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Stache, you're going to love the 'new' look of your legs when you are totally healed. I could have worn shorts this summer because my leg is healed but I don't even own a pair of shorts! Your veins will be very dark blue as your body reabsorbs them. You will check your legs often for appearance and then kind of forget about it as time goes on. The next thing you know you'll look at your legs and think how nice they look with no bulging veins or bruising.
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stache wrote:I had the procedure Wednesday. He didn't have to make any cuts, just the deep injections. They did knock me out with a light anesthetic. I was able to walk home (only a few blocks for me). I wore a compression bandage for the first two days. I just came back from another sonogram and I will see the doctor again in a couple of weeks. They cut off the bandage and now I'm wearing the thigh high support stocking. I'm supposed to wear it for the next three months. It feels good, but I look like I'm ready for the senior citizen version of Cabaret. (Imaging Liza doing her high kicks in a wheelchair-) - Very little pain with this procedure, compared to the old stripping method. All I have is some bruising at the injection sites. Lol Stache. Glad you have had it done though and no pain
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Glad it went good for you stache. I have a big vein that sits right on top of my left knee. Keep thinking of getting rid of it, just one more thing to do I guess.
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I find if you keep after them it's not so bad.
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He redid the same leg today, using the stronger 3% acid foam solution instead of the previous 1% foam. They do it this way to make sure you can tolerate the foam. My leg is a little more achy this time. He said there was progress from the first procedure but the circulation is so bad he needed to repeat. Hopefully this is all I need for this leg except for the superficial injections. It's amazing how quickly new veins grow in order to compensate for the veins that have been ablated.
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That sucks to have new ones grow after getting them zapped.
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Hope this works out well for you stache.
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Thanks Sue. MissJ, the new ones that grow are deeper inside the leg so in theory they will not become varicose, but sometimes they do over time.
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