I drank tons of water and ate lots of food and stretched them out and as the day went on they started to get warm and puffy.
This morning my right leg felt much better, (still some puffiness but just a regular stiff muscle thing going on), but my left leg…was swollen from the knee to the hip bone and felt like there was fluid between the muscle and skin but yet I still have full range of motion-weirdest feeling ever, just felt sick. I taught at Langara from 9-2 and it started burning while I was teaching and it was weird because going up the stairs was OK, but going down the stairs felt like the muscle in the quad wasn’t there and were just going to give away.
I remember how sore my legs were after doing tabata squats the first day but this is totally different, then it was muscle pain trying and difficult to walk up stairs, now the muscles themselves don’t hurt, it feels like the muscles aren’t there and its something in between the skin and muscles and walking down the stairs is the challenge.
SO I went to the Drs. office on my way home.
I came so close to punching the guy in the face. His first comment was “Wow there is a lot of Inflammation”, but I think my favourite comment was “I don’t think there are any broken bones”-what bones am I going to break in my quad from doing jumping squats??? Then he asked me to demonstrate a squat and his response was “wow that’s a nice squat” and then he brought another dr. in and said “check out this squat” and commented on how strong I was (I sware If he asked me to do one more squat I was going to punch him) but then he showed the other doctor my quad and said he has never seen anything like it and that there is obviously some muscle strain but has no clue why there is so much fluid build up or what is causing it. They pretty much suggested I take lots of anti-imflamitorries and wrote a referral to see a physio and left it as “don’t do any more jumping squats and hopefully it will just go away on its own and the muscle will rebuild”.
But now I’m off to have an ice bath and will get my sisters husband (who is a rehabilitation therapist) to look at it tomorrow…
Anybody have any tricks to get swelling in the quads down?
