What a ridiculous day. Thought maybe some of you could laugh at this too. As you know we do get edema with CKD. My PCP had me start wearing compression socks to help with edema in ankles and feet.
I was wearing a pair of my holiday compression socks with candy canes today. I've worn them and washed them and they fit fine before today. This morning I had a hard time getting them on, they were fairly tight. I've had to double my Furosemide this week up to 80 mg.
After I got home from my Dr. appt. to get the results of my arterial leg ultra sound scans, I literally could not get my compression socks off. It was hilarious and frustrating. I am not overweight; I am within normal weight and my BMI is fine so no reason I'd be too fat for holiday socks. I think they were nibbling on the candy canes all day. OMG the socks go up to just below my knees and the skin above the socks, over my knee caps and up my thigh about 4 inches was totally purple. That's a new development. Maybe tight sock syndrome, TSS, not sure, LOL.
After struggling for 15 minutes with each sock trying to roll them down, or pull them by the toes I was so frustrated and was literally going to get a pair of scissors to cut myself out of my socks. I have a feeling my kidneys were really rebelling today. My next blood test may be as bad as before. I'll find out next month.
Anyway, mission accomplished. I have escaped from my compression stockings!!!! What a crazy life it is having CKD. You have to laugh about it. What the point of life otherwise.
So, if you ever get trapped in your compression socks, just remember you are not alone. If all else fails cut them off LOL!!!! Don't worry about anything, just laugh until you get through it! BTW, don't laugh or try too hard or you'll get stomach cramps while doing it!!!
Happy holidays everyone!!!
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Oh Sophie, You are such a dear. You made me smile. My poor hubby wears compression socks and has a time of it with them. One time when pulling them up, he slipped and smacked himself in the face so hard I was afraid he was going to have a bruise. Your sense of humor will get you through this, I hope that the edema subsides, and things will be ok.
I'm trying to picture that. Are you guys sitting or standing when you put them on? Now I'm thinking I'll probably have another adventure in compression socks in my future to look forward to. Maybe we could all collaborate on a book about our crazy compression sock mishaps!!!! I bet it would be hilarious and make the NY Times best seller list in non-fiction LOL
That's what I do too. So just a nose dive off the bed?! OUCH!! So sorry. I am going to have to be careful putting them on as well. I have on pale blue ones with penguins today. They are wintry and my holiday ones are all in the laundry today. I hope the penguins will just fly off this evening LOL
You crack me up 🤣 I love your optimism gives me a good start to my day I use to wear compression socks when I was a GM of McDonald’s I spent 60 plus hours a week on my feet . Seems like a long time ago. Be careful those sound like exercise lol
LOL, I like that! I can tell my Dr. I've started a new exercise program, putting on & taking off compression socks!!! I need to exercise more with all the Christmas cookies I plan to consume : )
I just saw these darling chihuahua compression socks and had to share the link with you. I don't even have a chihuahua and I'm getting them. I love pink, and cute dogs, plus I don't have these in my collection yet!!! I'm wearing my turquoise socks with monkeys on them today. I ordered some hilarious ones from eBay. At first I didn't understand them. They had pics of donkeys which I love and then said "smart" over the donkeys. Well duh, the other name for donkey dawned on me. Now I'll have Smart A$$ compression socks when they arrive from China. I order them 3 months ago; they are due in a week or two. Can't wait!!! LOL, they will make me smile to myself all day long when I wear them.
Your so funny love your posts and happy outlook on things! If you don’t mind what kind of compression socks I’ve been looking for hours and reading reviews lol
I'd better not leave a review LOL, I might discourage buyers. I have worn them several times over the last couple weeks and only was trapped the one time, so for me that's a glowing review!!!
If you order within the next hour you'll get them on Thurs. the 23rd. I think you're in the U.S.
