My feet started turning color after hysterectomy in 2000. When ever I am standing or sitting with legs down they turn purple. Everyone notices and asks me why. I have restless leg syndrome on occasion. I do not have any pain.   \nThank You
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increase Ur water intake so that the blood and everything flows freely....u could have deep vein thrombosis which is clotted veins in the feet that do not let circulation of the blood pass through efficiently enough
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Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sleep disorder that causes tingling, pulling, creeping or painful sensations in the legs at night. This sensation is brought on by lying down in bed or sitting for prolonged periods, such as while driving or at a theatre. RLS typically occurs in the evening, making it difficult to fall asleep. Often, people with RLS want to walk around and shake their legs to help relieve the uncomfortable sensation.\n\nWhat Are the Symptoms of RLS? \nRLS symptoms include uncomfortable leg sensations like cramping or tingling generally in the calf region of the leg. When RLS is advanced, a person may feel these symptoms in the hands and arms. Unusual sensations typically surface at nighttime and at rest. Often, sensations can be reduced or eliminated by stretching, walking, or exercising the affected muscles. As a result of these symptoms, people with RLS often have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep.\n\nWhat Causes RLS? \nThe exact cause of RLS is unknown; however, stress appears to make the condition worse. Pregnancy can also bring on the syndrome, as can anemia (particularly due to low iron levels), kidney problems, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Caffeine and some prescription medications contribute to the development of RLS in some cases. In addition, RLS has been found to be a genetic syndrome, as parents with RLS can pass it down to their children.\n\nThere is evidence that RLS, like Parkinson's disease, has been found to be accompanied by a selective destruction of dopamine neurons (nerve cells) in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. The destruction of these neurons affects motor control in the body and can contribute to leg discomfort at night in cases of RLS. Other studies showed that there may be a deficiency in specific receptors in the brain that regulate iron in those that suffer from RLS. Research is actively being conducted to further investigate these relationships.\n\nHow Is RLS Diagnosed? \nYour doctor may ask you questions about your family health history (for example, if you have any family members with RLS) and will take note of symptoms like sleepiness or insomniainsomnia. Additionally, your doctor will conduct a full physical and neurological exam to check for nerve damage or blood vessel problems and may order a series or blood tests to rule out medical disorders associated with RLS. However, there are no tests designed specifically for diagnosing RLS.\n\nWho Gets RLS? \nPeople of any age, including children, can get RLS. It may affect women slightly more than men and typically strikes older adults with an increased severity. Young people who have RLS or who show the symptoms of RLS are usually dismissed as having growing pains or are considered to be overexerting themselves during physical activity. About 5% to 10% of the U.S. population suffers from RLS.\n\nHow Is RLS Treated? \nRLS is treated in different ways, depending on the intensity of the symptoms. Using an ice pack or heating pad, taking a warm bath, exercising, or lowering caffeine intake will sometimes alleviate the problem. For more severe symptoms, medications are often prescribed. These medications may include dopamine drugs, which often are prescribed to help Parkinson's disease patients. Dopamine drugs stimulate dopamine activity and have been found very helpful in easing RLS pain. Other medications that may be helpful to control the symptoms of RLS are sleeping pills, pain medication or medicines commonly used to treat epilepsy (recurrent seizures).\n\nTips to Control RLS Symptoms \nAvoid caffeine, alcohol and tobacco. \nMassage the calf and legs regularly. \nStretch your legs at the beginning and end of each day. \nExercise. Some people with RLS find that running in place for a short period of time alleviates the symptoms of RLS. \nMaintain a regular sleep schedule since fatigue may worsen symptoms. \nIf your symptoms are so severe that exercising or stretching the legs becomes painful, it is b
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My Dr. and I just discusses this last week. Not all people who go through that are going through it due to being lazy. I have limited things i can do as of exercise as i was a passenger in a car accident that almost broke my neck. My feet are bad and i can't walk much or use a tread mill.\n\nDr. talked about this due to trying to help me lower my blood pressure, diabetes, high cholestrol, ect.\n\n I will review all the info here and all the sites you listed and talk to my Dr. again. Thank you Ziggy for your information.
