Originally Posted by
Chantelst
Hi all i'm new here and have a bit of an odd health question...
Every time I ride, around two days later the backs of my calfs come up bruised. Ive never fallen, knocked, or had cramps in my legs. The bruising is never painful, but can be huge and be all beautiful shades of the rainbow. Most are smaller though like I've been repeatedly poked with a bug thumb.
I haven't cycled in about 10 years and have been keen to ride regularly again, but this is a little off putting.
I have seen my dr on a few occasions about it and all bloods come up normal (other than iron deficiency)...and we are both quite perplexed.
Has anyone else had this happen??
Thanks!!
My wife and I are 73 years old. We have been bicycling for 15 years now. About 3 years ago my wife started to notice large red rash like discolorations on the front of her thighs after a long day on the bicycles. Often somewhat itchy. These rashes would take about two days to disappear. Her family doctor used to ride bicycles and she showed him the leg rashes. He laughed and told her it was a heat rash much as a child would get and not to worry about it. Then about two years ago I started to see the same thing on my legs. Mainly on the calves. But mine resulted in some skin discoloration that does not go away. On winter rides there is no problem. just when we start to sweat on a ride. I started to wash my legs with pine tar soap in the event it were a skin bacteria problem. Common bar soaps based on modified lauric acid are noted for skin problems. The residual lauric acid left on the skin forms an ideal food for certain skin bacteria and may cause pimples on the skin.