it in my foot. I guess that is what its all about taking responsibility as a patient for your care. I can only get botox every 3 months but at least I can tell her where it still needs it. I notice that it gets more pronounced when I get tired or fatigued.
Sure....I have been having a residual from an exacerbation that seemed to include spme residual spazticity when it cleared up. It seemed to last more than a year probably closer to two. I kept taking Baclofen for the spazticity but it was becoming ineffective. In desparation for some relief from the constant pain so I asked my doctor if there was ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE COULD DO ABOUT THIS AT ALL?! She agreed and told me that there was no documented evidence of it working for MS patients but it had been done before. In other words the findings were never published in a professional journal because I don't think that they could get enough evidence.
Part of the treatment for severe migraines is using botox to relax the muscles associated with any triggers that cause them. I did a search on it and found out that it had medical applications. I also did alot of question asking to my doc and her nurse practitioner. I chose to take the risk of taking the botox intramuscular shots to see if that would begin to help with the constant pain that I was experiencing and had been experiencing in my right leg and foot. I got the Botox in my leg but still need it in my foot. I have only done one treatment and cannot do another until February. I was very surprized that the process of the shots kind of felt like accupuncture. As long as I did not watch what she was doing, I was OK 
Well it worked for me. It took about a week for it to really start to become noticable but it did have an extremely helpful result for me and my doc. It can help pinpoint where she needs to focus the next tme.
Very effective for folks like me (a caregiver) to reconize the symptom. The old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words just goes ten fold for video and your descriptions help one to understand how foot drop feels as well. Thanks for sharing. Yeah, all those green leaves make me wish for warm summer days again. Merry Christmas to you.
And Merry Christmas to you!
Yeah...it is kinda hard to describe in words...you gotta see it for yourself. Although MS is mostly an invisible disease...most of the symptoms you can't see...foot drop is something which is pretty noticeable. Least mine is. 
I do thank you for coming by to read and comment. I hope you come back again.
Yep Foot Drop is what I got also. It is hell on the toes of my shoes. I have got to call the Bio people to go get my brace, and I hope that it helps. But it will not look cool this summer, but I will figure that out to do when summer time comes. Foot drop is a drag, literaly 
But it's all right. Maybe a long skirt, or a cute pair of capri pants will hide the brace. Hey a girl has got to do, what a girl has got to do.
You know, you have to look for the good in life. Be ye well or sick. Really there is good. I try and focus on that. Yes MS sucks, and has put a hitch in my get-a-long. But I am going to contiinue to get-a-long. God willing and the creek don't rise! I write as an outlet, it helps a lot, so rather than swim around in self-pity I write about the good and funny things in life.
Sherry
Great idea to do this video for us to see and learn from. Those of us who have this symptom can relate but still we can learn how yours may be different or even similar to ours.
Those who haven't experienced this yet can know what to expect from watching your video.
Another great job and service you have done!
Thanks for the video. It is helpful to see this in action. I stub my toe fairly often and have tripped and fallen a couple of times because one leg drags a bit when I get tired. I never thought it was noticeable or had a name until a visit to my neurologist about a year ago when she said "It looks like your foot is dropping a little more." I never knew it was visible at all -- and when she said something, I couldn't even feel that I was walking any differently than normal.
Now I'm aware that it's with me all the time and that even if I can't feel it, my foot drop is a little noticeable. The good thing is that now that I'm aware of it, I am more cautious about picking up my feet when stepping up onto a curb or up stairs so I won't trip.
Yeah this foot drop thing can definitely make you trip and fall down. I have done it many a time. And it does seem to happen more often when I am tired too. It seems a never ending cycle...the MS makes you tired...and so then you have all these gait problems...which makes you more tired. I hate MS.
It is very good to see you. I will have to see if you have written anything lately. I need to catch up with people's posts. Thanks so much for coming to read and to comment.
My husband has severe foot drop from RRMS. He received a Bioness L300 from the VA last year and it's helped so much. Right now the Bioness is giving him problems, we have to go back to the tech again. It's sure a noticeable difference without the Bioness. He's really struggling to walk and it hurts his back like heck.
Thanks for sharing your story.
I appreciate the video, family always called me hoofa and didnt realize I had foot drop; until I started falling down at work; I was offered an early out shortly after it started; I have had auto accident nearly year after retiring, so I have given up driving for now; still exercising, but still having trouble and am now using walker; you guys please drop me an email with ideas; joe65o@aol.com or emrwhq@aol.com
Hi,
I just had to respond. We have the same gait! Mine is my left foot, not all of the time but if I get too hot or really stressed out my left leg will drag. It seems to get worse if I have to keep walking and am trying to keep up with someone. My right leg tries to hop. LOL. But it doesn't hurt..just feels out of control. I told someone that it feels like wearing your dad's shoes when you were little
Thanks for the video, It really helped me!
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I appreciate your willing to demonstrate and explain this symptom. I remember still, when a very small boy, seeing a man walking like that and no one could tell me why. It's an image that has stayed for a long time.
The more people are made aware of what is behind what they are seeing, even past just understanding, even past defeating ignorance, is an interest in seeing something done about it. That applies to so many things and I think, videos like this can help build empathy, not sympathy, and ultimately have a role in beating MS, or, in a way seemingly unique to you, help explain what it is doing, what people are seeing.
Really? You saw someone who walked like me? In all my years I don't think I have seen someone walking like me. It was kinda hard for me to view myself as in "Oh lordy...do I really look like that?" But it was good for me too...to accept that yes this is just a part of things and so what if I have a silly walk. I like what you say about empathy as opposed to sympathy. Exactly. I wanted to give people a chance to see what this symptom may look like. Prior to my diagnosis I scoured the internet to find something like this but couldn't find anything. I wanted to see what MS looks like.
Anyways...I have written a novel here. Thank you so much for your comment...it is very appreciated.