Why Your Legs Ache At 9 PM When You Stopped Working At 5

Twenty-two years of twelve-hour shifts, and by bedtime my legs would still be throbbing.

By Denise Mackey · Sponsored Content

Louisville, KY · Updated this week · 6 min read

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Denise Mackey spent twenty-two years working twelve hour shifts before the problem stopped being the shift and started being the evening. (Photo: Daily Health Briefs)

The Hard Part Comes After You Sit Down

Anyone who works on their feet expects to be tired. That is the job and you get on with it.

What nobody warns you about is the evening. You sit down at seven and your calves start to throb. Your socks have left a ring around your ankles. Your feet are still hot at eleven.

And you do not get the evening you had planned. Not the walk, not the dinner, not even staying awake in your chair.

They said I’d get used to it. I never did.

Everyone Told Me I Would Get Used To It

For a long time I treated this as a toughness problem. Twenty-two years in and my feet still hurt at nine at night. Everyone at work told me the same thing: You get used to it.

Nobody does.

Which is why I needed to find out what was physically happening in my legs across a ten hour shift.

Ten Hours Of Standing Is Ten Hours Of Working Against Gravity

Blood gets to your feet easily. Moving it back up is the hard part, and your calves do most of that work. Every step squeezes the veins and pushes blood upward. Stand mostly still on a hard floor for a shift and that pump barely runs, so fluid settles where gravity puts it.

The Shoes Everyone Recommends Are Not Allowed On My Floor.

Every list I read pointed at footwear. Better shoes, better insoles, a supportive clog, a gel mat if you can get one where you work.

Here is the part those lists leave out. The shoe most people recommend to me is not allowed at my job. The policy is all black, closed toe, nothing that looks like a running shoe.

Good shoes are worth having anyway. But cushioning changes what my foot lands on. It does not change how much blood is moving through my leg on hour nine. Those are two different problems, and only one of them has anything to do with what is on my feet.

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Elevating Your Legs Works. For About Twenty Minutes.

Putting your feet up genuinely helps. The trouble is it only works while you are doing it.

Twenty minutes on the couch buys you twenty minutes, then gravity takes over again. And you cannot elevate anything at two in the afternoon with four hours of your shift still to go.

What Finally Worked For Me

Your body makes something called nitric oxide, and it is what tells your blood vessels to relax and open. Wider vessels move blood more easily, including back up out of your legs.

BloodFlow-7® works on that from the inside, instead of on what you put on your feet.

It uses S7®, a blend of seven plant compounds clinically shown to raise the body’s own nitric oxide by up to 230%. Nitrosigine® keeps a key building block for nitric oxide elevated in the blood for up to six hours per dose. Trans-Resveratrol has been shown to improve arterial dilation by up to 62%.

Just two capsules on your lunch break.

What Women Who Are On Their Feet All Day Are Saying

Denise Mackey

Health & Wellness Contributor

Denise Mackey spent twenty-two years working twelve hour shifts before the problem stopped being the shift and started being the evening. She writes about what worked for her.

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