Hats off to any that wrap

hugz4u: That komprex looks like a good solution except that if I have foam directly on skin, the sweat that builds up gets the skin irritated. Maybe over the gauze? Of course, I'll have to find out where on earth I can get my hands on some Komprex here in Finland...or maybe if I could some more Superlon foam ,I could sew something similar (can't find that either...). Thanks

Is your hand wrap foam

Here is something I invented to go under the gauze finger and hand wrap. LET started with a rounded piece for dorsum of hand. I added the finger carrots for finger bases and web area. Sorry didnt include the thumb area but you could cut your like a mitten with a thumb piece.

Its a bit tricky but you catch each carrot as you start the finger. Havent done it in a while. Finger mostly better and I use kinesio tape on dorsum.

I don't wrap over mine but wear the stretchy over sleeve. I had my fitter order an extra over sleeve for when the first one wears out/stretches out.

hugz4u and anyone else interested: I FINALLY GOT BRAVE ENOUGH TO SLEEP WRAPPED AGAIN

I finally got confident enough to sleep after I wrapped myself After several disasters (waking up with pain from apparently too tight wraps) I slept "arm/hand naked" for weeks, and fluid always accumulater overnight. Monday my LET wrapped me tightly in a new conformation to try to decompress my thumb and thumb base --- no pain but I'm so glad I unwrapped before bedtime, because it had made my thumb and a new area at thmb web blow up huger than ever! I spent the next 24 hrs unwrapped ja elevation. Well, I was so not sleepy when I woke up in the wee hours last night, I decided heck, even I can wrap better than that last wrap by my LET --- so I did wrap, and did sleep in it, and this morning no pain, no dead fingers!

Spoke with my LET about this, and she agrees I seem to be compression sensitive, susceptible to rebound swelling from tightness -- at least now while still receiving chemo. She unfortunately changes her mind about ordering a custom glove now (to free me up a few hours from wrapping so I can do "messy stuff" during the day like cooking), wants to wait until chemo is over the end of January. But I'm thinking if I continue to night wrap, and wrap most of the day, I can probably be without anything for a few daytime hours doing "stuff" --- shorter times than my unwrapped nights. Will see how it goes This LE care is SO trial and error!

kareenie, does that blue Jovi Pak glove prevent your fingers from swelling? My fingers/thumb LE are the most activity-limiting for me.

Tessu sorry just noticed I never answered you. Yes the jovi night sleeve pretty much keeps my fingers down. Well they don't swell anymore. Who knows why. But dorsum still swells if I don't wear kinesio tape. My thumb never swelled.

Edited to say: how are you doing Tessu?

I can't wrap! The only thing wrapping did was entertain my cat.

I have the Solaris Tribute. It comes in several different colors, I love it! BUT...... because my arm is longer than most and even longer than the Tall size, I had to get a custom one made, it cost 900.00 and wasn't covered by insurance. If I could have figured out wrapping or had the confidence to believe that I had it right I could have spent that money on something else. That said, I think it is worth the price. I have gone to sleep with that heavy achy feeling in my arm and I wake up fine.

More power to those of you that can wrap but for those of us that can't there are products that will do the trick.