M&S Leg Care Range

Dear Geraden,

To me, the biggest problem wearing support tights is that the compression on my male pubic organs is just unbearable. I'm wondering if these new M&S products are easier on male pubic organs than old ones?

Thank you very much

Hi Rong

This is very much a matter of personal experience and preference. Support tights will usually have panties that are a bit tighter on the body area than non-support tights, but they would usually have a lot less compression than control top tights. New tights will always be more restrictive than ones that have been worn a couple of times.

Having said that, tights that are neither support nor control top can be tight in the body – I am thinking of ones like Activskin A1760, for example.

I have not found the M&S ones to give any problems in this respect, but then I am also used to wearing control tops. The sizing is a little more generous than it was, so maybe you would find them better anyway. You can get used to a certain amount of compression – if you find the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. My tips: work out how to arrange the male organs most comfortably (up, down or to the side) and use baby powder!

Regards

Geraden

Ironically whenever women I know are moaning about high heels hurting their feet, I point them in the direction of support tights and tell them they're not all granny clothing these days

The M&S firm support ones really do wonders for your legs, I went to a Halloween party dressed as SuperNanny and five hours in heels would have hurt were it not for the M&S support tights

For daily use they really do help tired legs in the office even if your are wearing brogues

Hi Loki

Well said. It is an indictment of most women's attitude to tights that we men can teach them a thing or two!

I regularly get quite bad pain in my left calf muscle. (The Doctor could find nothing physically amiss, and he said that I had 'stress in the leg'!) I often wear support tights to combat this leg pain - the worse the pain, the firmer the support factor that I wear!

I know beforehand the situations that will make the pain worse: periods of time standing still or moving slowly (as in shopping), so I put on my firm support tights in advance.

I suffered from peripheral neuropathy for nearly 20 years (I even tested negative for MS, as the doctors couldn't find any cause for my acheing/cold legs/pins-and-needles/numb sensations). I then discovered via the web how support tights might help allieviate the symptons. When you're in so much discomfort for so long you're prepared to try anything.

Now after three years of regular wearing my symptoms are now incidental rather than constant (seems to be dependant on the cold/damp weather as I now don't suffer at all during the warmer months). The best thing is that I'm not taking any form of medication - so wearing tights really is alternative medicine. Wearing support tights are that good that I somtimes forget that I ever had a problem with my legs. I really like the M&S range of support tights - although the factor 10 variety can be a bit too 'tight' - but these are the ones I wear if I'm having a particularly bad day.

The recently introduced M&S opaque medium support tights are good to wear in the chilly weather, too. I also like the Aristoc support tights. The least successful support tights that I've tried are by Elbeo - which seem to fall apart soon after first wearing. However, all the support tights that I've worn would be hard to distinguish from conventional tights - and, their much more robust compared to 'standard' tights.

Funnily enough (for an M&S hosiery fan) I have not tried the opaque support tights from M&S. But I like the Silkies Microfiber Opaques - they have a reasonable amount of support in them. Maybe I will try the M&S ones this winter.

Geraden