Lori....My feet swelled way to big to get tennis shoes are any kind other than
House shoe like slippers on....This lasted over a year, then all of a sudden
about 6 months ago they went back to normal and I have went back to Tennis
shoes every since, We don't know for sure if something just changed in my body
or if god simply healed me of it, because we do pray a lot...Either way it is
so nice to see normal size feet again, hope it continues and hope you get
better also ! Dan H***
On Sunday, April 17, 2016 1:08 PM, Lori Michaelson <[email protected]>
wrote:
I was wondering if any of you have had to deal with lower extremity edema
whereby you can't even wear tennis shoes/sneakers or anything but sandals that
stay open and there is only a Velcro strap that allows the top of the sandals
to close or buckled straps to allow for the stretching/lower extremity edema in
my feet?
This began with me probably 3-4 years after I began to work and was in the
chair by 8 AM and did not lay down until 8 PM or 9 PM on weekdays.
But it has gotten much worse since then and then in 1998 I had to stop wearing
shoes or tennis shoes/sneakers and resort to what I spoke about above.
The only thing that helps it is me laying flat with my feet straight up and
down against a pillow whereby my lower extremities are equal to my heart. In
other words, they go down overnight but not always.
Yes, I will wear compression stockings and did so before moving to Arizona in
the summer of 2001. I wore Jobst stockings for the first couple of years after
moving away from the humidity of the Northeast but I eventually did not need
them. When I moved back to the Northeast to be with family after losing my
husband my lower extremities became worse so I thought when I moved back here
they would get better but nope!
Yes, I tilt back my chair several times a day because that is all I have time
for and I am not up in my chair all that long anyway.
Now, I do not have any heart problems or anything. It is all because of gravity.
I very much wish I could go back to wearing sneakers but even with my
compression stockings... my feet and ankles swell and I can't risk any skin
breakdown.
Best,
~LoriC4/5 complete quad, 36 1/2 years postTucson Arizona
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