does anyone suffer with swollen ankles with fibro please xxxxxxx

[miss1968]

[Gailbt]

Yes, sometimes my feet swell so much I can't get my shoes on. My hands also swell!

[nettie1261]

well i never. i went to pick up my grandson from school i can not describe the pain i was in. back feet legs pis and needles in my foot and then it went numb and pins and needles in my hand. my foot was so swollen my boot was tight so i had difficulty in walking. when i got home i took my boot off to find my ankle was swollen, so you are not the only one sweetie and i feel like a 70 yr old without a zimmer frame . its so painfull nothing with me takes the pain away.

[Hidden]

yes i have really bad fluid retention in my legs and feet xx

[miss1968]

hi everyone the only reason i ask is i have had fibro for over 11 yrs and have had swollen ankles but my left ankle is severley swollen and has started to swell around the back i get a shooting pain to my toes, looks like i have a tennis ball some days, the only reason i ask is as it is so severe now my gp has said that amount of swelling is not normally associated with fibro and have a MRI booked for 5th of march xxx

[chez34]

Yes I do, I was only diagnosed Fibro roughly round about a year and a half ago and I've gone from a size 5 to a 6 1/2 :/ I have so many pairs of gorgeous high heels sitting in my wardrobe and now a days all I get to do is look at them. I did actually buy a bigger pair a few weeks back as I was going out (an extremely rare occurrence now a days) for a meal, everything went well til I got home and fell outside my garden gate so now my new bigger shoes are all scuffed and I'm back to just looking at the other ones again Agony at the time but looking back now I can laugh so hopefully this might give yourself and any other reader a little giggle too

Soft hugs to all x

[Belles]

I also suffer with swollen ankles and feet,and occasionally my hands too.Also,i suffer with terrible pins and needles,mostly arms,hands,legs and feet,but occasionally experience this in my head and other parts of my body,does anybody else suffer this please? I also experience a very heavy lead like feeling in my legs when i walk,they go to feel so heavy i can barely lift 1 foot infront of the other!! Is this normal with fm??

[kraftyk8]

I think swollen ankles are fairly common amongst us. However, if yours are more swollen than is usual for you, you should see your GP. It is too easy for us and our GP's to assume almost any symptom can be written off as a by-product of FMS. What we need to remember is that just because we have FMS it doesn't mean we can't suffer from anything else. My swollen ankles turned out to be caused by stage 3 kidney disease that I got from taking anti-inflammatories for too long. My advice is, that if it's new or different and it lasts more than a week, ask your GP to do a full blood screen.

[miss1968]

yes my doctor is sending me for a mri on 5th june due to severity of selling and pain as she said its not normally assosiated with fibro x had a full blood screen done all normal xxx

[loll]

I have swollen ankles alot and when i do i have such a weird feeling in them too x

[LindseyMid]

It's good your GP is referring you. Anyone, particularly anyone who is not active, can have fluid retention, Fibro or not. But Fibro does not cause swelling.

Anyone who has swollen feet and hands should push for regular retesting and posisbly also a referral. Some conditions like RA do not show up in blood tests at first.

[miss1968]

hello lindsey what is ra xx

[julie66]

Hi all, i have swollen legs and hands ,thought i'd over done things at the weekend so rested legs ,yesterday called my dr for advice she told me off for not going sooner to see her and she rushed me to hospital yesterday cause she thinks i could have thrombosis ,which id very scary i had a injection of heprin last nite ,then went back this morning had to have another injection ,tomorrow i have and scan to see if i have blood clot ,then drs with tell me what treatment i have to have.

i would saw if it more swollen than normal go to gp .

This has scared me very much so anything i feel if wrong with me in future i'm straight to gp dont care how small i thing illness is .

love and hugs to all .

off for a sleep will let u know how things go in the next few days xx