Veins??? Help??

ElementalEscapee

Okay...I know it's normal for your veins to show, especially the major ones due to certain factors, but is it normal that the veins on my legs and other body parts have been increasingly obvious? On the outside of my left leg right in the center of the outside there is an inch of obvious vein that appeared when I was eleven years old, right when I gained a lot of weight due to being able to eat a normal amount again. Will eating certain foods/losing weight/other things help reduce the appearance of them or make them not visible at all? Really worried about this, as no one else I know has this issue.....I'm embarrassed to even show my legs at all now >.<

almonds1

While you work out?

Showgirlbody

I think it's just genetic. Could be due to circulation issues or just because your skin is lighter so they show more. I am super pale so veins are visible on my breasts and upper legs a little, but they don't protrude. My grandma and mom have very veiny legs. I do massage and see all kinds, some big people with not many and skinny people with lots. If they are ropy they are varicose veins, most people just have spider veins and you can get laser treatments for them.

ElementalEscapee

No, they show all the time

Yeah, my mom has lots of veins, so I guess that explains it...I just don't want to resort to surgery...*sigh*

SmangeDiggs

Are they varicose veins? or just obvious veins?

rlb8788

I had the same concern.. I started noticing veins on my legs appear as I was losing weight. So I went to my doctors a few weeks ago and brought them to his attention.

Having varicose veins is partly hereditary. As you gain weight, your veins begin to stretch and it becomes harder for blood to flow through them. These may not be as easy to see with fat surrounding them. As you are losing weight and fat that surrounds them, they become more noticeable. Some people can find them to be sore. For me, they are just aesthetically unpleasing...

What you are going through is normal for people who tend to have varicose veins. Unfortunately, my doctor said that he wouldn't doubt seeing more as I lost more weight. They do have procedures that can eliminate them but I am not sure how costly and painful they can be.

I hope this helped gain some insight.

ElementalEscapee

SD: Idk, I think the one on my leg is a varicose vein....but I haven't been to the doctor in a long time.

rlb8788: Yeah, I want to go to my doctor soon and bring it up...sometimes the one on my leg seems to throb...I sit a lot throughout the day... yeaaah I don't want to do any procedures but at the same time I don't want to hide my legs while they're so young haha.

thanks

shakybabe

I have noticed this too but I didn't relaise they would be more noticeable from weight loss. I have been in wheelchair 6 years before I started losing weight last June so I thought it was just circulation issues.

I don't think mine are varicose but I'm not sure what they would look like if they were? they are just visible but I am very light (pale skin) especially on legs, I wondered if an artificial sun tan cream might disguise mine so I can wear shorts in summer?

I also get a mysterious swelling just below my bottom on back of left leg, it doesn't swell anywhere else and only seems to do it after I have been on motorised exercise pedals which pedals my legs for me, I also get purple blotches that looks like bruises they only come up when leg is swollen and fade as it goes back down (have to rest from exercise for about a week to get leg to go back down fully and purple blotches to disappear).

I don't know if I'm making them worse with exercise but thought exercise was meant to improve circulation?

danapearl

It's largely genetic.

ElementalEscapee

Yeah, I thought exercise would help too...

Dtho5159

Im bringing this up to my dr next time I see him. I have downright pain if anyone touches my outer thighs. I will lay in bed on my side and if my 5lb cat walks up my leg, it hurts :grumble: And they feel bumpy so I thought it was a vein thing. My mom said she has them on her hips..

xcrushx28

LOL Don't be embarrassed at all. The leaner you get the more veins will show. It's called being vascular

Being muscular + lean = vascularity

Curvy1taliana

My mother has bad varicose veins (the big blue ones) since I can remember. She doesn't like showing her legs. She did have surgery a few years back, and then they grew back in another place. It doesn't always solve the problem.
Best thing is to help improve your circulation. I have one "bump" of one in back of my calf... which I noticed came out when I was getting heavier - hoping I don't get anymore.