Question: My wife's (64 years old) left arm muscle swollen between elbow and shoulder and plus hot and sore. Picture someone “making a muscle” when they bend their arm but in this case the muscle on the opposite side constantly bulges, is swollen, reddish, hot and sore.

Thank you sooo much for your quick attention to this. You may need a little more info so we can better know which direction to go toward a remedy. There has been no strenuous activity or falling, the swelling started without an event around 3 weeks ago and we've been waiting for it to go back to normal on it's own and aspirins. The swelling of Lucy's hand, arm above and below the elbow increases and decreases independently of each other. Some days she can't close her hand enough to grab a tissue. Above her elbow to the shoulder is consistently swollen and the most consistently normal-looking segment is from her elbow to her wrist; although it also sometimes swells. XXXXXXX can't lift her arm above the arm rest. She can't walk to the bathroom anymore so two weeks ago, I purchased a powered lift recliner for her to get up and turn to sit on the portable toilet. She's been gradually getting weaker for about 3 months with not enough energy to do much more than eat food I bring to her.

Thank you again. That was really helpful. Just one more symptom. The past 4 days XXXXXXX has been running a 100.0 to 100.6 degree temperature. I thought her fever started only yesterday but XXXXXXX said she's been checking her temp for the past 4 days. My fault for not linking the fever to the other symptoms.