After reading here and the Elaine Moore site linked here, I have been analyzing my health for the last 10 years.  Around 2010, I blogged about being too tired to get out of bed in the morning, and I stayed tired all day.  I also remember the heat getting to me more than it had before, but that could have been menopause.  I think I attributed hair thinning to menopause too.   My arms and legs felt so tired and heavy, like metabolic muscle fatigue.  And that's when my shins became red, hard, and shiny.  And itchy!  It was on a few of my toes too.  I went to a dermatologist, but the cream prescribed didn't do any good.  At some point, I remember pressure behind my eyes when I bent over, but I don't think that was in 2010.

Interestingly, in spring of 2016, I cracked my tibia, and after that, the redness on that shin started going away.  Eventually, the other leg and my toes cleared too.  From everything I've read, the red shins were pretibial myxedema.  I had a couple of retina tears in 2016, but other than that, I felt better in 2016 and 2017 than I had in years.  When I started having high heart rate and tremors in 2018, I noticed my arms and legs felt heavy again, and I was just so tired I could barely function.  But my shins remained clear, and are still clear today.

I read on the Elaine Moore blog that a study showed that a lot of people got TED after suffering a sprained ankle, and I wonder if there is a connection to my cracked tibia, though I didn't notice any symptoms until summer 2018.