Hi Susan,

This is VERY CONCERNING what you are talking about and this sound to me without a doubt to be vascular and possibly serious!   I teach English to an angiologist and we have talked masto over quite a lot and she's also had me work with her on translations of articles and presentations she has done for her field of medicine.   When you have only ONE leg swelling there is something wrong going on.   You need to have an angiologist do a good one over with you, doppler radar and mapping of your veins.   TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!   It sound to me that your flow is not good and this would explain the edema in one leg only.   If it were masto related it would be both legs.   Yes, and the redness and itching can EASILY be explained by a vascular problem there!!   In fact, vascular problems will create rashes as well and the heat can be explained by an inflammation, which this in turn would trigger the masto!!!



Susan, please take this seriously and stop denying that there is something wrong.   You make things worse with this attitude.   The photos my doctor showed me left me horrified to the point that I'm almost paranoid now with any kind of swelling, which does indeed happen.    I've had a case of phlebitis due to my masto and yes, it was one sided, hot, heavy, itchy and RED!!   It was NOT masto!!!    Yes, it did trigger the masto because any kind of infection or inflammation needs the MCs to help fight the beast!!  This ends up triggering us!!

So, please listen, call an angiologist and get an IMMEDIATE   appointment please!!

Thanks!


Lisa

BTW: I had pain that MIGHT have been a heart attack and although I'm only 45 my Dad had a massive MI at 42 and everyone in his family died of heart disease so when I say they checked my heart I mean that's all they looked at when this happened as they did it in the ER on an outpatient basis. They, Mayo, just checked my heart to make sure I wasn't having an MI and to rule out heart disease itself. My heart alone received a clean bill of health. My heart might be in great shape but I'm with you:

This seems to be a serious vascular issue that's been overlooked or dismissed as being related to something else like laying in bed for 7 days with debilitating pancreatitis. They'll dismiss it as "Oh, you haven't been up enough because you're in the hospital" when no, this happens at home when I'm moving about and the swelling from last night? For the first time ever it did not go away overnight so that's what prompted me to post. Usually it returns to normal during the night but today I woke up with it less swollen but yet still swollen.