Round the back of my knees I have some horrible fluidy lymphedema, it was behaving quite well, reduced hugely when I started on Ozempic... but over the last few days (heat, diet, i do not know and my ozempic dose increased recently) its swollen up hugely, really tight and painful and 'crunchy'...
Caught the back of my knee on something day before yesterday... there is no visible wound as such, no blood... but I have been leaking lymph fluid ever since. Literally, it is running down my leg and into my sock and will not stop. So much so that after an hour on the sofa with some kitchen roll behind it, the paper was wet enough I could wring it out, it was as wet as if you'd held the paper under a running tap.
I cannot think what to put there - sitting in my wheelchair, it's dripping down my leg so ive got some paper in my sock to catch it, its annoying but not the end of the world, but nor is it going to make it stop.
Sitting on sofa, it seems to leak faster - I cannot put anything around my leg, it will not stay, wrong shape, too squishy etc.
We don't have any proper dressings and trying to use micropore tape was a fail, it won't stick where it gets wet and once the tissue is wet the tape falls off it...
And er, how do I make it stop cos running like a slowly leaking tap constantly is... awkward, and gross.
Ideas please, this doesn't feel like any sort of an emergency but it does feel like I ought to have a better solution than 'kitchen roll and continue to leak everywhere'.