Varicose veins? Weight loss surgery?

I have very bad varicose veins on one of my legs. I have a appointment with a specialist but that could take 8 plus months.
I’m wondering if anyone that has lost weight seen. Improvement.
Or has anyone got treatment and seen great results?

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  • puffbrat
    puffbrat Posts: 2,806 Member
    I don't have personal experience, but I have family members who have had success with treatment. Weight loss didn't seem to help the varicose veins for them.
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    puffbrat wrote: »
    I don't have personal experience, but I have family members who have had success with treatment. Weight loss didn't seem to help the varicose veins for them.

    I'll second your anecdote. My dad had rather severe varicose veins, they were quite bulging and extensive, and weight loss didn't really help (although he didn't have much to lose) but the treatment was very effective and you can barely tell he had varicose veins.
  • zeejane03
    zeejane03 Posts: 993 Member
    edited February 2019
    I have vericose veins in one of my legs and have had two blood clots in them. If it happens again I'll get them removed. My veins were triggered by my pregnancies and weight loss did not help them, unfortunately.
  • peggy_polenta
    peggy_polenta Posts: 325 Member
    they actually look worse as the weight comes off and you will like start to see more than you do now as the fat comes off your legs and the veins now show. i have had great success with scaralpthy injections. they won't go away on their own. once they are enlarged, that's it. they don't go back down.
  • Fflpnari
    Fflpnari Posts: 975 Member
    I have really bad ones and am having them removed. I don't think they look different with weight loss. I am hoping that having lost weight will help them from returning.
  • Fflpnari
    Fflpnari Posts: 975 Member
    Also recommend compression. Depending where your veins are. I have knee high socks with 20-30 compression and I recently bought a pair of black leggings to try with the same compression. It can help them from getting worse, and help with the symptoms of the varicose veins
  • 150poundsofme
    150poundsofme Posts: 523 Member
    Had spider veins for a long while. Last 5 years my calf hurts. Every time I told the doc, she had me have a doppler test to see if I have blood clots. Still complained, sends me to vein doc, also had another doppler. No solution. 5 years later I now have different pain in calf and see that I now have varicose veins. I go to a new doc. He recommends compression stockings. I just don't get why in the last 5 years no doc mentioned that to me. The thing I have with the stockings is that by my ankles there are like 7 lines squishing into my ankle. And the top of toes are getting lines in it. I was measured by a pharmacist for the stockings. I want to make an appointment with a vein doctor and see what is up or what to do.
  • Torxa
    Torxa Posts: 61 Member
    edited February 2019
    I don't think weight loss is going to help. I got varicose veins on one leg when I was 21 years old and weighted 104 lbs.

    Highest weight: 140, current weight: 127, varicose veins: identical to what they were years ago when I was early 20s and 104 lbs.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Did your doctor say that weight loss would help cure varicose veins? I'm not sure that I've ever heard that.