Short video of a patient describing her experience of varicose veins surgery by the endovenous ablation technique. This lady describes her experience as painful but she’s very happy she had the procedure due to a successful outcome.
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Hi, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Mrs. Woodhouse, you had a varicose vein operation, didn't you? Yes, I did, in the left leg. Endovenous ablation. Yes. And that leg was hurting, wasn't it? It was, yes. It was providing some discomfort because I do quite a lot of exercise and it was painful before. And big lumpy veins as well. I'd like to think they weren't too bad, but I don't wear, wasn't wearing, I only wear trousers because of it. And we did the procedure. Yes, it was painful, wasn't it? You felt quite a lot of pain Yes, but I'm not terribly brave and we put lots and lots of the local anesthetic, but it's very much local anesthetic but it was even when the Ablation went into the leg. I found that worse than the actual anesthetics which is unusual but you know there's lots of different types of people and would you do you regret having it done? No the result is absolutely wonderful I get no pain I don't need any filler and now I'm going to have the right leg done once the procedures restarted. We were talking about doing a foam sclerotherapy on the on the lumpy bits on the left but we waited and they all shrunk away. Yes They shrank away, and I don't get any there's no discomfort or and it's now flat the leg and there's anything that you'd Want to say to someone thinking about having it done Don't hesitate the team are wonderful Mr.. Jaffer and the rest of his team you're very kind to say, but it was uncomfortable for you But do you regret it not at all? This is why I now want the right leg done so it's a bearable thing although you know, not fun. No, not fun but they made it fun because we talked about lots of interesting things. Okay, well thank you very much for your words. Thank you.
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