By evening my legs feel heavy and puffy. What helps?

Heaviness and swelling are where a self-care answer has to stop and a medical workup has to happen.

Red flags first, because leg swelling is where a clinician earns their keep: one leg bigger than the other with pain or warmth (clot), shortness of breath or lying flat being worse (heart), fever with a red tender calf, sudden swelling in pregnancy, or pitting that leaves a dent for a minute. Those need same-day care, not a forum. If your legs just feel heavy and tight by evening and both look the same, that is usually gravity plus long standing or sitting. Chinese medicine calls this dampness with a downward tendency - heaviness, tightness, worse late in the day, better after elevating - which is a description of what to watch, not a test result. Self-care that is low-risk: calf pumps every hour you are seated, ten minutes of legs above heart level in the evening, walking, and pressing the calf muscles firmly for a minute or two (pressure only, nothing with needles). Compression socks are worth asking a pharmacist about.

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