Have tried Farrow wrap, but they still need strength to pull across and fasten. It is just so annoying - but the NHS is 'forgetting' polio, and my GP asked me other day why I hadn't had vaccination. When I said Salk announced it month after I caught it, he didn't even apologise! Now NHS Choices has removed all mention of Polio off its website; only mentions PPS - which isn't what I have.
Still, it's lovely getting all this support from everyone - so MANY thanks.
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Jump to repliesI think that a machine might be the only solution. I wonder if in your case you wouldn't be able to ask the NHS for some financial help in acquiring such a machine. No compression sleeve will ever be easy to put on as by its nature it's made so as to be tight on the affected limb.
Hi
My mother has fixed a hair grip to the zip pull
which makes it a bit easier for weaker hands.
Hope this helps
I am such a wimp - but can't even pull up a hairgrip. But thanks for all the help - and in return I write for after-cncer.info, and have been posting stories about Election after-cancer.info/2015/03/2... which I hope makes you smile. -
Hi
One other possibility - apart from
the Lymphapants which are life
changing ( for us) if u can get them,
try a lower comoression. Having had
LD all my life I realised that there is a conflict in the advice. Don't restrict the circulation on the one hand use
compression on the other. ( that
doesn't match does it) so I tried
on myself and my mother lowering
From a class 2 to a class one.
My mother who is 97 can get the
zip up more easily and I have
less congestion at the knee where the sock used to cut in.
I think people are not always balancing the two needs, so compression may be too much for
some.
Best wishes
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