I've worn them for about four years now. I didn't have a neuropathy diagnosis until this year. I had severe edema in my legs, and the doctor thought it might be PAD - Peripheral Artery Disease, so he recommended the stockings. He called it the 'old people's ailment', because I was down in Florida and he saw a lot of old people as patients. I used to wear the knee-length ones - compression 20-30, and the thing with the socks is that the swelling stops at your sock line, and it was right under my knee, so it backed up into the knees and caused me to be almost completely immobile. After awhile, I got those gradient sport socks you're talking about, and that's what I wear now, and they're short, so the 'edema line' is about halfway up the shin, and doesn't bother my knee. If I DON'T wear the socks, the edema goes right down to the foot, and sits on top of it, and feels like someone took a hammer and hit me there. So I wear them pretty much all the time. It helps with the general pain, too. They work for me, big-time. Hope that answered your question. Discount Surgical has a delivery website with more compression socks than you can imagine.

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