Different Sized Legs
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armed with boundless energy fueled by the daily preds I attacked the overgrown patch of self sown tomatoes and picked them before they fell off their stalks.
A couple of pin pricks on my shin which I vaguely felt through the slightly tight, slightly unfeeling, slightly less sensitive than normal skin and simply brushed off unthinkingly. None of my usual pathetic rush to the soov (lignocaine +) to stop any swelling.
So here I am. Two days later with an oversize bit of leg. Swollen and hard down the side of my shin and calf. About mid way. About 20cm (8in) long. Stiff to walk with. And the large (3in diameter) red spotty blotchy patches from the previous couple of insect bites have come back. My world is ending. Though the swelling is now reducing.
Not to mention the itchiness. Driving me madder. And the tube of soov is nearly empty. Too late for antihistamines and I don't like them anyway.
Probably an ant bite. They breed them tough in Aus. And of course every little reaction and bit of pain now gets blamed on PMR or Pred.
I don't know what I'd do if it was something serious like a paper cut .....
Some days all that's left is to laugh.
Tomorrow I'll wear trousers instead of shorts to pick more tomatoes. They are really a lot more tasty than the shop ones.
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julian.
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But I think I'm back to it.
Leg swelling subsided with three days of 25mg pred. Now back to 6/day. I was on 5.
Almost embarrassing. Rash subsided. Redness faded and turned brownish in places. No extra blisters. The one big one burst when I knocked it on a chair leg (as one does).
Seems like it was all just a whimpy gale in a teapot (I don't do things by halves).
Can't wait for the next surprise (well perhaps I can .........).
tina-uk_cwall julian.
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EileenH julian.
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We decided long ago that "normal" is a decidedly variable baseline in PMR!