why do my feet swell up like balloons and look like I have sun burn. this goes up to the calf's of my legs.?

Question

The swelling makes my skin so tight that it l leaves marks.It looks like it is going to break open and bleed. It hasn't yet. When I prop them up and it hurts so bad, with cramps, and burns that I must get up and walk. Then when I walk on them and the swelling gets worst. I can't sleep cause my feet ,must move.I go to sleep only when I get so tired that my body just finally goes to sleep and I use the help of sleeping pills. I take 2 mg of requip. I have been checked out for blood clots and don't have any. I have used ice. It works for a short time. I take fluid pills. Does anyone have any suggestion to relieve the pain and swelling. I am looking for so type of relief. Thanks for any ideas!!!!

Answer 1

I would say Edema and you are on fluid pills. Watch the salt in your diet and loose weight. Try to keep the legs elevated when you are sitting, elevated above the hips, not just on a foot stool and try getting some good cardiovascular work outs. The lymphatic system unlike the blood system does not have a pump, as in Heart, so needs the blood system to be pumping to get rid of fluid. Obviously fluid retention, gravity takes over and it goes down, ankles, legs swell. You could also try massage.

Answer 2

that is cellitius/go to er next time it happens/go to dr next time it happens /so he can see for himself/infection in skin/good luck