What the Feet

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Occasional side-effect of the testosterone cream I use is dramatic and fairly goddamned annoying swelling of my feet and ankles. This wouldn't be any big deal, except that I abraded about ten square inches of skin from my left shin playing softball Friday evening, so the swelling in conjunction with the scab means I've got a lot less elasticity in the skin that's pulled when my knee and ankle bend than I'd like.

Here's hoping a brisk walk at lunch pushes that unwanted fluid the fuck out of there, because, frankly, I have shit to do that requires the full use of my legs without springing easily-avoided protein leaks.

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[thebigpants.livejournal.com]

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I've not heard of such a cream. Tell me more, it sounds so odd.

[ceosanna.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the same thing!

Old Vietnamese remedy

[katestine.livejournal.com]

Try damp salt on the swelling.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Axiron - It's a prescription medication my GP put me on because my T levels weren't merely low, they were about a third of the threshold for low-normal.

As with many other steroidal creams & medications, swelling is an occasional side effect; I tend to get it if I spend too long in my computer chair at home (which is how Saturday was spent, due to being both exhausted and scuffed up); oddly, the swelling became much more pronounced after an hour and a half with my massage therapist (who looks like he could be your Bald Dude's less-buff brother).

[thebigpants.livejournal.com]

I've learned many things living with a Dr. of Sports Medicine. Actually, the swelling isn't odd. If you're prone to inflammation, massage will trigger a bout of swelling. Massage was probably the last thing you needed if you were already swelling. I'm limited to 10 minutes or less of any massage or I have a major inflammatory response.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that swelling would follow a massage, especially the deep tissue work I tend to need and receive; the muscles relax and everything is like HEY GUYS HOLY SHIT WE CAN MOVE AROUND, LET'S GET SOME FLUID UP IN THIS HEEZY or whatever it is that my muscles, circulatory system, and fluid membranes say to each other.

I very much needed the massage elsewhere - there were a pile of adhesions and tight spots in my upper back from that deadlift session on Tuesday, combined with three consecutive hellish weeks at work causing stress to roost there. Tight IT bands and medial glutes got a bit of working, but there was, in the main, minimal work done to the scuffed leg.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

What do the elderly, or even the non-elderly, Vietnamese say about Epsom Salt baths?

[missmorte.livejournal.com]

I have this issue all the time because my knees naturally swell and I have many surgery scars so they often get stretched to the point of bleeding. Two options that work well for me; the first is to buy some bio-oil and put that on the skin. the second is cheaper and works better but is sticky so therefore a bit messy is to poke a hole in vitamin e capsule and put that on the skin.

[katestine.livejournal.com]

I tend to tune my mum out when she enthuses about Epsom salts bc I never have em in the house. I have no idea what they are supposed to do.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Direct E cream on the wound > vitamin E in pill/capsule form, then?

[missmorte.livejournal.com]

Yep just the pills.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I use them to deal with soreness, mostly. Taken internally, the magnesium can serve as a laxative, but... I don't drink my bathwater.

(I usually have some on hand b/c I buy a bag or carton when I go to the pharmacy; I happened to use the last of mine the other night, but I have to go in to pick up a prescription and some other stuff anyway tomorrow.)