Help! Having Tender/Tingly Leg Pain!
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| Sat, 01-24-2004 - 1:32am |
I hope someone can help me with some advice or something on this!
I have felt so 'off' today. I ended up sleeping in the livingroom recliner lastnight from around 4:30am, till around 9am, when I woke up. I didn't sleep that long, but at least I was warm in the recliner sleeping, and not freezing in my room, due to the damned heating vent not working up in my bedroom.
I woke up just aching all in my legs and feet, but not really deeply in the muscles, but....and I hope this will sound right....my skin just hurt all over, and is very tender from my hips down to my feet. Like a REALLY BAD sunburn, and you just hate touching your skin, or having someone else touch your skin, because it HURTS LIKE HELL! Well, that is just how this feels and the only way I can describe it. Maybe it IS the muscles in my legs involved, but really, I don't know what to do about it! Just a slight touch hurts me, mostly in my thighs.
This has went on all day, but I did manage to get some dishes done, the wash taken down and folded and brought upstairs, plus, I took the Xmas tree down today too (yea finally took the Xmas tree down), and got all of the stuff on that put away in the basement. Up and down the basement steps really did me under, since when I was done, I just crawled onto the couch, and stayed there the rest of the day.
I ended up watching soaps, so you KNOW I don't feel good at all when I end up watching soap operas! I HATE soap operas!
I have felt totally lethargic all day, but I totally figured it is just due to the PMS, since I am due for my period tomorrow (Saturday), and also due to the only 4 1/2 to 5 hours of sleep lastnight in the recliner, that is causing this, but I can't explain this REALLY ODD tender/tingling leg pain at all. I have NEVER had this before in my life, or during PMS. Not sure if it is water weight gain from PMS or another diabetic symptom or something, so I need advice.
My ankles are a bit swollen from the PMS water weight gain, but I have never had the tender/tingly pains all in my legs and feet at the same time. My legs are NOT reddish like a sunburn, but they feel like they are sunburned due to the uncomfy tender feeling, if that makes any sense.
Then I took a hot bath tonight to maybe help my legs and feet feel better, and after that, I got dressed, then came down here, when suddenly severe nausea slammed into me, and sent me reeling! I haven't 'gotten sick to my stomach' or anything, just REALLY nauseous. Again, I figure it is the intense PMS symptoms, since I am due for my period tomorrow. (Ugh)
I hadn't eaten much today, just a couple small danishes and some de-caffeinated hot Chai tea when I first woke up at 9am, then later on around 2pm I ate turkey and cheese on white bread with some water to wash it down, and finally, later on, I had a couple small 'hot tamales' on 2 small buns, and some shell macaroni with sauce, and coffee to drink. I haven't eaten anything since around 5pm tonight, and it is now 1:14am in the morning. So my tummy is starting to feel odd, and I am getting a dull headache with some lightheadedness, so I know I need to eat some cheese on crackers or something to raise my sugar level some.
I admit to being REALLY scared about this odd tender/tingly pains in my legs, and reading up online about what it could be is scaring me all the more! :(
If any of you can enlighten me on what this could be, please do, and/or how to help ease this odd pain in my legs and feet! I haven't yet been diagnosed with diabetes, since I have been unable to get tested yet, but this really has me wondering and worrying now. :(
Well, good news is that the Alka-Seltzer in 'flat' 7-UP, that I sipped on earlier, has helped ease my nausea off, thankfully. Hope it stays away. I just want this period to get here and get overwith this month, that is for sure.
Thanks for reading, and for any help or advice any of you can give. I just don't know what to do to ease this odd discomfort in my legs, or what this is! Bad enough having cramping and fatigue thanks to PMS and an oncoming period, but now this!

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Hello,
Thanks so much again for writing. I have had a really good day today, and took a lot of your suggestions to heart, and been feeling better. I am still sleeping too much though, as I don't have much energy, but otherwise today, I have not had a headache, stomachache, cramps, nausea, or achiness. Even my mood is better.
I am drinking the water down, and on my 3rd glass tonight, and I hate to say it, that will be it for tonight. I will have some Chai tea soon, since I am really feeling chilly. It is 19 degrees out now and windy, and the house even feels chilly now. The water did go right through me, and I felt like I peed a river when I finally did go, but I can tell that it is cleaning me out and probably also washing out the sugars that I had in my body from the sweets and cookies I have been giving into the past few days.
