Maximus-minimus

· 16 Sep 2020

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I've been to the GP third week in a row.

For a few days I had a burning pain in my mainly left popliteal fossa, but well above where my compression stockings are. I sometimes have it that the silicone edge feels a bit pinching and itchy and then I smear with Aloe Vera. Yes, officially that is not allowed, but it softens and the compression stockings stay well with it. Yeah, I've tried body lotion once, but then my compression stockings go down.
So now also smeared with Aloe Vera. One time it softened more than the other. Monday I had lymph drainage, but Monday night I had such a burning pain in my popliteal fossa up to my buttock and especially left, but right (lymphatic edema leg) also does some.

At first I had planned to discuss it soon during my telephone appointment with the internist, but the burning so bad and I also occasionally have some pain shoots on top and on the outside side of my thigh. There's really nothing to see, so just to be sure I went to the general practitioner yesterday.

There is a strange, busy time coming for me and it was just not nice not to take any further action. The bulge on the inside of my left leg just below my knee is still there, but according to the GP it was smaller. Now the night before, on the advice of the physiotherapist, we had taken pictures by chance, and my husband and I both find it no less.
However, the general practitioner did not like it. I'm worried about that leg, but also my lymphatic edema leg, because I'm suffering more from this now than I've been in recent years. I had not slept well because of the burning pain and I have little desire to be in bandages like 9 years ago because physio and dermatologist were not on the same page. Now it doesn't mean that I have lymphatic edema on my other leg, but it plays quite honestly.
I was pretty emotional about it. Now I'm probably also an emotional person, but apparently the general practitioner thought differently. She started talking about that emotional is because I want things to run the way I cover it, and if things go differently, I'm going to start thinking doomsday and whether I shouldn't start with anti-depression again.
I've been on antidepressants for a couple of years. The main reason was 5 years of terrorist noise pollution, moisture problems and the increasing loss of my health. I still believe that I was wise to use it at that time, but after months of dissipation I stopped on 6 March 2020. However, during the corona crisis I had a number of weeks telephone conversations with the poh ggz every other week and we ended that to all satisfaction..
If necessary, I can naprox with stomach protector or tramadol with paracetamol and I can just walk and cycle and that was actually the most important thing I wanted to know.
An hour later, however, the phone rang. The GP called that she thought it was strange about the bump on the inside just below my knee and that she still wants me to have an ultrasound, so that's what we'll do tomorrow.
I took a naproxen last night, because I couldn't sleep again because of the burning pain. Eventually a good night's sleep and at this time the pain is not easy.


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