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I'm not a diabetic, but i know about ankle pain. 2 yrs ago I ws in acar accident and broke my heel and taylor joint (that's under the ankle joint). Also the ligaments, tendons , nerves, and blood vessels were damaged. My toenails didn't grow for 8 months! On the upside of that my pedicure really lasted! Ha! The swelling was horrendous! From my knee down to my toes was the same size. I was in a cast for 6 weeks and wore an equalizer boot to my knee for a year. The swelling went down about 6 months after I got out of the boot. I still have lots of pain and suffering, and my doctor and i are contemplating joint fusion. The sound of that is scary to me, like will I be left with a limp for life. (I already limp but I keep hoping it will gradually go away). You're not alone and now I know I'm not either!
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My girlfriend had this and after her operation it subsided though. You need to return to your doctor. Obviously something didn't go right.
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Convalescence is an individual thing.   You didn't say how they did the hysterectomy, if it was vaginal or abdominal, but either one is pretty traumatic to a body.  You can get slightly anemic after any surgery, and if you were borderline to start, that would leave you feeling fatigued.  The wind is likely due to a system getting things moving along again, after the days post-op eating jello and soft things.  The trick is to keep with the good diet, although it should probably be on the blandish side- no curries or such as that.  Eat foods which aid movement, like raisins and prunes, and drink loads of liquids.   Try to get moving a bit more each day, but not to the point you exhaust yourself.  Move as slowly or as quickly as you feel you can, and perhaps just a tad more.  So far as your daily walk goes, that sounds perfect.  For the boredom, well, go visit or invite a close friend in for tea and a chat.  Pick up the book you've been thinking of reading, start a new hobby project.  You may move slowly, but you should start getting yourself back into the swing of things.  You might be feeling a bit of hormone swing, possibly to a depression, since the hysterectomy rather puts things to an abrupt end.  The HRT will go a long way to helping with that, and getting you back to feeling like your old self.  Give it time and things will get back to normal.  Possibly better than the old normal, as your old health problems are now gone.   If you like, you can take a chewable multivitamin, mineral supplement.  That will get the iron and nutrients back into the system, and if you are having a problem with anemia, you should note some improvement in the course of a few weeks.  Meantime, the vitamin B will help you feel less fatigued and irritable from the inactivity.  Chewable are prefered to regular sort that you swallow whole, as those sometimes don't get digested soon enough.  Chewables get into the system more efficiently.  If you have to, get a children's chewable.  It sounds as if you are on the right course for recovery, and doing all the sensible things just right.  Just try to be a bit more patient with yourself, and soon enough you will be back to full steam.  I wouldn't get concerned if it takes you a month to 6 weeks to fully recover, though if you are bothered, by all means take it up with your physician and see what they have to say.
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i have it happen occassionaly at work, when i bend down to do something, then stand back up, things spin and change color.  if this is consistently a problem, i'd definitely call your doctor.  if it's just once in a while, i wouldn't worry too much, just make sure you're taking care of yourself as far as diet and exercise and the like.
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You might have restless leg syndrome.  You can look that up and see if you have the symptoms.  Or, you're on your feet too long or possibly sitting too long.  Would have to know what type of work you did...but if you sit for a long time, it will cause circulation problems that can become serious because the blood is pooling in your veins.  Or, if you're on your feet all day long, fatigue will cause your legs to hurt.  Hope you get some much needed rest today.  See a doc if this continues, please.  Godloveya.
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I am sorry to hear about your recent surgery, that can be a very tough one I am sure. I had a hysterectomy to remove everything including a grapefruit size cyst a number of years ago. I too was surprised at how long it took for the discomfort to go away, I have to agree with the other post expect a good year. Then it became numb and has stayed that way. Try and avoid wearing tight pants with anything that cuts across that area and that might help. However, if you see redness,swelling,any kind of excretion be sure and call your doctor right away. Remember when they do that kind of surgery they are cutting through a number of layers and you have stitches on the inside as well. If you are the least bit concerned or have any other questions,,I too agree that you need to contact your Doctor, July is not a great deal of time to heal from a major surgery as yours, take care of yourself, don't do what you aren't supposed to,easier said then done but it will help to avoid scar tissue.\nTake care of yourself Hon!\nMagnolia
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I have no idea of what caused this. But you are not the only one out there who has that same pain. I started going through that same pain about when I turned 10 I am now 12. I fell like screaming bloody murder. I am a really tough girl. If I am in pain it would be super pain for others. I wake up at 12 o'clock around 2 or 3 times a week. I fall back asleep and then wake up again at 3 o'clock and then o'clock. I hardly get any sleep now and my grades have been falling. I am normally a straight A student but I have made 3 C's in the past month. But my grades have been so high before those grades did not affect the overall grade. Th pains have been getting worse. I know what you are going through. To prove how tough I am I have had 10 toe surgeries. 8 on my right big toe and 2 on my left big toe. On the left big toe I had one surgery with pain medication and the other one without. ON the right big toe I have had 1 asleep 1 with pain medication and 6 without pain medication. If I have any more toe surgeries I could lose my toe. That is scary!!
