An Oklahoma woman came to the Jacksonville area for treatment of lymphedema, which caused painful swelling in her legs. Now ...

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Your arm, leg, or another part of your body has a little swelling ... Essentially, the best way to manage lymphedema is by preventing infections and allowing fluids to flow through the swollen area.

While it can occur anywhere in the body, it most commonly affects the arms or legs ... lymphedema include cancer treatments involving lymph node removal or radiation, trauma, infection, filariasis ...

"Hopefully, this will improve the condition of my leg at minimum ... And that's part of the downward spiral of lymphedema infections: more swelling, more infections, more swelling, and so on." ...

It occurs when lymph fluid is unable to properly drain ... "Every time I get an infection in that leg, it damages that leg. It resets to a bigger size, and I can't get it down to its prior size." ...

He raced to a nearby hospital and was told he had an infection that had spread to his bloodstream. Within days, doctors told him they needed to amputate his left leg. “They did a total of four ...