I think I just figured out what part of this is...and I want to beat my head against the wall that it took me so long to recognize the symptom.

When I had steroids in 2009, I had a bit of edema for a few months after I was done with them. Had to do a lot of exercising (treadmill walking mostly) to help that go away. I'm really wondering if this is edema again. Feels like it!


Last summer, after having steroids I again had a bunch of edema, also made worse from the neurontin that I was taking back then. (neurontin makes my feet swell up) Later last summer, I was taking lyrica (which is chemically similar to neurontin) and my whole body swelled up with edema. It was pretty strong right at the small of my back where I've got it now.

I did steroids just before Xmas (oral) and I'm now starting to wonder if this is leftover edema from having the steroids. My feet have been swollen since around the time I was taking the steroids, and now I'm wondering if the fact that I feel like I did when I was taking lyrica (full body puffiness and some weird feeling numbness that doesnt quite feel the same as when the MS makes me numb) would be the edema getting worse because I havent done anything to help the swelling the steroids give me to move along and it's gotten worse and moved up to my low back.

I've been drinking my water, and that seems to helping some, but I still feel...full. Left ankle is pretty chunky. I think I'm going to start exercising at the gym tomorrow (recumbent bike) and see if I can get my doctor to see me sooner than his nurse said I could.

I've had this happen a couple of times now, you'd think I'd recognize the signs instead of immediately leaping at the MS excuse.

The thing that made me realize tonight that it's probably edema is the pain around the left thigh that I've got right now. When that got really bad back when I had the edema from the lyrica, it was the biggest clue I had a problem.

Since we had a snowpocalypse and an icemageddon the past couple of days and the wind is blowing so hard we have snow-nadoes swirling around in the street I cant exactly go outside and walk it off. I started walking in place some tonight, and climbing up and down the stairs and putting my feet up. I think I need to get my doctor involved on this one.

I hope that there isnt any other medication involved in this. Anyone know if baclofen or valium can cause edema?