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Lymphedema in lower extremities
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Mar 11 11:06am | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
I cannot say for sure, but my calves are intermittently tight when symptoms are flaring. I'll go weeks without issue and then, placing pressure on the back of my thighs makes my calves feel tight. I don't notice anything in the feet, though. Originally, it was a tight knee.
Could also be that COVID has me sedentary where I was once very active.
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To you, stumpedandgrumped - I am not more sedentary since having COVID. The lymphedema (not named from the start; it took 9 months for my PCP to say the swelling that happened before the rash was more than 'just swelling') to say "lymphedema" or to recommend something be done. The rash persists on my inner right thigh near my knee. None of the 5 salves (4 from two ER visits; one from dermatologist) cleared that up - only the ankle rash. Oddly, in hospital ER, they drew a circle around the ankle rash so I could see if it abated; not the thigh rash. No clue why.
It is exhausting.
And like a 'good girl', I did just get the CDC recommended 65+ vacs and, now 3 days later, still incredibly sick from it with symptoms that mirror having had COVID.
It is discouraging and means I can't work and I'm missing deadlines. .. and am physically miserable.