Mom is 83 and back to walking with a walker after being bedridden for 1.5 years due to a now-healed stage 4 pressure wound. She is sore all over for known and unknown reasons and is on major pain meds. She has pre-existing back issues and a repaired hip fracture. The problem is that her ankles are sore and swollen and it is discouraging as well as stalling her progress. She has compression socks and takes a daily diuretic. My 83 year old mother was bedridden for almost 1.5 years and started walking again about a year ago today. It was slow going and painful and her PT team was confoundingly bad. They told us that she would probably never walk again, but here she is. She has spinal stenosis, a repaired hip fracture, and potentially arthritis. She walks very slowly with a walker.
Mom is incredibly motivated, is on a number of pain meds (and regular epidural steroid injections) and has a decent doctor. She is now almost fully mobile but swollen and painful ankles are interfering with further progress. Her legs hurt too but only the ankles are swollen.
Doc prescribed a daily diuretic and elevated feet. She wears light compression socks. Some days are better than others.
We keep bringing this up to nurses, caregivers, doctors and are not getting any concrete or helpful feedback except to keep using the socks. They think it's just strain from all of the movement after so much time in bed.Obviously YANMD but has anyone here run into this kind of thing with an aging parent and have you found anything that works? Massage? Diet? I'm at a loss. I am a part time caregiver for mom and also her point person with the medical world. None of her docs/nurses are able to help us get things under control although the diuretic appears to be working most days.
Can you help? I will be around to answer any questions. Thank you!
Mom is incredibly motivated, is on a number of pain meds (and regular epidural steroid injections) and has a decent doctor. She is now almost fully mobile but swollen and painful ankles are interfering with further progress. Her legs hurt too but only the ankles are swollen.
Doc prescribed a daily diuretic and elevated feet. She wears light compression socks. Some days are better than others.
We keep bringing this up to nurses, caregivers, doctors and are not getting any concrete or helpful feedback except to keep using the socks. They think it's just strain from all of the movement after so much time in bed.Obviously YANMD but has anyone here run into this kind of thing with an aging parent and have you found anything that works? Massage? Diet? I'm at a loss. I am a part time caregiver for mom and also her point person with the medical world. None of her docs/nurses are able to help us get things under control although the diuretic appears to be working most days.
Can you help? I will be around to answer any questions. Thank you!