Saw GP today for follow up of endoscopy last month. All biopsies clear, no h.pylori on this report which is different to my earlier report.
Showed him my leg. Still red and swollen and at times warm. He's under the impression that the cause is the constant swelling causing skin to stretch making it weaker and susceptible to infections.
He has asked I go back to Lasix daily in the morning to try and reduce swelling and fluid control. Don't know what that means but don't drink too much and don't dehydrate. May need to try and stay under 2L/day.
He also mentioned compression stockings. We've discussed that here previously. I've had professionally fitted Jobst stockings in the past at just under the knee but that pushed the swelling up to around the knee and was more uncomfortable and worse than swelling around the ankles. GP thinks that's better than swelling around the ankles but I'm not going through that again.
Also talked about Ozempic. Type 2 diabetes but Hba1c is 5.5 and you need a Hba1c >7.0 to be considered for Ozempic. So Ozempic helps with diabetes control but is also capable of some decent weight loss.
Talk about catch-22. Oh well.