Diabetic Compression Socks

My grandfather (63) just had a double bypass surgery and is now at home. It is full blown type II diabetes and is overweight. The hospital had socks compression anti-embolism during his hospital stay the whole course of cardiac surgery. Whe we got home and took the socks, the legs were purple and blue and there were marks on her legs around his ankles and shins, where the socks were. Is this normal?? I'm worried because it looked like the circulation was cut off from his legs and the movement is so important with diabetes and their feet. The compression socks are size XL, but by the looks of indentation you would have thought he was wearing size x-small. We have to wait until Tuesday to call the doc because of the long weekend. Does anyone have experience with this? Please help. Thank you!

Overweight patients with diabetes and commonly lymphedema. It is a disease that lymph fluid from your lymph nodes settle to the lowest point of gravity of your body (feet and legs) The lower the pressure to stop the accumulation of fluid and prevent diabetic foot ulcers occur .. VERY IMPORTANT! If the feet and ankles are left alone, traffic will be reduced dramatically and the skin, toes turn black and may result in a need to amputate toes, feet and legs.
The bottom will fit snugly at first if a large amount of accumulated liquid. Your father should be able to remove his socks when he goes to bed and her legs are high, and bring them from the moment he gets up until bedtime.
If the bottom, it now has Large and Xtra are still tight, her doctor may prescribe a set of custom made socks in her size. Since grants lymphadema, it may be a sock increasingly small. PLEASE .. Make sure you check her feet and legs for any blemishes, redness and small cuts per day! Diabetic foot ulcers that can lead to weeks of specialized treatment and are very slow to heal. If I can not answer your questions about this please do not hesitate to write.Good Luck.

Sounds like they were a little too tight for me ... Make no mistake, they are supposed to be watertight in order to make jobs, but have caused bruises and cuts, then he obviously needs a larger size ... Did they measure the legs before putting them on?? measure the calf and thigh and lower leg length is a way to avoid catching a size that is too small ... If there is no improvement, I would call the doctor who performed the surgery or that the call to him ... Usually, you can call your local hospital and they beep the doctor so he can remember ... luck ...

he must go to the emergency! I had something similar happen, but I just got blisters from them being too tight. So it must be seen by a doctor.