By friendly lurker AKA Deb on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 05:31 pm:

Hi, people. (Hi Myke! I didn't forget you.)

The background: something's wrong with my lower legs. The likely suspects are compartment syndrome, peripheral vascular disease, and/or long-term damage from shin splints.

The issue: I got my doctors to look at my shins and ankles yesterday. My ankles are permanently swollen from repeated injury, of course, but the doctors think they found some ganglions.

This is what the web says about ganglions: "A ganglion is a fluid-filled swelling of the lining of a joint or tendon." Hey, connective tissue. There's a shocker. They seem to be more common on hands, but not uncommon on ankles. More info here.

I have yet to figure out what to do, so I'm not doing anything for now. I'm seeing a physical therapist who's a gait specialist (how arcane is that?) and perhaps she'll know whether the ganglions are interfering with my ankles.

So, anyone else have ganglions?

love me, love my bumpy ankles,
--D

By Myke on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 08:04 pm:

Heya.

I occasionally have numbness in my legs... I usually attribute this to a pinched never or something ;)

No ganglions tho...

My mom saw the backs my legs the other day and saw the discolouration from my knee braces and told me to becareful, I'm apparently predisposed to vericose veins... she's got 'em.

Deb - Pop me an email - I sent you one a few weeks back.

By Margareth S on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 08:25 am:

I was told those firm and round things on the middle of each wrist, that hurt like h*ll and felt like marbles were ganglions. My GP even told me I should wait for it to get just a little bigger and then hit it with a phonebook to spread the fluid.
Untill this day I am very, very glad I never did such a thing. Three years later the 'ganglions' were still there and they turned out to be a luxation of one of the dozens of tiny bones that inhabit this region. Just imagine what would have happened...

*Not everything that is on a wrist or ankle is a ganglion.
*Ganglions are not supposed to hurt very much.
*Not every doc. knows a ganglion when (s)he sees it.

Take care,

Margareth S. (since someone is posting under Margret aswell)