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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
The congestive heart failure has likely caused the edema, not the other way around. The pulmonary edema can also be caused by congestive heart failure compounded by sleep apnea - all of your medical probrems are associated with each other.
Compression stockings, when worn throughout the day, can really keep the leg/ankle/foot edema away.
I'm gald to hear that you (unlike someone else on here  ) have been following up with your docs - that is the best course of action. |
Well Said.
Get better Teddy. And get you some of them thar stockings. The purty ones with the line running up the back of em
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