I came to check in this forum to see if anyone else has had this strange phenomenon of foot/ankle swelling, as it seems to have started, very mildly, when I had been vaping about a month or so, and just seems to keep getting worse, and with the timing coinciding with vaping, I wondered if somehow the vaping could be causing or contributing to it.
Yes, I sit here at the desk all day, but I did that before, too, doing web design all day, when I was still a smoker. About the only difference is that as a smoker, I would get up from here about every 30-45 mins to go have a smoke. Now, I may get up that often to go to the bathroom, refill the tank, get something to drink, etc, but it might be somewhat less often than I would get up to go smoke.
My feet/ankles seem pretty much normal when I first get up, but all thru the day, the swelling seems to increase, to the point that the back of my legs, just above the ankles, are quite sore. I've started wearing ace bandages on both feet/ankles, and wearing support-stocking knee-highs, but it doesn't seem to be helping. About the only thing that does seem to help is elevating my feet above my heart, and the longer I can keep them that way, the more it helps, thus the near-normal state of feet/ankles in the morning.
I had wondered if this could be some strange PG toxicity, since my juice is 85% PG; I've tried 85% VG when they were out of my usual, but it gave me an awful feeling in my chest like something that wouldn't cough up, and I have asthma, so I figure it's just too heavy for me to be inhaling (VG).
The only doctor I have is the one I see once a year for my asthma checkup, and I have no insurance, so I can't just be running to the doc for what may be nothing much, but I just need to know if this may somehow be related to vaping. I really don't want to and don't plan to go back to cigarettes, because whatever this is, it can't be worse for me than smoking, but maybe I just need to ease up on the vaping a little, instead of just vaping at will all the time. If I slightly increased my nic level, I could probably manage it much as I managed smoking, like once or twice an hour.
One other thing -- even with increased water consumption, the leg cramps I've suffered for years and years (probably from the PG in my asthma inhaler) had gotten a lot worse, with vaping, so I've started drinking my evening powerade with a big glug of tonic water in it, for the quinine, to prevent the leg cramps. I suppose that might also be a culprit.
Any thoughts on this that anyone may have, I'd really love to hear. I was disappointed that all the other threads on this particular topic are quite old, and closed, so I couldn't engage in those discussions.
Thx,
Andria
Yes, I sit here at the desk all day, but I did that before, too, doing web design all day, when I was still a smoker. About the only difference is that as a smoker, I would get up from here about every 30-45 mins to go have a smoke. Now, I may get up that often to go to the bathroom, refill the tank, get something to drink, etc, but it might be somewhat less often than I would get up to go smoke.
My feet/ankles seem pretty much normal when I first get up, but all thru the day, the swelling seems to increase, to the point that the back of my legs, just above the ankles, are quite sore. I've started wearing ace bandages on both feet/ankles, and wearing support-stocking knee-highs, but it doesn't seem to be helping. About the only thing that does seem to help is elevating my feet above my heart, and the longer I can keep them that way, the more it helps, thus the near-normal state of feet/ankles in the morning.
I had wondered if this could be some strange PG toxicity, since my juice is 85% PG; I've tried 85% VG when they were out of my usual, but it gave me an awful feeling in my chest like something that wouldn't cough up, and I have asthma, so I figure it's just too heavy for me to be inhaling (VG).
The only doctor I have is the one I see once a year for my asthma checkup, and I have no insurance, so I can't just be running to the doc for what may be nothing much, but I just need to know if this may somehow be related to vaping. I really don't want to and don't plan to go back to cigarettes, because whatever this is, it can't be worse for me than smoking, but maybe I just need to ease up on the vaping a little, instead of just vaping at will all the time. If I slightly increased my nic level, I could probably manage it much as I managed smoking, like once or twice an hour.
One other thing -- even with increased water consumption, the leg cramps I've suffered for years and years (probably from the PG in my asthma inhaler) had gotten a lot worse, with vaping, so I've started drinking my evening powerade with a big glug of tonic water in it, for the quinine, to prevent the leg cramps. I suppose that might also be a culprit.
Any thoughts on this that anyone may have, I'd really love to hear. I was disappointed that all the other threads on this particular topic are quite old, and closed, so I couldn't engage in those discussions.
Thx,
Andria
