My husband has had a varicose vein in his leg for a while. Despite nagging from me he's just ignored it. He's now developed ulcers on his ankle.
I dragged him to the Drs last week, he was referred straight to the nurses for a dressing.
The dressing was changed today, it was pretty foul. Anyway, he has had bloods taken for testing and we see the GP for results next week and to discuss a referral to a vascular surgeon.
In the meantime he'll be seeing the nurses every Monday for a dressing change, and I'll be doing a dressing change at home every Thursday.
His mum had dreadful varicose veins and we worked out that she was younger than he is now when she first had her veins stripped - we think it's the varicose veins that are causing the leg ulcers.
I just wondered whether this had happened to anyone else.
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Varicose veins/ulcers, advice please.
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crispandfruity · 03/11/2014 22:18
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