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| Thread ID: 146016 | 2018-04-01 21:52:00 | Swollen legs | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 1447955 | 2018-04-02 07:50:00 | Thanks tons folks! The doc appointment, as mentioned, ain't gonna happen in a hurry, but a likely week down the track is acceptable to me. A & E ain't gonna happen; I don't feel that desperate. Elevating legs is an obvious good idea thanks. And I just thought - I was given an electric neck massager as a surprise gift from a weekend visitor. Its a budget device, but the one time I sampled it it works really well, as if someone's fingers and thumbs are digging nicely into the muscle tissue. She explained how it has a fair bit of versatility, such as being used on individual body parts, eg one part of a shoulder or even lower back. So I might place it over parts of my leg and/or feet as a test and see if that improves the look and feel down there. Thanks again people :) |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1447956 | 2018-04-02 07:55:00 | ps, are you ready for another letter & pictures, what do you want to know about, what was your job? pjI'll get back to you re that via email. Just want to try keep private stuff seperate from forum stuff. Cheers PJ, will get back to you soonish. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1447957 | 2018-04-02 08:26:00 | And while you have your feet elevated, move your feet up & down vigourously (working your calf muscles) as hard as you can. That helps the circulation and helps move the oedema up the legs and away from the feet. | R.M. (561) | ||
| 1447958 | 2018-04-02 20:31:00 | Try it Greg, if it helps, then great. What works, you do....... Can be trial and error, some things have a surprising effect. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1447959 | 2018-04-02 23:50:00 | Greg, in my case the oedema in my ankles/feet comes as a nasty side effect of a medication I am on to lower blood pressure. The doc has put me on a diuretic to get rid of the fluid build up but it has had a limited effect. The oedema gets worse if I am driving the campervan for any length of time, and it got really bad on my recent flight to and from Perth. A reclining lazyboy chair is more effective in my case than the diuretic, so I agree with the others saying put your feet up, and move them around. | John H (8) | ||
| 1447960 | 2018-04-06 00:44:00 | After my last knee replacement surgery - and since I am on coumadin to combat strokes and TIAs from my atrial fibrillation problem, my bed had to have the foot section raised . It really worked well since we spend at least 33% of our day in bed . The swelling went down a whole bunch every night and slowly I made headway with it and my legs haven't swollen up again, and I can now sleep normally (flat) . The raised feet prescription is from my surgeon is called Reverse Trendelenburg ( . azcentral . com/what-is-reverse-trendelenburg-12353376 . html" target="_blank">healthyliving . azcentral . com) I believe . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447961 | 2018-04-07 02:57:00 | Nope, surely it is the Trendelenburg Position you are meaning Joe as the reverse position is this: www.google.com The reverse Trendelenburg position similarly has the body flat, but the head is 15-30 degrees higher than the feet. In the Trendelenburg position, the body is laid supine, or flat on the back with the feet higher than the head by 15-30 degrees. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1447962 | 2018-04-07 03:08:00 | As for TIA's, Mum was getting those, the place where she was, the Hospice was very hot and dry so she was drinking a lot of water and having to go to the loo a lot at night. The Doc said to cut down on water so we did that without thinking about repercussions and not putting two and two together till later her frequency of TIA's increased, wasn't long before she had a major stroke, lingered on unconscious for 10 days then died. She was on Warfarin, then later something else the name of which I cannot recall. As she got worse from repeated TIA's, the staff started to supervise her medications as she was deemed too befuddled to do it herself anymore. I felt that the staff were lackadaisical in their approach both in timing and amounts, which are critical and this was probably a contributing factor, it's impossible to say. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1447963 | 2018-04-07 03:10:00 | Nope, surely it is the Trendelenburg Position you are meaning Joe as the reverse position is this: www.google.com The reverse Trendelenburg position similarly has the body flat, but the head is 15-30 degrees higher than the feet. In the Trendelenburg position, the body is laid supine, or flat on the back with the feet higher than the head by 15-30 degrees. Well - I spelled it correctly at least. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447964 | 2018-04-07 04:10:00 | As for TIA's, Mum was getting those, the place where she was, the Hospice was very hot and dry so she was drinking a lot of water and having to go to the loo a lot at night. The Doc said to cut down on water so we did that without thinking about repercussions Typical example of ****. Instead of making the room cooler, some stupid advice. And feed medications....Warfarin can cause TIAs you know. You get 2 kinds of stroke, those caused by blockages and thus a lack of blood getting through or those caused by bleeding. Warfarin not only causes bleeding, but it can also aggravate clotting - there you go, a side effect from the thing that is meant to prevent that exact thing. Likewise many blood pressure pills can increase pressure.... Actually you can also get the results of strokes from other than a stroke. For instance husband and his hypos....he has 3 times now damaged himself from hypos, where you would think stroke. |
piroska (17583) | ||
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