Question to folks using compression socks...

[31j20b3]

8. Thanks... I don't know if my problem is severe. I started wearing them after an event

while rototilling in my garden, which is big by suburban standards because I donate veggies as part of Veggies for Vets

I had no pain after I quit working that day, but I took off my shoes and socks (because I change because of sweaty feet), and my right foot was purple! Calls to the V.A. didn't get help, and I lay down and elevated my foot about 18 inches using a cardboard box. The purple went away in minutes. That resulted in a half dozen or so visits to different clinics in the Milw V.A. hospital.

I've worn the socks everyday since, and I don't get purple foot anymore. However, when I don't wear them, I get swelling in a vein that crosses the top of my right foot (swollen vein tracks left to right). Consequently, I've never questioned if the socks helped me, but in the past few months I"ve had a lot of discomfort with cold feet, even when temps are in the 70's and 80s.

I can't argue with the potential value of presenting it to my doc. But then my doc is new, and new to me also. So in some respects I'm starting over because she want to make sure she does "everything' and doesn;t rely on previous doc.

MY doc of 10 years got kicked out of the Milw clinics to a rural clinic. Not because he was a bad doc. He was an internal med specialist and, he is also a prof at the Wisconsin College of Medicine, but I think more because he is filapino and sadly the place does have patients with race issues. Thank-you Trump administration.