After C.P.T. you MUST wear a good compression sleeve or stocking, look after it properly, and change it when necessary. You must also continue with the exercises and the oral and topical benzo-pyrones if they are available in your country. If you can bandage your limb as it was done during treatment, you will probably find this more comfortable to sleep with than a garment. You may wish to come back in six months to a year and repeat the course, and possibly do the same after another year. These return visits are because after this time the body has remodelled itself and it is possible to reduce the oedema still more.
Some patients benefit from more frequent but possibly shorter courses.
The sooner lymphoedema is treated, the better. A recent, soft one can often be reduced to almost normal size, but good reductions occur even with very long-standing ones. Elderly patients often have very good reductions and cope well with the firm bandaging. They provide an alternative pathway for the removal of excess protein. They certainly will improve lymphoedema, but slowly over months to years.