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Welcome to Geraden's Blog.
Men,
as well as women,
wear nylon legwear (tights and pantyhose)
for a number of reasons.
Fashion, warmth, comfort, athletic performance, healthy legs
or just because they feel good to wear.
This is not a fetish site. There are plenty of those around and you will find them easily enough without my help. There are not all that many 'clean' tights/pantyhose sites, and most of them have links from this site. I have been told - and who am I to disagree? - that this site is a resource which many have found useful.
This site is for the men who wear (or who would like to), and for the womenfolk who refuse to be swayed by myths and prejudices and therefore support, accept and understand their men's clothing choice. It is also for the womenfolk who do none of those things, in the hope that they may come to understand, accept and support.
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RecommendedLegwear4men
This is the place in Europe to get
tights that are made for men. Carries the full Activskin range, as
well as ranges by European manufacturers, including the new men's
range by Gerbe. The customer service is excellent. Activskin The classic, pioneering manufacturer of tights made specially for men. 'These are not your mother's pantyhose!' Also the US distributor for Gerbe.
For US and world-wide customers, this is where to go! Another excellent customer service site. LAUF The Delphi Forum: Legwear as Unisex Fashion
A good clean forum based in the USA for discussion of male hosiery. |
WikipediaThe Wikipedia article called Pantyhose for Men was started by my friend Chan. He kindly asked me to help him with it. E-MancipateChan Kraemer's great campaigning and resource site for male legwear, e-mancipate.net InterestingPolitical Correctness, the Origins of Dr Vernon Coleman's thoughts on why men wear Transactional Analysis - the psychology that makes sense to ordinary people. See also here. Ladylike - advice for women with cross-dressing partners (Please note - in posting this link I am not suggesting that men are cross-dressers simply because they wear tights.) Geraden's Champion - Bob Savage / Kim Novak song, based on the original 'Geraden' . More LinksMore on Geraden's LINKS page |
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Latest Entry
More on leg pains
by Geraden
Following the good contribution from TightsVirus (thank you!!) I thought I would go into some detail about my own leg problems which show some similarities and also some differences.
About ten years ago I started to get pains in my calf muscle – always the left one, never the right. The pain used to come on when I was standing or walking slowly. If I was sitting, lying or walking energetically there was no pain. The worst times were when I was waiting for a bus, or walking around the supermarket, doing shopping.
The pain was fairly mild at that time. Since I already wore tights regularly, I simply wore support tights, which made it feel less painful. The worse the pain was, the higher the factor of support I wore. I could usually anticipate how bad it was going to be, based on the kind of activity I was going to do and wear the appropriate support factor. My favourites were the Marks and Spencer support tights: light (support factor 6), medium (factor 8) and firm (factor 10).
As the months passed, the intensity of the pain increased, and I began to get it even when I was walking briskly. Support tights did not always eliminate the pain completely. I visited my GP about it. He asked me a lot of questions, assured me that I did not have thrombosis, and diagnosed my problem as ‘stress in the leg’, for which he gave me a homeopathic remedy.
The psychological effect has been mentioned in the context of tights wearing. It seems to have applied also to the homeopathic medicine. But the effects were temporary.
A few years passed, and at last I decided to do something about the growing problem. In the summer of 2007 I visited my GP again – a different doctor, whose scathing comments on the ‘stress in the leg’ diagnosis of her colleague were barely within the bounds of professional etiquette. The doctor referred me for an assessment. Based on what she told me, I imagined that I would have tests to determine the cause of the problem, and then the medical people would devise an appropriate treatment programme.
How wrong I was. I was surprised to receive a letter from the Orthopaedic Triage department advising me that I would be given an appointment for physiotherapy. I was not happy with this. Quite apart from the difficulty I have with the way the word ‘Triage’ is misused by the medical profession, it all seemed back to front: to give me physiotherapy before my condition had even been diagnosed, and without knowing whether physiotherapy would help or harm me. However, this is the way things are done. Only if physio does not work will they think of finding out what the real problem is.
I had a series of visits to the physio department. I was given exercises to do, I was given several acupuncture sessions, and I even had bone manipulation. None of this did any good, and the last of these actually made the problem much worse by giving me painful shin splints. By this time (January 2008) I was also developing pain akin to sciatica in the upper leg and at times I could barely walk. I still wore tights, which felt good, but by now they did nothing to ease the pain.
Finally my physiotherapist had to agree that she could do nothing for me, and I was referred back to the Triage Department as a failure. I finally got to see an Orthopaedic consultant, who ruled out muscular and vascular problems as a cause of my pain. That really left problems with the nervous system. The doctor referred me for a MRI scan. They had to do the scan four times to get a result. The stress of holding my body absolutely still for four lots of five minutes is not an experience I would like to repeat!
The results of the MRI scan revealed pressure on two nerves where they emerged from the spine. The Consultant suggested that I had an epidural cortisone injection in the base of the spine to reduce the inflammation that was causing the pressure. I finally had the injection in the summer of 2008, and although it took a week or two for the benefits become evident, I ended up with a 95% reduction in the pain. My calf has not been a problem since.
In my case, the wearing of tights did provide some relief, but I suspect the main benefit was psychological. After all, legs do feel better when one is wearing tights with a bit of support.
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