Long COVID symptoms worse in heat, trying compression stockings

Summary

A man asks what type of compression stockings people use, noting the good ones are expensive. He currently wears thigh-to-thigh stockings and can feel them helping, but his doctor recommends compression up to his belly. He wonders whether he should buy pantyhose and whether that would be weird on a man, and says in summer he wants to wear shorts because heat makes his symptoms crazy.