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Swollen calves

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Edgar

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Noticed today that my calves were quite swollen and where my socks grip, there was quite a mark.Shins very tender to the touch. Ok when I got up this morning, but wondered if this was related to Type 2?
 
Edgar said:
Noticed today that my calves were quite swollen and where my socks grip, there was quite a mark.Shins very tender to the touch. Ok when I got up this morning, but wondered if this was related to Type 2?
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I have experienced swollen ankles and oddly one leg being swollen at various times. I put it down to the change of meds. Has only happened on the odd occasion.
 
There’s any number of causes, nearly all of which need to be seen by a doctor. I don’t like the sound of the tenderness. GP, soon, would be my advice. For what it’s worth, it doesn’t sound as though it’s related to diabetes.
 
Still noticing the swollen legs. My GP put it down to the Amlodipine and reduced it to 5mg form 10mg but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. I have ordered some soft grip socks to see if they help.
 
All the ~dipines are notorious for causing water retention and many people almost automatically have to also take a diuretic drug with it in order to try and counteract that.

Presumably you are prescribed it for something other than high BP because it's hardly the first choice of BP drug anyway unless other things are going on at the same time making the normal choices unsuitable.
 
I have CKD Stage 3 so maybe that's why he prescribed the Amlodpodine?
 
trophywench said:
Presumably you are prescribed it for something other than high BP because it's hardly the first choice of BP drug anyway unless other things are going on at the same time making the normal choices unsuitable.
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OH was put on Amlodipine by the hospital consultant as a first choice. No other particular co-morbidities. But it made him feel dizzy, so his GP switched it to Losartan.
 
I always understood that the ~prils - ACE Inhibitors - were the first choice for diabetes patients? Then if not eg the person got the ACE cough (like me!) they swapped it to a ~sartan - I'm on Losartan too. It's not enough now but they won't increase it because my sodium occasionally slips down to 129 - so they tried me on Felodipine and after a few days I couldn't get any shoes on at all other than a pair of worn out trainers with the laces pulled out, couldn't bend my ankles etc! I'd already stopped taking them before I could get an apt but the swelling took a little while to go - and they added Doxasozin instead.
 
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