Now that we’ve discussed what things will make you gain weight, how about we also let some of the skinny out of those jeans, eh?
Dr. Karen Boyle of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center noticed patients coming in complaining of tingling, numbness and pain in their upper legs. The culprit? Skinny jeans. Yes, those really fabulous, but excruciatingly tight jeans you’ve been wearing. You know the ones that show off your butt, but are also just extra fantastic when you pair them with flats or super, duper high heels? Yeah, you’re cutting off circulation to your lower extremities, you crazy person.
“This disorder is called Miralsha Parasthetica and it’s a disorder that occurs when one of the nerves that runs in the outer part of a thigh gets compressed,” Boyle told ABC. “The pressure on it causes symptoms of tingling, numbness and pain in the outer part of the thigh.”
Boyle says that if you ignore the pain and continue to wear the skinniest of jeans, you could end up with permanent nerve damage. Er, uh, wow! That’s something you never thought of when you thought this was a good idea!
The New York Daily News spoke to Dr. Robert Rhee, chief of vascular surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn who said, “Switch to a larger size. The numbness is a sign your body is not getting enough blood.”
We’re not sure what the hipsters will do, this is kind of their bailiwick, yes? Acid wash and skinny jeans. It’s like 1987 all over again, yes? Yes. Weirdly, a Canadian doctor who also studied the nerve disorder found that for women who experienced burning and tingling after wearing “hiphuggers,” the symptoms resolved after 4 to 6 weeks of wearing loose-fitting dresses.
So the answer to wearing tight jeans and damaging your nerves — dresses. The 1950’s, saving women from vascular disease and they didn’t even know it. No.
Seriously, though, don’t wear pants that make your legs numb. That is all.
