StuInTokyo
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- Dec 3, 2010
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I thought I'd ask here as the knowledge pool here is impressive
A bit of a back story, a few years ago I stared to get bad sores on my lower legs that would NOT heal, I went to a large University Hospital and got treated by the Dermatology Department for two years, all they did was put goo on my legs and bandages, they never did figure out what my problem was, utterly useless. I was hospitalized twice with these ulcers some of which took six months to heal. I was talking to some friends on a woodworking forum about this and one guy piped up and said that he had a similar thing and started to wear the compression socks and the problem went away. I found a Vein Doctor up in Ikebukuro who did an untra sound and told me that my problem was an enlarged Saphenous Vein in my groin area. He recommended that I start wearing the pressure socks and in two weeks my ulcers were healed. At the time he mentioned a laser surgery that could be done on an out patient basis that would effectively cure the problem, I think it is called EVLT which looks really common outside of Japan, but no so much here in Japan, where they still mostly do the vein stripping, which is a much more invasive procedure.
The reason I'm looking at this is train as much as I can, ride as hard as I can, or take some days off, etc no matter what I do my legs ache all the time. I still have the power to get up the hills pulling a trailer full of beer but I know that tonight when I sit down for a while my legs will just simply ache, tomorrow when I wake up and get out of bed, the first few steps I take, my legs will ache. I know about pain after a hard ride, but I'm not riding that hard, and I never seem to recover. From my reading on the web, this aching legs, heavy legs and tiredness is a common symptom of the Varicose vein problem.
What I'm asking is if anyone has any experience with this?
I'm tired of my legs aching all the time, at least the Japanese medical insurance now seems to cover part of the cost of this procedure, when I first went to see the doctor they did not cover any of the costs of the visit.
His website is here....
http://www.tokyo-veinclinic.com/
All in Japanese but you can google translate it and you get a good idea about the procedures etc.
If anyone has any experience, I'd really appreciate some comments.
Cheers!
A bit of a back story, a few years ago I stared to get bad sores on my lower legs that would NOT heal, I went to a large University Hospital and got treated by the Dermatology Department for two years, all they did was put goo on my legs and bandages, they never did figure out what my problem was, utterly useless. I was hospitalized twice with these ulcers some of which took six months to heal. I was talking to some friends on a woodworking forum about this and one guy piped up and said that he had a similar thing and started to wear the compression socks and the problem went away. I found a Vein Doctor up in Ikebukuro who did an untra sound and told me that my problem was an enlarged Saphenous Vein in my groin area. He recommended that I start wearing the pressure socks and in two weeks my ulcers were healed. At the time he mentioned a laser surgery that could be done on an out patient basis that would effectively cure the problem, I think it is called EVLT which looks really common outside of Japan, but no so much here in Japan, where they still mostly do the vein stripping, which is a much more invasive procedure.
The reason I'm looking at this is train as much as I can, ride as hard as I can, or take some days off, etc no matter what I do my legs ache all the time. I still have the power to get up the hills pulling a trailer full of beer but I know that tonight when I sit down for a while my legs will just simply ache, tomorrow when I wake up and get out of bed, the first few steps I take, my legs will ache. I know about pain after a hard ride, but I'm not riding that hard, and I never seem to recover. From my reading on the web, this aching legs, heavy legs and tiredness is a common symptom of the Varicose vein problem.
What I'm asking is if anyone has any experience with this?
I'm tired of my legs aching all the time, at least the Japanese medical insurance now seems to cover part of the cost of this procedure, when I first went to see the doctor they did not cover any of the costs of the visit.
His website is here....
http://www.tokyo-veinclinic.com/
All in Japanese but you can google translate it and you get a good idea about the procedures etc.
If anyone has any experience, I'd really appreciate some comments.
Cheers!