Is it Thursday already? I feel like I lost a couple of days...

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Originally Posted by Wathen1955

I also have to wear support socks. Here are what my legs look like below. The red area is very sensitive to touch. It hurts like a MF if hit hard. I also have to keep my legs elevated when sitting down. I did go in once to have a faulty valve fix so the redness would go away, but it never did so I never went back for another shot. At this point in time, I'll be 65 in May and I don't want to do any more about it - I'll just live with it.



It's hard finding a decent set of support socks. Been trying different companies, but the quality sucks. Most don't last more that 6 months.

Damn! I’ve been wearing Jobst compression stockings. For elevation, I have a Human Touch Perfect Chair, the PC-Live version. This chair gets to a zero gravity position. Worth every penny. I also have a Lay-Z-Boy chair that gets close to zero gravity.

Thinking about getting an Altwork workstation as well. Pricey, but it will help me keep my feet elevated, which is required.

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by Wathen1955

I found their site, but the sock you mentioned seems to be of lower quality now. All the reviews are similar to this one for that type of sock:



That is one of the problems with these socks lately for the ones I've been buying. They don't stay up around the knee, BUT I did order a pair to try them out. The majority of the reviews were a few years back so maybe they changed.

Figures the quality would slip... Hopefully not though.
I have problems with shoes(find a good pair then quality goes to shit) myself and tendons around the knees so I wear gray work gear socks from Walmart. They don't compress alot but keeps the tendon below knee happy.

I don't dry the sports socks in the dryer ever, just air dry then.

Take care of those legs man.

[Wathen1955]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Take care of those legs man.

They have been like this since 1997 when I had the blood clot in my left leg.
My grandfather had this and so did my dad. My dad use to wrap his legs when I was a kid. Never knew why. Now I know.

They told me surgery would be the only way to correct the legs on how they look, but I don't want to spend the money. If I had them look like that in my teens or 20's, then hell yes I would have it fixed. I'm still able to walk several miles with no issues.

[VITE1]

Damn. That's scary. You were smarter than some I've known to go to the hospital. Two died in my family for waiting too long.