I had 3 fillets of fish today with some fries, and also had a small dish of brussel sprouts for dinner. I know, the fries I shouldn't have had, but they are my weakness. I haven't had my snack yet tonight. I usually have crackers and cheese but we are out of the cheese, so I will just have some sliced hard boiled eggs on crackers instead soon, or even eat a bowl of oatmeal. I still have to get into eating the three meals a day, since that is hard for me, because I sleep so much of the day away due to my intense fatigue and drowsy feeling.
I haven't weighed myself in a while, and won't till my period is overwith, since I don't want to get a false reading due to water weight on me yet from the PMS and my period. Last I checked it was at around 104 though. I don't feel like I have dropped any again, so hopefully I haven't. My goal has been to get up to at least 115, then to 120, and finally to 135, but I can barely stay at 106, and I hate it! Makes me just cry to not be able to get into most of my clothes anymore. Even when I do eat well, I don't really gain it, and like I have said, I struggle to get to 106. I have NEVER been this underweight in my life.
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Please don't worry to much about me. I am not feeling too bad right now, and doing better, but I know that is not meaning the coast is all clear by a longshot. Since I am still majorly tired, and get tired soooo easily.
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Well, I got the courage and wrote to him, and in a nice polite way, told him that I didn't think he was taking very good care of himself. I made my points very well, and wrote the facts of the matter right out there for him to see. I also found some articles online and put them in the e-mail too. In a few hours he wrote back to me, and said that I was totally right, he hadn't been taking very good care of himself, and not paying attention to the warning signs at all. Just gets to doing things, and gets busy, then forgets to take care of himself like he should. He really thanked me for pointing it all out, but had to joke and call me 'Mom' for doing it. LOL He said that he has been taking better care of himself lately, and feeling better for doing it, which totally eases my mind. I am so glad I wrote now, and I feel that he really was touched that I cared so much about him, to take the time like that and write how I felt, and to look up the articles for him too.
That is just the way I am. I have recently helped out another friend that was ill, giving him advice on how to feel better from the stomach bug he had, and then wrote and gave advice to yet another friend that is having relationship troubles with her boyfriend, and said that she really appreciates my advice. I feel sometimes that I missed my calling to be a counselor or something. I just like to help people through writing and giving sound advice, or just listening and comforting them when they just need a friend to talk to.
But yea, it seems he and I are in agreement now to take better care of ourselves, since we both know we do have a lot to live for.
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Oh yea, my grandmother started buying the diet sodas when I told her I might be diabetic. She is really being supportive and trying her best to get me the foods and drinks I need to feel good. I usually do the shopping, but since I have been so weak and tired lately, she goes to the store and does the shopping. She wants me to just rest and eat good and get better. As for the transition from regular pop to diet pop, well I must say that I didn't really taste a difference. I enjoy it as much as I did the regular pop.
Oh, I am so glad I can still drink the teas! I love my hot teas, and was hoping I wouldn't have to give those up too.
<< I also wanted to tell you that my husband has the same opinion as you on the water with it being so dang bland in taste. How ever we found a great water drink in different flavors at Wal-Mart that have no sugar, caffeine, or even sodium. There are several flavors to choose from and they even have my husband so happy drinking them, which he is so finicky about what he drinks and he does love these drinks. In fact my whole family loves these drinks.>>
Yes! I have seen those and had them a few years back, but haven't gotten them since then. I will definitely have to look into getting the flavored water, when I get back to the store, since I am not sure gran would know what to look for on that. So I will just keep drinking the regular water for now. But yes, they are indeed delicious, I must admit, and sooooooo much better than drinking plain ol' bland water.
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Wow, sounds like a great book, and I will indeed look for that the next time I am at my local library! I do want to get to know my body better, and feel I have become more in tune with it since turning 31 last year. I know my cycles very well, and know when I will be bitchy or grumpy, and when to expect the mood swings the most. Not to mention what foods I really crave like chocolate and sweets when PMS hits. I just have to replace those things with healthier snacks, and I know I can get used to that. I have to admit, the female body is one complicated machine, and no wonder men can't understand us or what we go through, since we are not fully understanding of all that happens to us ourselves!
