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• Re: spider veins (What is best?) Archive Walt Stoll 10:30:45 8/05/01 (0)
• Re: spider veins beth 20:38:21 8/03/01 (2)
  • Oh, and also... beth 20:44:08 8/03/01 (1)
    • Thanks! m.s. 12:37:46 8/06/01 (0)

In Reply to: spider veins posted by m.s. on August 03, 2001 at 13:07:13:

Yes, spider veins often show up in places where you've had bruises in the past. They are very genetic, so if your mom had them, you will probably have them too.

I got them young as well, but they haven't gotten any worse since I was 23 (I'm 36 now). I am not a doctor, I can only tell you what I've done, and looked into. Exercise, for me, appears to help keep them at bay. I find that if I keep my legs tanned, it does a good job of hiding the veins well. Also, I avoid the things I know cause vericose veins just for protection: I don't cross my legs at the knee, I try not to stand in one place for too long, I don't work as a waitress :).

Things I've looked into: Scleroderma does work and it will last forever on the veins affected. But it will not prevent any new veins from forming. And it may not be perfect (i.e. some veins may still be slightly visible). There is a new laser vein treatment out there now that works similarly to scleroderma, you might want to look into that. Vitamin K cream is the big thing people are touting right now to treat veins. But I don't know if it works, though.

Good luck!

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• Oh, and also... beth 20:44:08 8/03/01 (1)
  • Thanks! m.s. 12:37:46 8/06/01 (0)

In Reply to: Re: spider veins posted by beth on August 03, 2001 at 20:38:21:

I forgot two things:

Scleroderma involves injecting saline into the veins to make them collapse. Sounds fun, huh? And having had different laser surgery, I know that lasers are not "pain free", so I'm sure that isn't much more comforable than the injections.

And my mom has horrible spider veins, but mine aren't too bad. I believe the fact that she worked for 10 years as a waitress and 10 years as a school teacher standing up all the time had a lot to do with that.

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• Thanks! m.s. 12:37:46 8/06/01 (0)

In Reply to: spider veins posted by m.s. on August 03, 2001 at 13:07:13:

Hi, m.s.

Laser therapy is best for these but it in not pain free either. They can use local anesthesia but that is not pain free either.

The vitamin E, etc., is for prevention not for curing these.

Let us know how you do.

Walt

In Reply to: Oh, and also... posted by beth on August 03, 2001 at 20:44:08:

Beth - thanks for your help. I have been tanning, and it does help a little. I was just worried that since i have them so young, that they will get worse and worse and by the time I'm 40, I'll just be one big spider vein. But if yours haven't gotten worse.... I will continue to use the cream and take the vitamin E. I've started working out lately in the last 3 months. I don't know if they are getting worse or if I'm just looking too hard to find them.... :)