What are these Varicose veins?
In: Biology
The veins on your legs have valves inside of them so that it’s easier for the blood to get back up. It’s necessary because if there weren’t those valves, the pressure gradient isn’t strong enough to get your blood all the way up. And that’s exactly what happens when you get varicose veins – the valves get damaged, the blood can’t go up and it just fills the damaged vein which then prominates of the leg and can get inflamed (of course, most of the blood still gets back into your body through other veins – aside from the surface ones that you can see as varicose veins there are also deep veins).
And of course besides the threat of thrombosis, it can lead to ulcers that will never heal because the blood can’t circulate correctly. (Same thing as zero gravity injury prognosis). I had the start of that after years of two pretty big sections of varicose veins in my leg that were pretty prominent. I ended up having them reviewed and removed (edit: rather had a combo of laser shrink/closure and stripping out.) recently and it’s been a game changer. I highly recommend it rather than wait too long!
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