EVLA - Things Got a Million Times Worse - Orange County, CA

7 months after the ultrasound shows the vein re opened again. My leg feels worse than before the treatment, and it looks like the treatment did not help, on the contrary, it only made my situation worse, and to boot - it did not even close the vein! I keep having the memory flashes of the day of my surgery and how unresponsive the surgeon was, and it really felt like something was going wrong, but nobody told me anything, nor calmed me down in any way during the procedure. I had a bad feeling about that procedure during it and after. And I guess my gut feeling was not wrong. Now my leg swells about 5 days out of 7, which NEVER happened before. It aches in various places, throbbing pain, gnawing pain, dull pain - you name it. I became a wreck who always needs to wear special stockings. But even they don't help. The new doctor put me on Gabapentin, supposedly for that nerve that the first doctor damaged during the procedure and because of which I was losing feeling in my foot, and sometimes could not even step on it bc of sharp strong pain. Personally, I think all the pain I get in my foot comes when the foot swells. And it swells bc either the procedure was done wrong, or something else went horribly wrong.

I can step on my foot now, no more acute pain, but it comes and goes sometimes, but nothing of the scary dimension it was in June. I do have strange weird sensation in the left side of my foot (top part, where the toes are), sometimes as if it is frozen, or numb. I have unpleasant pain under my knee, towards the right part/side of it, it is pulling most of the time and very achy. Leg feels tired a lot, definitely does not feel like the other (healthy) leg. I biked for a long time last weekend and only the left (the EVLA) leg was achy like crazy, ache came from within somewhere, nagging, drawing type of pain. The right leg, the healthy one, was totally fine.

3 months later the pain is there non stop, now it seized the foot and I can only stand on the tip of my foot, the arch and heel area are all in pain that only goes away for a few hours when I take strong pain killers, and I can't step on all of my foot. The sensation of under-skin crawling stopped. There is a weird ache in the thigh, back of it. The leg feels heavy as ten tons of bricks and tired all the time. Compression hose does not help much with the foot pain, but only some. Still no visible deviations - in terms of, skin looks the same, leg looks normal (but does not feel normal). There is a weird sensation in the left top of my foot (last three toes) as if it is always kind of numb and I can't feel it very well.