My Left Leg - A Walk with Lymphedema

As you may have read in my previous blogs, I have been having somewhat of a difficult time. I need to preface this by saying, I am still standing. Yes I am wrapping my legs more frequently but, it is what it is! I am still learning about this condition as well as learning how I deal with certain aspects of it. I analyze a lot, and that includes my walk with lymphedma. I have recently realized that, when my legs are wrapped, I am in less pain. I have no idea why. Is it the pressure of the wrappings against my legs? Is it the fact that the wrappings relieve the swelling therefore relieving the pain? I don't know. Now this is the strange thing, even with the relief, I still would rather not have the wrappings on. When I sleep with five layers of bandaging on my legs it is difficult to move 1) because the material of the wraps and the sheets just don't work together too well 2) My legs become extremely heavy so when I turn over I feel like I am trying to pull a small cinder block with me!!! Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it and the answer is ABSOLUTELY. While I am going through it, I swear (to myself that is) I am not going through this the rest of my life but in 24 hours when I remove the bandaging, I realize yet again that sometime we have to be uncomfortable...but such is life! My life that is.