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Ooohhh! Thank you! That advice is very much needed! I've always been active, and this new set back is difficult for me to accept, I've always pushed myself to the limit and never thought that it might do more harm than good... (I'm stupid!) Thank you!

Thank you for your advice! I do lack patience...

Well I'm still being diagnosed, they know I have Lupus they're just confirming it, so asking a doctor what exercises to do might be a little ways away yet until everything's confirmed on paper. But I agree with you! I should find some lighter exercises, I just don't know what yet.

I only drink black tea and water so there's not much need to measure liquids, but yes, I weigh everything and measure everything out. I try to be as honest as I can be with myself about what I eat and how much I eat.

Thanks for everyone's replies and concern, it's greatly appreciated. Turns out my legs swelled because I has lupus and had glandular fever at the time... I just thought I had a cold.

The only reason I won't see a doctor is because this HAS happened before (I did go to see a doctor about it, and a fully qualified friend with more than ten years of ambulance work) and I am in bad health. I'm always around the doctors, I went when this began and it was nothing to worry about. Like I said, it's happened…

Thanks for the quick reply. I highly doubt I need to see a doctor though, this has happened before, in my arms. I have a close friend in the medical profession and she says I've just torn a few ligaments. I also have an auto-immune disease that the doctors recognize but can't treat, so my body hates anything new, such as…