Confused about lower leg irritation/tightness

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building up running since December (started with run/walk intervals and trying to work my way up to 5K).

For the past 3–4 weeks, I’ve had some irritation/tightness in my right shin, but it doesn’t feel like typical shin splints or at least what I think shin splints would be like. I have no bone pain, and it is more in the muscles (tib anterior/peroneals area). It stays pretty mild, like 1–2/10 but I’m worried this could turn into a worse injury, I’m pretty anxious about these things and don’t have enough experience to know.

It doesn’t really get worse with running, and overall hasn’t worsened (maybe slowly improving).

I’ve been keeping runs easy and added some strength work (calf raises, tib raises, ankle eversions with bands).

I talked to two physiotherapists, one said keep running if it stays mild and see how the strength training goes. The other said to scale back more. So I’m a bit stuck.

Anyone dealt with something similar? Did you run through it or back off?

Thanks!