HILARIOUS!!! Oh Sophiebun11...you are TOO FUNNY! What a wonderful way to start the day. I love your sick sense of humor...what does that say about me??!! I love the idea you have candy cane compression socks...wish I'd known sooner...tmrw at PT is Christmas sock & hat day...they've been doing a fun day every Fri. in Dec. Those would have been perfect! I can totally picture you struggling with trying to take them off...I used to have trouble when wearing full-length for many months post-surgery, and sometimes wondered if I'd be trapped in them...lol. But the thought of rolled candy canes facing a sharp pair of red glittery scissors is just too funny. Unfortunately, the reason for the hilarity isn't at all funny...I'm sorry your edema is so bad. 80mg furosemide is really a lot. I only take 10mg. I'm glad you can still have such a great sense of humor in spite of all of your health issues. TSS...I think that should be added to the CPT coding protocol...it's a real thing! Have a Terrific day, and a wonderful holiday period. Blessings for Christmas and beyond.
You're too funny! A CPT Code for TSS!! The red glittery scissors were a nice touch, you have a vivid imagination, I like that and your sense of humor.
I have compression socks with the candy canes, with santas, and with reindeer for the holidays. No black, white, or beige for me. For year round I have cats, dogs, llamas, foxes, lambs, raccoons, chickens, giraffe, zebra, bunnies, and various abstract shapes. If you have to wear them they might as well be cute. I even had Halloween ones. If you go on Amazon and put in compression socks animal prints or holiday they have so many options and they come in 5 or 6 assorted packs for around $20.00. They come in different levels of compression too. They do have the plain as well of course.
My PCP told me to try them for my edema. He said that he wears them every day to work just because he is on his feet all day running around and they feel good, he doesn't need them for any health issue. He had on black ones with white lightning bolts the day he showed me his. So, I got him a pair of red ones with brown reindeer on them as a gag Christmas gift. I took them to him at my appt. yesterday. I know his patients will get a kick out of them. He doesn't wear ties or I'd have given him a reindeer tie!!!
That's very cool. I see you took the artsy road with your foot wear. I believe I saw those on Amazon. I may need to expand my collection and include those as well. It's so nice having options beyond those horrid beige, black, or white ones from years ago. At least we can be stylish now. Just like wide shoes to fit swollen feet are also available in cute styles like regular shoes and not orthopedic looking "clodhoppers" as my dad used to call them.
How fun! You're right...make lemonade, right? Ya, I kind of have an odd sense of humor and my mind wanders into fun oblivion now and then, but I enjoy life and it all just seems to go easier if you stay happy in spite of things. I have good friends who also share a healthy sense of humor, so I'm lucky. Guess that's why I don't feel like I'm old, even though I am...in my mind I'm still a kid, but with the added benefit of life experience. It never hurts to be silly and laugh...life could be very hard, sad, awful otherwise. I appreciate "knowing" you. Enjoy the holidays too, and I wish you a blessed Christmas.
I totally agree with you. Life would be so boring if you can't laugh and enjoy life regardless of your circumstances.
You have a wonderful attitude that will keep you young!! It is nice to know you as well. I do feel like I know many of the people here. Forum friends, so to speak.
It sounds like I'm not alone. I didn't think I would be. I'm glad I still have my bandage scissors from my paramedic kit so I won't jab my legs in case I do have to cut them off one day.
I actually saw ones on EBay that zipped up. I suppose they would make for easier removal, but I was afraid I'd catch my lower leg skin in the zipper and end up a bloody mess and have a whole other mishap to report LOL!!! Besides they only came in beige, that's no fun!
I have a pair with zippers and they're easy to get on and off. Fortunately, I only had edema once and the compression stockings helped. I just know I would have had TSS if I didnt have ones with zippers because I have muscular legs and struggle sometines even with the zipper ones.
It's a blessing to have a sense of humor. I, too, laugh easily and often and feel good when I do. ive always rather see the hunor in things than complain about it. And, I think physiologically laughing does good things to our bodies. It just another form of "best medicine."
To you Sophie and to everyone out there on this forum I wish you a very happy.holuday season together with a safe and healthy new year.🎄🎁🎄
Happy holidays to you. Love your attitude. I haven't heard from anyone with the zippered socks, I was a bit leery and imagined many humorous situations arising with getting them off and on. I was afraid it might be like one of those painful Brazilian waxes I've heard about LOL
Does your sock on your mantle for Santa to fill have a zipper? Maybe run the zipper down a bit to fit in more goodies LOL
Sophie, thanks for the laugh... needed that. I've been wearing them most days too. I have trouble getting them on and off but not to that extent. I sit on the bed to put them off, wherever I am to take them off.
