Hi I am at present on holiday in Tenerife and suffering keeping my stockings up, the glue melts but that's what I want info on. I met a lady here and she is suffering, her ankles and feet are really swollen, hardly able to put shoes on and when she does her feet look really constructed. I asked if she had lymphoedema and she said what's that?
Her GP has prescribed water tablets and she has gone to the chemist and bought support stockings.
Does anybody in the Wolverhampton know if there is a lymphoedema department or clinics in the main hospital there?
Do hope our community can help
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I too have had water tablets given for years. Lots of GP's and hospitals don't know how to treat us.
The nurses at Compton are wonderful, went there for years for pump and multi layer bandaging. The staff are not based at Compton Hospice but a unit about a mile away. Needs to go back to her doctor and insist on a diagnosis and referal
Hi a lot of GPS no nothing of ld try dampening the top of your stocking
You should have been measured for correct stocking garment have you
Don't wait 5 months for appointment try west brom clinic tell your gp to fast track you don't delay
If your G P is not as well informed about Lymphoedema as you'd hope please encourage him/ her to undergo L S N's accredited training module. It is free of charge & counts towards a years training hours that need to be undertaken.
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