What is the light green watery fluid that comes out of your legs when you have cellulitus?
In your case it might be tissue fluid and lymph fluid. Your cellulitis, common with peripheral vasculature insufficiency and/or disease which in turn is a result of diabetes, may have spread to your lymphatic vessels and resulted in swelling & tenderness (lymhadenitis) and possibly inflammation (lymphangitis). I suspect your diabetes is poorly controlled and that you are very sedentary. Catie, you need to see your doctor right away. Obesity can lead to both type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Diabetes can lead to hypertension, peripheral vasculature disease and peripheral neuropathy, retinopathy & blindness, dental problems, heart/renal/liver disease, increased risk for infection, and the list goes on. Peripheral vasculature disease can result in infections in the extremities, particularly the legs and feet. Because your blood goes everywhere, anything disease that affects your blood (as diabetes does) will end up affecting every organ in the body. And then these disorders lead to other
