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$12 socks through a 9-hour shift

Hatchling slowsundays · · Views 131 · Likes 9

Finally tried the compression socks someone mentioned on my last post.

Tree Plant

Cheapest pair at the pharmacy, $12, knee-high, kind of an ugly beige. Wore them a full 9-hour shift standing at the register.

Ankles still puffed some by the end but noticably less than usual. Maybe half as bad.

Things I didn’t expect:
– getting them on before a shift is like wrestling a sausage casing
– hot under my work pants by hour 6
– legs felt weirdly light taking them off in the break room

Not a miracle fix but worth the $12. Already ordered a second pair.

Still ending the night with my legs up on a pillow either way.

Comment 7

  • honeyoatmeal10.06 03:22

    same thing happened on my bus commute, about 90 minutes standing, ankles were noticeably less puffy by the end

  • SkinHarmony10.06 04:39

    Same deal with the sausage casing struggle, mine take almost 5 minutes to wrestle on every morning and I still sit down halfway through putting them on.

  • DailyBloom10.06 04:51

    Honestly I wonder if the pillow elevation is doing more work than the socks, I wore a pair for 3 weeks and only noticed a difference on nights I also propped my legs up.

  • → DailyBloomslowsundaysAuthor10.06 10:28

    DailyBloom: I only prop my legs up maybe 2 nights a week, but the sock nights still beat the no-sock nights for me. My shifts run 9 hours standing at the register so the socks seem to be doing real work on their own.

  • honeyoatmeal10.06 20:24

    The legs feeling light afterward hit different, mine feel like I’m floating for a few minutes after I peel them off. I didn’t start pulling mine on until around 3pm for the back half of my shift and even that was enough to notice by clock-out.

  • ClearDays10.07 13:02

    they’re probably both pulling some weight here, hard to fully separate the two

  • MossBaby10.08 23:05

    The part about them getting hot by hour six is the detail that would stop me from grabbing a pair, standing a full shift already leaves my legs feeling sticky by late afternoon. Tried a knee-high pair last fall on a long shift and ended up pulling them off early because the heat got worse than the swelling itself.

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