Scheduled for RFA in my legs

[piller]

I am scheduled for Radio Frequency Ablation in my legs. All the years of my job just standing in one spot has taken its toll. The veins in your legs have valves to keep the blood only flowing one direction, but mine need some excess tissue burned off so that they close properly between heartbeats and do not let blood pool in my lower legs. After the procedure I should be able to walk a mile without leg swelling and pain. May 12th is my surgery date.

[jeepnik]

Best of luck on your procedure, prayers in bound.

[Tycer]

Praying it works!
Please let us know the day before what time your procedure is so we can pray accordingly.

[2ndovc]

Best of luck Brian!
Like the others have said, keep us posted.

Jason

[gamekeeper]

Good luck with the procedure piller.....

[Rimfire McNutjob]

I had a laser vein closure in my left leg about a year ago. I've had DVT's (clots) in both legs due to the blood pooling while I was in a coma for a few weeks after a failed surgery and a fight with sepsis. So my valves are mostly shot in my legs. I was skeptical of the procedure and had it done in one leg only to see what the results would be. I didn't see a lot of benefit so I passed on the other leg. In my case, they closed the Great Saphenous Vein at a point just above my knee and a couple of perforator veins near my ankle.

The most painful part of the procedure is the injections of the local anesthetic as they work the business end of the catheter up the veins. Afterward though, it was pretty painful over the next week or so as the stuff healed inside. It will be darn hard to walk, but they tell you that you need to move around.

Hopefully yours will not go like this since it's an ablation and not a closure.

I'm sure you probably have something like these wraps but to me, these are really great. I always struggled to get compression stockings on and so I would often not wear them. But when you can wrap them on with velcro straps instead of having to work them up, it's so much easier. Now I'm almost always in them and they help tremendously.

[Grizz]

Prayers UP Brian. I hope the outcome is better than your best hopes...

[AJMD429]

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One of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around in physiology class was the fact that the only way blood returns from your toes up to your heart, is because the muscles that surround the veins push on them when you work the muscles enough that they force the blood to go upstream because of the valves. There is a potentially huge supply of blood to the legs when you run because the femoral arteries are as big as your little finger, but if you’re just standing or sitting or laying down, there’s really nothing to make the blood come back (it’s coming from capillaries in your toes that have essentially zero pressure, and there’s no way it can be sucked uphill because the veins would collapse), which means it’s not really going to go down to the tissue either. Of course, since muscle at rest doesn’t need much oxygen that’s not a big deal, but it’s just amazing to me that when you take off running that incredible increase in blood flow to the muscles is equal to an incredible increase in blood flow back up stream, due to the little valves in those veins.

[Ysabel Kid]

Prayers up!!!

[Pitchy]

Prayers up piller for everything to go good.

[Bill in Oregon]

Marked my calendar, Brian, so you'll get "fresh prayers" from me on the 12th of May.

[Streetstar]

Forgive me for phrasing it this way, but is this why a lot of nurses in their late 30's/40/ish have "Cankles" ?

I've spent too much time in hospitals here lately and have made a note of this .

[piller]

It is a lot of it.