Dr. Hamer - Physiotherapist at California Hospital

Sleeping in a lying position makes your venous valves work more efficiently than when sitting or standing. In the upright position, gravity acts against the return of circulation from the feet back to the heart, combined with a negative effect due to damaged valves. That's why your ankles and calves usually feel fine in the morning, and swollen and heavy during the day.

Wearing pressure socks in the morning will keep the valves in place to support healthy blood circulation in your legs throughout the day.

If you already have varicose veins, compression stockings can help ease symptoms such as:

Swollen ankles
Leg pain or feeling of heaviness
Tired and in pain
Leg cramps at night

Medical use is used to treat and prevent varicose veins. This disease manifests in many different forms depending on the severity or mildness. Some symptoms such as leg pain, ankle swelling in the afternoon, heavy legs in the afternoon, cramps at night make you wake up startled. More serious conditions that you may experience are varicose veins under the skin, more severe leg edema, easy bruising on the legs when lightly touched, spider veins (small blood vessels that are red and blue, and disappear when pressed). or earlier in the day,... In the most severe form, varicose veins zigzag and roll into lumps under the skin, darkening of the skin from the feet up, skin eczema or non-concave leg edema (hard edema), .. Therefore, use medical stockings against varicose veins so as not to aggravate the disease.