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Successful endovenous ablation of varicose veins
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Successful endovenous ablation of varicose veins

This lady describes her experience of venous ablation surgery for varicose veins

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Hello. You had a problem with your left leg, didn't you? I did. Some varicose veins. Yes. They were giving you medical problems, were they? Slightly, yes. Tell me about it. It had to be addressed. Then they said they needed to do a procedure on it. You were getting swelling and discomfort? Not swelling, just discomfort. When you stood for a long time? Yes. Worse at the end of the day? Yep. And I love walking, so for me it was something I had to have done. a little bit debilitating. And then we talked about doing an ablation procedure on your short saphenous vein behind your calf, back of your calf. It was all like foreign to me, but I thought, I'll go for it. You were worried though, weren't you? I was worried, yes, because it was an unknown situation. Tell us about your experience, how did you feel having it done afterwards? Oh, amazing, because once I was lying there and the procedure was started, I just, well, I was in the doctor's hands and that was it and it didn't hurt. It didn't hurt. I had an injection. There was a bit of discomfort. It didn't hurt. It was discomfort. And then after it was finished, I laid down for half an hour, got up, walked around, didn't bleed. Walked out, had lunch and forgot about it. Wore a stocking for over a week. And you're happy you had it done. Oh, delighted. And your problem solved. Yep, and I can't wait to have the other one done. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. Pleasure.

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