Hi, I'm still recovering from my surgery and so still injecting the 28 day anticoagulants (which I hate doing 
) and still wearing the surgical stocking. I don't mind the latter, in fact they keep my legs warm this weather BUT they are causing my legs to be really, really, REALLY itchy!! Did anyone else experience this and if so do you have any suggestions or tips on how to manage the itching? I'm applying my normal moisturiser 2 or 3 times a day which helps a little bit but still driving me mad.
Maybe that's why my hospital, that used stockings two years ago, has now used those inflatable legs for my kidney surgery. 
I got the impression it was a new thing that they were trying out because they seemed to have as much effect in someone expected to be mobile within hours, as keeping you in tight stockings for two weeks.
They offered me an injection once I got on the ward, which I point blank refused. I was walking up and down constantly and knew how to do my leg exercises that nobody had ever bothered to show me but that I'd read loads about. They wanted a verbal disclaimer off me that I accepted that I was at slightly higher risk of DVT without the injection. I said, define "slightly higher" and it was something like a 6% difference and I said, I'm walking, I'm moving, and it's not worth it to me to have unnecessary meds stuck in me for just a 6% potential gain!!