It was very funny even to me. I've never had that problem myself. Today went very smoothly.
I had my last fiasco when I bought my shower chair for my faintness in the shower. No one warned me that the chair seat would be icy cold and I froze my bottom, jumped up and smacked my knee on the faucet, leaned over to rub my knee and smacked my head into the wall. I seem to be turning into a Calamity Jane of sorts.
OH MY!!! Sophiebun11, you are a fantastic woman! I'm sorry to be laughing pretty hard right now, but I can see it happening in my mind's eye. Btw...I learned to keep a plastic cup in the shower to warm my shower chair before sitting down...too many cold butts before it dawned on me...lol. I just happened to think...maybe I should put the chair under the shower while the water's warming up? Then by the time the water was hot enough to shower, the chair would be warmed up too? But admittedly, I'm too lazy to move it twice, and can't imagine what horrors I might experience crashing through the sliding glass door, or whatever horror may await. Think I'll stick to using my plastic cup and warming my chair that way. My oh my, life can be interesting, huh? Have a good evening. Signing off.
Please stick with the plastic cup. Moving the chair could create many hazards as well. Crashing through the glass shower door would be too dangerous to be funny!!! I have a hand-held shower thingy so now that I know I'll freeze my bottom, I just hold the hose and spray the chair before sitting down. I don't have to move the chair. I guess I'm lucky I have a shower curtain here, I didn't like it at first not having the glass doors I was used to. But thinking about it after what you brought up, I'm safer with a nylon shower curtain LOL!!Goodnight, have a safe shower tomorrow!
You and I think alike! The handheld shower nozzle will be great to heat up your chair...more high-tech than my plastic cup! My shower door is a step-in, so nice not to have to climb over a tub ledge. Somehow I don't think a shower curtain is compatible! I imagine you have an interesting one though, given your penchant for fun compression socks! Sleep well.
Lol!!!! Gee, I’m sorry to be laughing but, sounds like you have my kind of luck!! Its like living inside of a Carol Burnett skit sometimes, isn’t it?! 😂😂😂😂 Thank you so much for the laughs Sophiebun! It is important to be able to chuckle at life every now and again. I needed that. Wishing you, and all in this forum, a very Blessed, “Safe” and Happy Holiday Season!! God bless. 🎄🎅🏻🦌☃️❄️🎁😊👍🙏
I am happy to give you and everyone a laugh!!! I am always the first to laugh at myself. Instead of saying "one day you'll laugh about this situation", my first reaction is to bust out laughing immediately. If it will be funny later, it's funny now.
I love your Carol Burnett skit reference, that made me laugh, and it's very true. Thanks for the holiday wishes and likewise to you. I love the cute little emojis : )
My shower chair was very slippery and created more problems than not having one! When I first used it, I nearly slipped out of it especially when soapy suds got on it. Had to buy special tape to make it non-slippery. Thank goodness. I have fairly good balance, but I worried about the poor souls who dont. Certainly not a good feature for needy people. Sorry. I had to laugh at your knee banging, head banging, but it was funny. Thank goodness you didnt fall or slip out of it like I almost did. Stay safe and keep laughing as it's good for all of us.
I actually had no problems with the zippeted socks and found them very easy to use. They're hanging by the fireplace now waiting for Santa.
Wow, that really is a lot of Furosemide. I took 100mg for a while years ago for CHF. 2 months ago I was stage 4 at 28%, but started Pred. and went up to stage 3. I don't know if maybe the Prednisone is causing more edema, but it's helping my kidneys since my CKD is from an autoimmune disease. My Dr. keeps wanting to lower my furosemide since it's toxic to the kidneys, but what can you do? Edema everywhere and fluid in the lungs is bad for you too. I'm sorry you have to take so much, I imagine you must know where every bathroom is in every shopping mall and each one wherever you drive : ) I hope you enjoy your holidays! Best wishes!
