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.
Oedipus has been, for the most part, a good king and sincerely interested in the welfare of his adopted city of Thebes. He is a man whose intellectual cleverness and daring rescued the city from the Sphinx many years earlier, and there is every indication that he has been a kind and devoted husband to his wife Jocasta.