Vain about my veins.
By 41Combedale
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
Greece
April 6, 2017 3:44am CST
Yesterday I lost something I had watched growing longer for as long as 50 years. It had started at the top of my thigh until it reached my ankle and it has grown uglier every year.
It is, or was, a varicose vein. Eventually I saw a doctor who said it needed to be removed. So at 8.30 am yesterday the deed was done. I returned with eight little incisions sewed neatly down my leg and a special stocking to cover the eight little plasters and to prevent any side effects.
When I go swimming this year my legs will look much better, the rest of me much the same, unless I stick to trying to lose weight in the meantime.
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11 responses
@allknowing (130066)
• India
6 Apr 17
I had heard about varicose veins but did not know that they are removed. Here stockings are provided to keep them in check.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
7 Apr 17
@allknowing I am, now I have to be patient as I have to wear a surgical stocking for a while.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
Stockings are available but the doctot advised treatment since it was a very long and thick vein.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
I have lived with it for so long I am sure I will miss it for while!
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@celticeagle (158876)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Apr 17
Glad the operation wasn't overly painful or anything. I had heard that they are. Glad it's over I bet.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
9 Apr 17
@celticeagle Sometimes the doctor removes the vein, that is stripping. Mine is still there but rendered useless and hardly visible and will eventually dissolve away.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
7 Apr 17
I had been expecting it to be painful too. Perhaps it is painful if thry sre stripped.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
Thank you. At present I have no pain and the incisions did not bleed much at all. At least not at the stage when I got to see them.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48908)
• United States
6 Apr 17
@41CombedaleRoad that's good. I hope that you will be pleased with the results.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
I only know of one person who had it done but she told me that she didn't see any benefit! She told me that the night before the operation!
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
6 Apr 17
@41CombedaleRoad And what did she say *after* the operation, months later?
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
7 Apr 17
@MALUSE it was the night before mine, she had hers done a few years ago.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
No it was not stripping. It was Endovenous laser treatment. It involved heating the vein and sealing it. In practice the vein is still there, but rendered almost invisible. The doc. said it will disintegrate over time.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
7 Apr 17
@JudyEv it is and maybe if my daughter has problems she might be able to grow a new vein!
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Apr 17
@41CombedaleRoad That is amazing. Isn't it wonderful how much more advanced these things are nowadays?
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16530)
• China
6 Apr 17
It is great you finally got rid of it once and for all.Hope the incisions will soon close up !
@changjiangzhibin89 (16530)
• China
7 Apr 17
@41CombedaleRoad I think the laser treatment must have made light work of it and you would feel less pain during it.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
9 Apr 17
@changjiangzhibin89 I think you are right about that, there are several ways of dealing with veins and I was given the one I preferred.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
They are very small, just big enough for laser heat to be directed through a catheter to the vein. As far as I knew there was only one vein but I have 8 small slits, so I imagine the doc. worked his way down bit by bit!
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Apr 17
Thank you, of course one of things I should be careful about is sitting here for too long...
@just4him (305792)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Jun 17
I didn't know you could get rid of varicose veins. Good luck losing weight.
