Yes, Elizabeth.  This is what happened when I was first diagnosed with
RA.  I went to bed on a Sunday night just fine, by morning I could not
roll over.  I could not stand the sheet rubbing against my foot.  It
changed colors many times.  Finally on Thursday, I went to my
internist.  Between him and a foot doctor, I saw a doctor 5 times over
the next ten days.  It finally went down and I was told to enjoy life.
The left foot promptly swelled up, and that clued my doctor into RA.

Good luck!

Take care,

Vickie B.

Sounds like Rose's evil leg thing.
Duckie

This does sound like the evil foot thing that i have experienced about
every six weeks for the past few years. For me, high dose prednisone
was the drug of choice, and i would take 60 mg the first night, then
60 mgs the next morning followed by 60 for a few days until i started
the taper. After the loading dose, the swelling would go down by half,
but the leg would look redder. The pain decreased by half as well.
My symptoms stopped after I stopped remicade.
The doctor thought that it looked like mediterranean fever. I would
have a high temp along with the other symptoms.

This is one of the most painful things i have experienced when the
skin was touched. It is more painful than bursitis and the ache of RA.
Recent cases have seen teh redness and swelling travel further up the
leg, and in both legs instead of just one.

I am so glad that I have not had to deal with this lately. I stopped
remicade in March, and have not had a recurrence. The doctor
eventually thought it was a  fefractory form of RA, or extremely acute
tenosynovitis.

It helps to take a good picture of it to show your Rd.
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