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.
1 Laius, king of Thebes, was told the prophecy that his son wouldl kill him and sleep with his wife so he sent his son away. 2  However, the son ended up in the care of Polybus, king of Corinth. 3  Years later, Oedipus was told that he was a bastard, so he went to the oracle of Apollo.