When I was in hospital in May with urosepsis and subsequent stage 3 AKI, for one week when I was in a really bad way, I had Hypoactive Delirium meaning I was totally convinced there was a conspiracy against me. I was convinced all the hospital staff were some sort of hostile aliens keeping me against my will. One of their 'torture methods' (in my mind) was trying to put compression socks on me which seemed like agony, probably because I was struggling so much and I think I had edema at the time. Funny to think back now about it 😀... But at the time, terrifying,
Wow theres really a name for that. I was on verge of septic with bowel blockage out of my head for days . Lived and died for three different people always weird stuff to this day I don’t like the little knomes. My daughter said I was awake but wouldn’t talk . When I finally did I was absolutely positive that they were killing me lolThey called my daughter I told her she wasn’t going to have a mother much longer that they were trying to kill me and I was trussed up like a Turkey what I think it was my legs and feet were so tangled I felt tied up . I dk is that caused from infection or some drug you think? Anyway Happy Holidays 🌲
Yes that sounds exactly the same as what I had. I still have flashbacks of some of the weird dreamlike things I went through. I believe Delirium is caused mainly by serious infection or a serious medical condition, in my case was the sepsis , uti and kidney failure.
I had septicemia in 2009 on ventilator multi organ failed slim chance of making it told family say bye . Do you think after that bout of septicemia then and 2017 again could have caused kidney decline or is it probably lupus and several autoimmune diseases high bp heart stent ? I don’t know if there’s a way anybody could pin point one as nasty culprit it’s it amazing I felt so alone and not one person could understand what I went through in my mind.) Thank you for helping 🎄
Oh no!!! How bizarre and scary to have gone through that. I'm glad you can laugh about it now. I think I had a conspiracy against me by my candy cane compression socks. Happy Holidays Danoco!
Sophie, so glad you are able to laugh at yourself and share with others. One of my best activities is laughing at myself. Glad you didn’t have to ruin the socks. Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the laugh picturing you trying to get the socks off!I have had a transplant and especially when I travel by car or by air, I have problems with edema so have to wear compression socks. I know what you mean - they are hard enough to put on and with some swelling can be a "bear" to get off! We had arrived in Jamaica a couple years ago and the socks were so tight, I was tempted to use a scissors and CUT them off. Gets frustrating! Wish I had Christmas socks! Ha, ha
Your sense of humor and positive attitude will get you through all of this.
Wishing you only the best this Christmas and New Year!
I bet you had a bear of a problem getting yours off after a long flight! If you order some Christmas compression socks on Amazon you'll still get them in time. There's still time for Valentine and Easter socks, so plan ahead. I'm going to need an entire dresser drawer just for my ever-growing compression sock collection : ) Have a wonderful holiday season. Keep laughing.
Oh Sopie!! I laughed so hard at this!!! And also the cold shower seat. I was trying not to laugh out loud and wake my hubby from his nap, so I sounded like the cartoon dog Muttley, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash. Thanks, everyone, for the good belly laugh. I needed it today. I just got a new set of compression stockings, with florescent toes and heels, and splashes of color up the back. But next time I'm going for the pet ones, and maybe holiday ones for next year. I have had moments when they are hard to get off, but don't have a lot of edema yet at my stage. You can bet I will never forget imagining you trying to get out of your socks. TSS...definitely needs to be a coded condition. "I'm sorry, I can't answer my phone right now. I am suffering from a serious case of TSS".
Merry Christmas to everyone on the forum. I'm so glad you are hear to share the good times and the bad.
I laughed at your reference to Muttley and Snidely Whiplash. I often think that is what my kitty is doing in his head as he watches some of my predicaments.Wow, florescent toes and heels with colors up the back sound pretty festive for the holidays. I hope your new year finds you with a very large collection of animal and other print compression socks. If we have to wear them, they might as well make us happy when we look at them.
Next time I want to eat some potato chips I'll have to tell myself not to do it or I'll get TSS!!!
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I use to wear compression socks when I was a GM of McDonald’s I spent 60 plus hours a week on my feet . Seems like a long time ago. Be careful those sound like exercise lol
Wonder if they make any with Chihuahua on them . 
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