I am on the 4th day now of my period, so that is why I am feeling tons better, and the swelling in my ankles is easing, as well as my tummy feeling less bloated. Just a relieved feeling, now that my period has come and now getting close to overwith soon. For a while before I started, I felt like I was about to burst I was so puffed up in places! It is amazing how much better I feel when my period eases up and is almost overwith. It is like this time in my cycle is when I get most creative, artistic, and also more positive about life and how to solve my problems.
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Awww, 7 months old! I bet he is so adorable! My friend has a 2 1/2 year old little girl and a 6 year old son, and they both are just so cute, and I love spending time with them. Both are so smart too, and just have endless energy! I am going on 32 this May 15th, and I really hope to someday settle down with a great guy, and have a couple kids. I will keep positive that the right one will come along soon. But right now I must concentrate on my health, then getting back to work, so that I can get my life back into a better flow.
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I will promise to take care of myself, and as you have read, I am already doing so! But I am REALLY hungry now, so I best go make some oatmeal now before my tummy really starts to growl.
I am so glad you like getting my posts! I tend to be a real talker, so I sometimes feel my posts turn into mini-novels as I babble on and on, but I love to talk with others, and keep in touch.
Thanks for everything!! You have a great day too!! :-)
We have a few things in common with our period being so close together since I am now on my 5th day by my time (Pacific) or 6th if your in one of the other 2 zones. I am 34 and will be 35 come July 16th, which will be here before I know it. I have been having a 35 to 36 days in my cycles due to my breastfeeding at least I think that is why and it is medium now. I use to have a 32 to 33 days in my cycle that would only last 2 days at the most, but now I have 5 days and it is no longer light. I sure miss those days. LOL I am really hoping that this might mean that I will not be needing any progesterone to help me get pregnant as I used it the other 3 times to get pregnant with one of my pregnancies ending in miscarriage. My husband has been pushing me to start trying in hopes of us having our third child before our youngest is 2 years of age, but I think I really would prefer to wait at the least until Spring to even begin to start this way my youngest will be close to being a year old. Not to say that we are not, not trying with us not using any birth control right now, which I just figure if it happens it hapens and is meant to be. I am just not going full force towards trying right now, because I would first like to get my weight down some more before I begin that journey once again.
I just know you will find the right one for you and will have children that you will just love and adore so much. Just remember that there are so many men out there and being picky is a good thing so that you get just the right one who you can learn to live with. Trust me, it does take some getting use to when it comes to living with a man since each person has their own way of how they like things and that is where compromising come sn handy. Compromising is also so hard to get use to if you have been so use to living alone for so long, which Iwas and never thought I would get married or have any children. I did change my mind about both and am currently doing both of them right now. Things happen for a reason, but doesn't mean we always understand those reasons.
I am so glad to hear that you e-mailed your friend and that he is doing better with his health, because I know how worried you were about him. I am also so glad that he wasn't upset at all with you and was just so thankful for your caring so much about him. If he can do it then you owe it to him to get yourself tested, becuase you have to consider that he is just as worried about you as you were of him. So do yourself and him a big huge favor "GET TESTED", becuase you have so many who care and love you. You also say you have so much to live for, so prove it. I really don't want to see you have the horrible eye problems I have (retinopathy, caderacs, and blood vessels) and have had more laser eye surgeries then I ever wanted, also neuropathy that causes me to not even be able to feel contractions or broken bone, and the not so wonderful kidney fun that hits you before you know it. There are so many more that can attack you if you are diabetic and you don't get yourself in treatment and do not be one of those who doesn't get themselves taken care of.
Ok, I am done and off my soap box. I have to get off of here and get me a bed time snack and get myself ready to feed my 7 month old prior to my husbands arrival from home and also get myself some sleep. Do take care and just know that we all care what happens to you, but we would all love to see you get tested to find out if this is something you need to deal with and learn more about. I hope I didn't get on your nerves with this post, because I don't want to seem pushy or rude in any shape at all. I am just very worried about you and don't want to see anything happen to you. Besides if it isn't diabetes then you might have something else such as low iron problem, a disease related to exhaustion in which I can'teven remember the name of that one right now, or something small. Also you need to stop staying in bed for so long that way you get more excercise by just moving about and that will also help to lower your blood sugar, becuase by staying in bed you are just having your body not use any sugars what so ever. Well, O gotta get off for sure now. Take care and keep me posted on how your doing and have a wonderful day!
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