Good to know I’m not the only one! I pretend to enjoy it while inside my legs are screaming!!

Thank goodness I am not the only one feeling severe pain along my shin bones during a pedicure. I had calm in Ed myself that I could have cancer. I overthink!!!

I don't know about heel area, but if you massage my calf, inner leg, ankles it hurts as I have protruding veins. I don't have varicose veins, I just have very strong vessels that are visible.Nobody touches my nothing!
When I had an endoscopy, nurse nasty was about to put an IV. My vein is like 1/3 inch up as it is. She massaged out of the blue with the strength that could choke a cow! I literary gasped from the insane pain. She was all condescending, and my vein was bruised in a second and protruding like a pipe. It was so big it was scary like a horror show.

Interesting. I’ve had this in my upper thighs my entire life. It’s extremely painful with any type of massage. I generally like deep/painful therapeutic massages but I’ve had to tell people to stop around my legs because I’m about to scream.

It’s so bad that I’m sure I’ll be covered in bruises but I never am! Never figured out a cause.

Sounds like a nerve issue, perhaps?

I have the same problem with a leg massage. My inner shins, from the knee down to my ankle, feel badly bruised.