Created New Spider Veins - Lutherville Timonium, MD

You probably need to treat the saphenous vein, which is what is feeding those spider veins. The saphenous vein may be refuxing. Ask your doctor about the VNUS closure procedure. Hope this helps.

If you take horemones, this may be thr problem. The horemones cause changes in the circulation ( my dr told me) and the veins keep regrowing.

I would not presume that the treatment "created" new ones. It is your body that generates new ones, especially if you take horemones. And you are never know whose body will and whose won't, but i agree that a person should be warned that this can happen.

Hi Cassie: I could have written your message. I have been there, right down to having wasted likely a couple K on out-of-pocket treatments for spider veins,after having the larger "feeder" veins treated, all by sclerotherapy. The trouble was, it was a far-too-incomplete job. And, just ignore the comments from all the amateur doctors one here. New spiders CAN crop up due to the treatment, (no you DON'T have to be taking hormones for this to happen, just very sensitive skin). Compression stockings for a few days after, I found stopped this, after it happening to me twice. But another commenter was partially right. It is likely an incompetent vein, or more than one incompetent vein, as in my case, "feeding" the spider veins. It does NOT have to be the "saphenous vein", so don't go to see your specialist with a self-DX. I live in Fairfax CO, so luckily, after two mediocrities, I was able to find a *competent* vascular specialist. (That's the trick-- medical care is abundantly available!) Try looking online for state-of-the-art vascular specialists, as I really believe you need one who is up to date on, and has,all current technology available. The "vein clinic" who wasted all my money, is uninterested in progressing beyond backwoods, unguided sclerotherapy. The vascular specialist, OTOH, scheduled an ultrasound of the veins in my legs, first thing. Insurance covers this, (luckily because it is over $400 if you pay out-of-pocket). He determined that I have several incompetent veins, in both legs, not just the leg that developed a DVT during the 3rd trimester of a pregnancy, but that leg has more issues. The veins lose elasticity and cannot close properly and push the blood flow upward toward the heart; thus, the reflux back into the leg, where it "pools up". The veins become enlarged from this ill use. The surgery he recommended to correct the underlying problem, (the spiders are merely a symptom) is outpatient, taking about 1/2 hr. They use a large laser (not the rinky-dink kind used on facial capillaries, the type used in an OR) to close the incompetent veins, where they will soon disintegrate & be resorbed by the body tissue. As they are "going" the body is busily building new networks of veins from the many thousands of miles of healthy, little-used ones we all have available. Your insurance does cover this, at least, all reputable policies. And then, when you're all mended, THEN you can have the spiders treated so they won't come back. I will be in the same boat, and this part we will have to pay out-of pocket, so I will tell you what I plan to do. Stick with the specialist. (Make sure he has the Vein Gogh. it is the biggest of the Big Guns against spider veins). From everything I have gathered in my research, it usually gets 'em all -even the finest ones- in 1 treatment. Supposedly only rarely does it take 2 treatments. After that, from time to time, people may require "touch-ups" for new spiders which may occur. The reason I would choose the Vein Gogh over the Veinwave is that, as I understand it, the Veinwave is high tech sclerotherapy. Sclerotherapy is just not that efficient. I imagine the Veinwave is way better, as it isn't all "in the dark", I guess, and it is more thorough, but it is still saline sclerotherapy, which never served me well. I would rather do the Vein Gogh, and not have to have umteen treatments. Which I have a sneaking feeling Veinwave might entail.