• Bed rest, keep legs elevated
• Elastic wraps or support stockings may be helpful if patients want to be up and around.

Patient Monitoring
Monthly follow-up or as dictated by underlying disorder

No restrictions

• Lesions will resolve over a few months.
• No scarring is anticipated.
• Joint aches and pains may persist.
• <20% recur

• Individual lesions resolve over 3–6 weeks.
• Total time course of 6–12 weeks, but may vary with etiologic disease, if present
• Joint aches and pains may persist for years.
• Lesions do not scar.
• ≥1 recurrences in 12–14% of cases:
  • Occur over variable periods, averaging several years
• Seen most often with sarcoid, streptococcal infection, pregnancy, and oral contraceptives

• Vary according to underlying disease
• None expected from lesions of erythema nodosum