Life in Compression
I would like to specifically address the "fashionable" problem of male compression wearers, from a very personal point of view. When I began to take care of my post-thrombotic legs and an optimal compression fitting a few months ago, I had also made the plan to change something in the future: I wanted to wear flat knitwear with shorts in the summer. Short
As a young man I already had deep vein thromboses on both sides and have therefore been wearing compression stockings for over two decades. Since then, there has not been a single day on which I left the house without them. Back then, in the first years after the thrombosis, I usually wore long (AG or AT), but then only calf stockings
A warm “Wai” from Thailand and thank you for letting me write here! Briefly to me: Jürgen (54) from Hessen, happily married, two grown girls, works for the regional council of Giessen, Department VII Refugee Affairs. Primary lymphedema of both legs. The latter is a bit bumpy in the vita, because who admits in their seemingly perfect vita that it is chronic