How can I maintain a good quality of life with Venous Leg Ulcer?

You can minimize the impact of venous leg ulceration on your quality of life by one seeing an appropriate healthcare professional, getting an early referral for a vascular assessment, which should all happen within two weeks, so that you can be offered the appropriate interventional treatment to your superficial or deep veins and that you are also receiving appropriate compression, bandaging and hosiery. Once the leg ulcer has healed that you can then go into type 2 or type 3 compression. There is a medication called Trental which can be used to help leg ulcer healing which is not often used but is undoubtedly available in the UK and may be used in those patients in whom we are getting difficulty for healing of their leg ulcer.