Hi Josephine
Here are the answers:-
1. anterior - left leg.
2.pain levels are 3-4
3. pain medication - was prescribe Tramadol but had to stop these as turned out I was allergic to it. Not taking anything except for ibuprofen 2 at night.
4. icing leg when I get into bed at night. 10 mins, then another 10 mins after 1 hour has elapsed. I don’t sleep much..
5. elevating leg each nigh when i get into bed for 15 mins.
6. activity levels very high - housework, cooking, cleaning, shopping, washing, vacuuming, dusting, erecting verge garden with post and wire fence, blue metal floor, corrugated iron veg beds, erecting 200m blue metal and brick path, bricklaying, gardening, raking, clearing fire trail of branches, burning spring wood piles, filling trailer with bricks, taking bricks to dump and off loading them, taking misc rubbish to dump in trailer, recycling this, fixing water pumps as we are on tank and climbing up on top of tanks to check water levels and sanitize, cleaning gutters, painting, sanding and gap filling, office work. walking, swimming.
7. no exercises as get enough doing house and yard work
no exercises as get enough doing house and yard work
I see a lymphodema physiotherapist as have this due to removal of pelvic lymph nodes due to cancer. Do not do any physiotherapy exercises.
Hope this is helpful, Josephine.
Cheers
Pamela