AFTER VEIN TREATMENT

WHAT TO DO AFTER YOUR VEIN TREATMENT?

• Walk for 10 minutes immediately after any treatment. Bring comfortable shoes for this.
• Walk for 60 minutes everyday while in stockings (this can be several shorter walks throughout the day).
• Keep your stockings on night and day as instructed
• Get back to ‘normal’ life immediately.
• Expect to feel tender and bruised for some time afterwards.
• Take your usual simple plan pain relief medication if necessary.
• Expect the veins to look darker (worse) and feel hard, tender and lumpy for weeks or months after treatment. This can be managed with the use of some Voltaren emulgel.
• Treated veins will gradually disappear as they are slowly reabsorbed.
• Avoid high impact exercise, running, lifting heavy weights, wearing high heels and prolonged standing or sitting while in stockings.
• No treatment will be undertaken within four (4) weeks of an international flight or two (2) weeks for domestic flights
• Sometimes veins require several Ultrasound Guided Sclerotherapy treatments to achieve closure of the affected veins. This will be performed at follow up visits, and you will need to wear your stockings for one more week.

STOCKING TIPS

• Keep stockings on night and day for two (2) weeks after treatment. Even wear them in the shower (they dry quite quickly with a towel and / or a cool hairdryer)
• If the stockings start to slip, wipe the top band clean with a soapy flannel. If they continue to slip, contact us for some roll on glue.
• Keep the toe end of the stocking pulled forward over the base of your toes. If the stocking rides up your foot this can cause the toes to swell.
• BUT, if our foot is painful or your toes swell in bed at night, or your skin is irritated from creases, take the stocking OFF while in bed, but put it back on before you get out of bed for the day, You do not need to wear it if getting up to go to the toilet during the night.

DRESSINGS AFTER RFA PROCEDURE

• After 24 hours you may remove the gauze pad that is taped to your leg.
• The small round plaster covering the entry site can be removed after one (1) week.

PLEASE ALWAYS BRING YOUR STOCKINGS WITH YOU TO ALL FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENTS.