Posted on 11/25/2022 1:45:41 PM PST by djf
Ok I have swelling legs - they are swollen about 7-12%.
I have a problem with swollen legs. Compression hose, lie on the floor and raise your legs and rest them on the wall for 15 minutes.
You STILL have two arms! Loose one.
If you eat things with a high amount of salt in them you can retain excess water.
Potassium helps to balance out water when too much sodium is in the body.
The general issue of edema is too much fluid retention, and that be due to a number of reasons. High sodium, kidney issues, heart/circulatory issues.
People like us can only suggest possibilities, your doc is the one who on the hook for liable info. :)
While playing around with my plutonium pit, it went critical and irradiated me. I taste iron in my mouth and dancing blue lights are in my eyeballs. What are your suggestions?
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Reminds me, there was an historical incident where a guy accidentally stuck his head in a particle accelerator. Surprisingly, he actually survived, although he did suffer some facial paralysis and hearing loss in one ear.
“Unknown to Bugorski, the accelerator was still running, and the warning lights that would have alerted Bugorski of the hazard had been switched off during a previous experiment, and had not been turned back on. As soon as his head crossed the invisible beam of proton, his brain was zapped. Bugorski felt no pain, but he reportedly saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns.””
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/02/anatoli-bugorski-man-who-stuck-his-head.html
My leg swells sometimes, but it goes away.
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One of my legs to swell quite often. But I’m 64 now and it hardly swells at all.
>>While playing around with my plutonium pit, it went critical and irradiated me.
On August 21, 1945, Daghlian was working on a criticality experiment, attempting to build a neutron reflector. He was working alone and late at night. While working on the experiment, the neutron counter indicated placing the last brick would cause the assembly to go supercritical. While slowly backing away before placing the tungsten carbide brick, he accidentally dropped it. Already having received the initial blast of neutron radiation, he disassembled the pile, exposing himself to additional gamma radiation. He died 25 days later at the hospital in Los Alamos.
On Tuesday, May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin was demonstrating a criticality experiment that involved gradually bringing together two beryllium-coated halves of a sphere that held plutonium at its core- without allowing the halves to touch- and recording the increasing rate of fissioning. Then, in one fateful moment, the screwdriver slipped.
Louis Slotin
A blue glow flashed from the sphere and the Geiger counter clicked furiously. Slotin, exposed to nearly 1,000 rads of radiation (well above a lethal dose), reacted instinctively and knocked the spheres apart. His action stopped the chain reaction and prevented the seven other individuals in the room from being exposed to the same high levels of radiation as he experienced. Slotin’s health rapidly deteriorated and he spent his last nine days receiving around-the-clock care as he went through the ravages of radiation sickness, passing away on May 30, 1946.
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/atomic-accidents
Get to the ER now
Honestly, without knowing your condition, meds, and history…no one is going to be correct.
If you are obese,high blood pressure, and not very active…it could be one set of things.
If you are none of those things, it could be other stuff.
Finally, it could be cancer, CHF, blood clots, or kidney disease.
There’s probably no butter handy, so rub some dirt in it.
Seriously, what did you expect posting a medical question to a site where a popular opinion is “vaccines were created by George Soros and Bill Gates to reduce earth’s population” . You are seeking medical advice here ? (assuming not a troll question)
It always amazes me when strangers ask strangers important health questions and then consider their advice. Even worse, strangers offer the proper treatment.
How long have your legs been swollen, and how far up does the swelling go? Short of breath? Pitting (leaves an indentation when you press on it?)
Welcome to FR. What do you expect us to do? If OP is reading any of this, there’s 1) little hope, or 2) little to worry about.
I always thought SOB meant something else.
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S.O.B. (Official) Caution: language
I always say short of breath when I mean short of breath. Why would that need an acronym?
That depends. Are you in a space craft, or flying through space naked? Either way, you're shit out of luck, and will probably burn to a crisp upon re-entry. But, look at it this way, on your way back, you'll get the perfect tan you've always wanted, at least for a short while before turning into a crispy critter.
If you can catch your head, rub some dirt on it.
If available, take a low dose aspirin (81mg), get to urgent care immediately.
Pull the arrow out?
In the years since, he gets a steam and sauna about once or twice a month to maintain his legs.
>> My face is literally on fire and smoke is coming from my ears. I smell burnt hair. Any ideas on what I should do?
Call a priest, stat. You need an exorcism.
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