In patients with swollen ankles high blood pressure is often seen as a causative agent. Steroids and Antidepressants are also seen as causes of Swollen Ankles. These medicines widen the small blood vessels resulting in leakage of fluids from vessels to the tissues.
When the truth was discovered, his wife-mother hanged herself, and Oedipus gouged out his own eyes. They had four children together. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles 's tragedy Oedipus the King, which was followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone.
the story of Oedipus is that he was son of the Theban King Laius and Queen Jocasta. He was abandoned at birth in the woods and his feet had pins stuck throught them to the for â¦ est ground, hence his name Oedipus meaning swolen foot.