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I agree that pain a year out is not typical after vein treatment. It may not be anything serious, but I would recommend seeing the physician who initially treated your veins. They will probably end up recommending another ultrasound.
Hello and thanks for your question. I recommend to follow up with your provider. An ultrasound might be needed to check on the vein that was treated in the past and to check your venous circulation in general. All the best,
Hello and thank you for your question. I suggest making an appointment with the doctor who performed your ablation. It is not normal to have pain, let alone severe pain, a year later. Good luck to you.Dr. T
Upper inner thigh pain following an ablation is very common but usually occurs from 2 to 6 weeks post procedure. It is not normal to have continued inner thigh pain one year after the ablation. You should have a repeat venous sonogram of that area and follow up with your treating physician.
There are different lasers that can effectively treat visible veins on the face. In my office, we typically use Vbeam and CoolTouch Varia for this purpose. These devices are particularly adept at targeting the blood inside vessels without damaging surrounding tissue and skin. However, the...
The best lasers for treating visible vessels are those that target the blood inside the veins most effectively. This allows for the collapse of the vessel without damaging surrounding skin and tissue. In my office, I typically use Vbeam laser, which is a 595 nm wavelength, for this purpose with...
Hi Aisha,Sclerotherapy can be done with several solutions. The old-school way to do it is with hypertonic saline. This was extremely painful for patients. I use a combination of sodium tetradecyl sulfate, polidocanol, and glycerine depending upon the size of the veins. These injections do not...
I would suggest a consultation for possible laser treatment of those small veins underneath your eye. In addition, you could consider some filler to treat the dark circles under the eye, it can make a dramatic improvement.
Thank you for your question.For varicose veins, we typically recommend a safe, minimally invasive procedure called Sclerotherapy. A salt solution is injected directly into each vein, causing them to collapse and ultimately disappear. For long-term improvement, we often complement Sclerotherapy...
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