They get tense & stiff because of poor blood circulation. You have to move to release the blood to flow. Do light easy exercises just by moving your legs slowly up & down, sideways to the left & right. The more you don't move, the stiffer it gets. Every few minutes, Pat your hand everywhere on your leg. Wiggle your leg like a worm. You have to keep moving. If you're lying down on the bed, move your legs.

Slowly start to stretch your muscles, real slow, don't stretch to far or much, keep doing so until your seeing results! Not moving at all or enough will do sever damage to muscle tissue in the sense of muscle degradation especially for long periods of time (for a month or two), I know it's very hard but you musn't give up trying, today I had to stop halfway up my stairs and cry a bit because of the pain in legs, it's crippling but if I give up I will end up being in the same bucket as you, I get agonising lock jaw from pushing through to the point where I'm actually crushing bits of my teeth and end up with teeth so sore I can barley eat, don't forget pain is constant but life isn't as hard as it is we must go on if we are to ever enjoy it!

Well my dr wasn't going to do anything and i just looked at him until hw finally decided to do a blood test

yes that happens to me too I can't relax as soon as I relax all hell breaks loose I get up but I find lately that my legs I can't feel them twice I have fallen in the past when I was getting out of bed and went backwards and hit my head on the table the second time I went forward and hit my head on the cement went to the hospital I had a slight concussion but they asked me what happened I told them and you can tell when somebody doesn't believe you tell when somebody don't believe you that's okay that's the story of my life but I'm still going to fight for us no matter what we're all family on here and I hope everybody else feels the same way the more we all stand up against doctors pain management pcp's excetera sometimes family that this is real I also be called a hypercondriac which I told them first of all I haven't seen a doctor since this ship again and I don't make it my point to go see doctors and go to the hospital and do all that s*** to me that's just a waste of time and they made it to me that it's a waste of time to but it's getting closer the doctors are realizing that there is such thing fibromyalgia so I will continue to stand and I know you guys are with me too I pray for all of you you're not so good days and your bad days please encouraging new members and old members to keep their head up and I will do it also I am trying to make it a point to get on here at least once or twice a week to keep in touch with all my family on here and I hope you all do the same you all have an inspirational and helping each other it's been such a great pleasure to meeting all of you and the ones that I'm going to be meeting God bless you and with all the love Chopper

Fandk1100 did you ever find out what was causing it?