I'm having a weird issue I'm hoping to get some advice on. I'll start with some background info.

9 years ago August I had an emergency c-section that required spinal anaesthesia to numb me from the chest down. Ever since then, the biceps femoris muscle in my left leg has given me some really awful problems. It aches in the cold deep down under the skin, but the layers of fat and skin on top of it are completely numb. I can poke my skin along the muscle line with a needle and I feel absolutely nothing, but if the area of the muscle is compressed it has a dual ache/soothing feeling.

Over the years I have found it quite strange that I can't seem to lose fat on that part of my left leg. Right leg I can lose fat just fine, but the left is bulkier. If I grab the tops of both legs you can tell there is way more fat on the left than the right and the right is more muscular. I love cycling, but I can always tell that my left leg is weaker and needs to work harder. I have done more squats and lunges and all sorts of funky leg exercises to build the muscle in this leg, but it almost seems dead, yet its not.

I have asked several doctors about what's going on, and all of them said it was probably a result of the spinal during my c-section. One went so far as to suggest the spinal in combination with my former high weight may have led to a compressed nerve somewhere, but the tests to find it and remedy it would be really expensive.

So here's my question: how do I lose fat on that leg? Right now I'm dealing with the problem of having one skinny leg and one fat leg and its gotten to the point that I try not to work my right leg anymore because the difference is becoming too noticeable.

Any suggestions??

I was going to suggest a damaged nerve also based on my husbands experience with having it in his leg. Maybe the bigger leg thing is just a coincidence. My right leg is very noticeably larger than my left and has only gotten more noticeable since surgery. Sorry, no advice just wanted to say I understand. I'm definitely not losing where I'd like.