can anyone sort of let me know how you put them on? i have tried the hand in the heel method and it just hurts so much and puts so much pressure trying to bunch them up my feet and legs. and I have nerve pain in my feet, im unsure if its because of my blood pooling causing nerve damage or something else but it makes my nerves BURN even trying to put on the loosest pair. what am i doing wrong? any help appreciated ❤️
hey guys. I don’t know if any of you have ever experienced anything like this, but I am pretty much out of options so I wanted to see if anyone has ever been through what I am going through.
At the end of March this year, one day I stood up and immediately noticed my feet and legs were tingling and cramping. I looked, and the longer I stood, maybe around just a minute, my feet and legs had started to turn purple.
I quickly went in and had normal doppler ultrasounds, and I got in pretty quick to see a vascular surgeon because I had a DVT last year. he did a venous reflux test in reverse trendelenburg (even though I heard standing was more accurate) and had said it was normal and nothing was wrong with my veins aside from minimal reflux in a superficial vein.
l feel strongly despite this that my symptoms feel like extreme blood pooling due to the obvious (purple and cramping aching tingling etc only when i’m sitting/standing), but because my reflux test was essentially normal, nobody is willing to look further into what is going on.
I feel like I am going crazy sometimes because all of this just started one night and now I can’t seem to do anything besides sit on the couch with my legs up without everything feeling awful, even something like standing still long enough to take a shower or a short car ride is crazy painful and difficult. I feel like all of this has come on very sudden suddenly, and I know that Venous insufficiency usually takes many more at least months to a year to develop, or so my surgeon had told me, so I am not 100% sure that that is what’s going on with me since mine happened overnight, but I was wondering if anyone here might have had similar onset or if I’m simply barking up the wrong tree thinking this could be blood pooling.
This whole thing has taken such a whole toll on my life, and I feel completely disabled by what has happened to me. It feels like my veins just crapped out on me one night. Sorry this has been so long and I’m very grateful to anyone who has stuck around to finish it.
Still trying to figure out what’s going on with me. They can’t find a neurological or spinal cause and I have to wait til the end of next month to see my podiatrist about this freaking non stop burning in my feet and legs. I’m not as concerned with trying to figure out the why anymore mostly just the how, as in how do I sleep? Please, guys. If you have any tips or things to share that you do to help calm the nerve pain at bed time I would really appreciate it. I haven’t had a full night of sleep in weeks and it feels like I’m going to be sick from lack of sleep. I’ve had most luck getting a couple hours with strangely, a fan blowing on my feet. But even that just got me a few hours. How do we sleep with neuropathy??
starting last month i have had some horrible circulatory issue symptoms resulting in barely being able to be upright (sitting or standing) and i basically have to sit all day with my legs elevated if i don’t wear my compression socks. my vascular surgeon is convinced nothing is wrong because i had a regular ultrasound and a venous reflux one, but I was tilted on the table a bit and not standing. My symptoms weren’t even occurring when they did the test. My feet and legs basically tingle and turn purple and cramp, get really heavy, all that fun stuff haha, if I’m not laying down or like I said putting my legs up.
I asked my surgeon and he said the test would’ve seen reflux or venous insufficiency anyways, even though research and the standard is to do it standing unless absolutely not possible so i’m confused why they haven’t done that for me. i’m just really distressed and as of now, no one knows what’s going on with me and no one wants to run any more tests. i just feel helpless. has anyone else had their reflux test and not been standing up? Am i sort of barking up the wrong tree wanting them to just do it the best way possible?