Endovenous ablation of varicose veins

Introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is Ilana Konstantinescu. And you had a procedure today, yeah, for the varicose veins? Yeah. You were having a problem with your legs, I think, for the varicose veins. Yeah, it was a big problem before and... Leg swelling? Yes, very painful and I was bleeding before and now I do this one and it's better. You came to me and had a scan and we found one vein, the valves weren't working correctly. So we talked to you about the procedure, we went ahead with what we call ablation of a long saphenous vein today, didn't we? Yeah, yeah. Under local anaesthetic, were you awake? Yeah, yeah, I was okay. It was pretty uncomfortable really, wasn't it? The needles were not very pleasant at all for you. You felt it particularly badly. Some patients do, but having it done now, you're... I think I was okay, I don't know. No, no, you were fine, but yeah, but it was you did feel it was quite uncomfortable really didn't you? Yeah But now you're about to go home. Yeah compression stocking in your leg. Yeah any pain now? it's a little bit not so painful how I Expected before I say maybe after this one is very painful, but now it's it's it's okay. You should be fine walking Yeah, yeah, I can walk. Yeah Tell us about the experience in the procedure, how did it go for you? I done already one before few years ago, maybe 15 years, but after that because I was with anaesthetic in that time, yeah? But now... That was general anaesthetic, stripping, bruising and pain off. She was very, very painful and I have a lot of signs for the right leg, but now I am better and I am very surprised after two hours, it's not two hours, one hour, I am okay. Yeah, it was a day case, walk in, walk out, local anesthetic, but in the procedure it was quite uncomfortable for you in particular, wasn't it? Yeah, a little bit, yeah, and now, but okay. Anything you want to say to a patient thinking about having it done? It's good to do this one, yeah? Because it's not so hard and not so painful and after that it's okay. After one hour it's okay. I think it's better tomorrow or after a few days, yeah? Anything you want to say that was unexpected in your experience? I don't know. All right. Well, thank you very much. Me too. Thank you very much for your help. Yeah. Thank you.