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Always_Believe · 03-28-2015, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Littlepaw

Hello all,

I am curious if anyone shares this symptom. For a long time it made me question if I had erythromelalgia which has some symptom overlap with CRPS. If I walk on too a warm day, overheat, leave my foot down too long, drink ANY wine or beer (bummer) or eat spicey food (second bummer)...I get a red all over (looks like sunburn) foot with veins that pop out like Bic pens. Then it really starts to hurt. It tends to happen most at the end of the day unless I go walk in the sun on a toasty afternoon.

For lack of another term I call it a "vascular" flare. I can watch it and feel it start with red patchy areas or red at the ankle and toes that eventually fills in. Elevating my foot will turn it normal color and placing it in cool water immediately relieves symptoms. Kinda weird and has baffled my doctors...sometimes I feel if I could get this one thing controlled I could deal with the rest. Ugh! and summer is coming in Texas. My foot is scared.

Thanks in advance,
Littlepaw

One of the first 'major' things that happened (after the nerve palsy) was June last year, 5 weeks after my meniscectomy, we went on a cruise for my youngest daughter's HS graduation. Two days into the 7 day trip, my leg started swelling. I rested on the top deck one morning for about an hour before we disembarked for Puerto Rico. I ended up with a VERY swollen leg that looked like it was sunburned. I went to medical the next day & they treated me for DVT (even though all the tests were negative). It was horrible. Not sure how one leg could have gotten THAT much more sun than the other, but it's still darker than the right and I still swell big time when I've been on my feet too long (on any kind of day). I don't drink or care much for spicy food, so I don't know about that.
You are most definitely not the only one.