Swelling...need advice ASAP

Thank you both for responding   I thought it was most likely due to the fqct I was on my feet too much, but needed to get opinions from someone else as it was really quite alarming to see my ankles looking like that. My mind tends to race and can jump to all sorts of wild comclusions, but I myself was not actually thinking blood clot since I had already had several of those and did not have swelling like this with those.  It was just scary since this has not happened before and actual chemo is still new to me and it seems like every day there is some new side effect showing up,  I AM on my feet a lot at work,  if  I am not standing, I am sitting on a stool.  Right now I am stilll in bed and my ankles look a lot better....not normal, but not grotesque,  In the past few weeks I have been standing on laddars, climbing lots of steps and doing a lot of things that used to never bother me at all, but am sure that those things in addition to work and staying up half the night all caught up with me.  I have been trying to get my father;'s house in shape for his 87th birthday which is this Sat,  Just to be on the safe side I will call my onco's office tomorrow and see if they think I might need a dieuretic,  I took an allergy pill yesterday which I had not taken for awhile and that pretty much dried me up,,,,think that may have been a contributing faqctor also?  I know I am supposed to drink a lot of water with the chemo I am on, but dont always get it in because I am working and sometimes we get so busy I truly do not have time to go to the bathroom so don't get my water drunk.  I don't want to be wonderwoman, but want so much to be "normal" and to carry on with the activities I have always done and know I am trying to do too much most of the time, but just can;t seem to make myself slow down. The steroids sure don't help the situation any, but when they cut them way down since I was complaining so much about not getting enough sleep, they upped them, not to where they were a few weeks ago, but up from last week when I was feeling totally drained.  Thanks again for reassuring me.  I am going for a glass of OJ and then back to sleep.  I had not heard of that one before.

I am going to onco's office as soon as I clean up.  This is one heck of a weekend to have something like this going on as I feel like I have to feed the masses......more company is coming to my Dad's and they will arrive in the AM  tomorrow.  Our group is go go tour a dam on the way to his place and then we are to lunch along the river at this winery....BUT I feel finding out what is wrong with my feet is more important so I just may meet them all later at my father's.....it's a 2 hr drive from here and I wish I was riding with them instead of driving myself, but have to haul food and stuff, plus they are all leaving on Sun and I have Mon off so was going to stay til then.  See this is how, I am.....am supposed to be discussing my swelling and just get off the beaten path....this is something that happens a lot and I am attributing it to Chemo brain.....I can forget a story in the middle of telling it.  ANyway, my ankles dont look so bad this AM, not normal, but not really big, but my feet themselves are a little swollen and red and they feel tingley so I am going to go over there and at least have a nurse take a look at me.  I worry about everything....if you have seen my history you will see I have been dealing with this for a long time and I actually deal with it quite well, but I do tend to worry about everything and anything, but I am hoping this is nothing.  If I don't post again about this it is because there is no computer access at my Dad's.  Thanks to all of you for your advice.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. 

  They called in a Rx for diazide for me, but by the time I got it the swelling was much better and now I would say in the morning my ankles are normal.  I had been on my feet a lot trying to get everything done for my Dad's birthday and company.  I am seeing the onco tomorrow and have all this written down so I can tell him what happened when.  My feet are such a mess....I am getting corns and callouses on my toes from the way I am walking....why the way I was has suddenly changed I do not know.....am also still getting cruddy toenails which break off.  I have been told this is all due to chemo.....know I am getting off easy with side effect some of you all have, but don't really know if I want to spend the rest of my life dealing with these annoyances....especially since it is painful to walk.  I called about disability today and the guy I talked to basically told me that I make too much and that unless I quit working and have proof that I am unable to work, I may as well forget it.  I am going to the SSDisability topic on this message board to see what I can find out. 

  I still have this problem and for some reason my onco does not seem to think it is a big deal, but I think it is since I did not have the problem before.  Lasix didn't do much so I am back on the diazide, but if I don't take it every day, my ankles and actually my legs below the knee swell.  One topic on here, Clinical edema, I believe did offer some good advice and opinions.  I went off the chemo I was on this week......only had two more to go, but discussed it with my onco and he agrees I was having bad SEs so I an now taking a break and am not going back on it, but will have to resume something in a few months.  Swelling was not even one of the major ones....it was the neuropathy that finally got me.....first toes, then the entire foot and I had several falls.   When it started in my hands that was it for me.....I know some women that never did get their feeling back adn I did not want to risk that.  A lot of other SEs were and still are bad, but it was really the neuropathy that was the last straw.  In the meantime I am taking diazide, but still feel we should be finding the cause for this problem and not just masking it with diuretics.  I gained 6 lbs in a day so know I am retaining water like mad....the peson who weighed me did not even comment on this which I thought odd.  6 lbs in one day?....that would make me at least ask if something was going on.  Oh well,.....maybe things will get better now that I am off the chemo.  An going to bed now as elevating them and getting off them always helps.  Maybe I should have edited the title of the topic cuz I no longer think there is urgency with this as it's been going on for quite some time now.