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My feet are getting heavy, and I've lost feeling in my toes. What is that odd sensation in my stomach - like rocks weighing heavily?? My back is stiff, so I try to move. Man, my feet are heavy. I move my legs and it's as if someone  tied cement blocks to them. A creeping sensation moves up my legs, and I stop trying to move them. \nMy eyes hurt. My head feels stiff, as if my skin is crunchy. I try to call out, but my mouth doesn;t want to move - like I am wearing a clay mask and it has dried. What is happenieng to me? My fingers are stiffening, and I am now numb to the waist. I can't move my legs!!  I try to scream, but my vocal cords are too frozen. My nose is numb.  My breasts are starting to feel heavy as lead, and I can hardly hold up my head. The numbness creeps downward, and my fingers are like bananas as I try to type. IO amn makl[oing so manny typpos .. I cannnottr type wellllll,... I cannnt breeeaathe .. sdhfgsdajklllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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If your certain your not diabetic than it is time to see a Dr. and get a referal to a specialist.\nWhat you describe suggests reduced circulation and there are many conditions that this symptom can be attributed to.\n\nNeuropathy or the pain from it responds well to a med called Neurontin.\nBut I am guessing you have been treated since you seem to know the name of your condition?\n\nThis could be anything from wearing tight heels to a vascular/heart condition.\nPlease pursue this with your doctor.
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Since you've been fine up until now and the situation has persisted for a week you really should see a doctor about this.  The tingling makes me think something's causing circulation problems in your legs. On the plus side, your symptoms do *not* match having a blood clot in your leg.
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Not enough information there to be sure, but there are always possibilities.\n\nIt could be your feet have grown or flattened and are larger than they used to be. Your shoes may be too tight.\n\nWater retention, which could come from anything from insufficient exercise or sitting in a computer chair too long to low circulation to other more complicated (and some potentially dangerous) things. Even pregnancy. (I don't know your gender or age so I'll suggest that.)\n\nNerve changes, which can have many causes, some as simple as wearing a belt too tight or sitting on a wallet in your back pocket, and some being a sign of something else in your body out of kilter.\n\nIf it's worth asking here, it's worth asking your physician about -- from curiosity, not from fear. \n\nThey're trained to assume and check for the worst things first and only when they prove that those aren't the cause, move onto the less alarming causes. They do this because they'd rather check for the worst and be wrong than to miss checking and be dead wrong. It's just the way they are. Would you want them to be any other way?\n\nIf there's any extreme or rapid change or if pain starts anywhere in your legs, have it checked right away. That'd be a sign that there's a little more happening than a little stiffness and numbness.\n\n----------\nNow that you've asked your first question, go read and rate some others. You can show your experience here by adding on some points, and rating answers is the easiest way to do it. You get to do 20 each day.
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Just like charbar I have that pain in my feet when I get up.You might want to see a chiropractor for a check up.It could be poor circulation of blood, or possibly pressure on some nerves in your back.I have some back problems myself.
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Not only does it pinch the blood vessels and cause your butt muscles (gluteus maximus etc) to starve, but you are also pinching off nerves which is why it can get numb.  Sometimes if you stand up after that long journey your feet get really tingly, it's for that same reason, blood is rushing through causing the sensation...it also feels really wierd.
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What kind of discoloration is it?  Could it be from the dye in your shoes? Do you have diabetes? If it is bluish, your shoes are way too tight and you're cutting off the circulation!!! Not good I don't care how cute the shoes are!!  Soak your feed in warm water, gently massage them with lotion and put on some socks.  If you still have the problem in a day or so, see a doctor.  Blessings.