AIBU to be sad that I need to ear medical stockings at 30?

[Flyingfish2019]

... and I am not overweight and enjoy sports. It is just bad genes and having four children i guess.
Gp has suggested I should wear them from now on and I am only 30. I think they are so ugly. I prefer dresses and skirts to trousers and wonder if I can keep dressing like this because those stockings look so ugly.
I often wear tights but natural looking ones. Cannot find medical stockings that match the colour of my skin and am very unhappy. Has someone been there?

I've got one or two potential varicose veins - one just behind my left knee and it's hardly anything but sometimes I can just feel it twinging and that's bad enough, proper full on veins must be awful.

I do remember a series called Grown Your Own Drugs (was an entirely different programme to what I was thinking (not really ha ha!!!)) and they had a woman with really bad varicose veins in her legs.

They made their own ointment and she had great, great results from it - and no steroids or anything like that - all natural ingredients. Might be worth a try as I remember the woman had some really quite significant improvements. It looks like a two-step process, see recipe below:

HORSE CHESTNUT TINCTURE - STEP 1
20 conkers
500 ml vodka (do not drink!!!)

1. Blend the conkers and vodka in a liquidizer until smooth.
2. Place in a sterilized bottle and keep in a cool dark place for 10 days to 1 month, shaking every day or so. Strain before using.

You don't drink or apply this tincture, you're creating the active ingredient for use in your ointment.

HORSE CHESTNUT GEL FOR VARICOSE VEINS - STEP 2
3 sachets vegetable gelatine
150 ml water
150 ml Horse Chestnut Tincture
5 drops lavender oil

1. Add the vegetable gelatine to 150 ml cold water in a pan and whisk until dissolved. Heat for about 2 minutes, whisking constantly. As the mix starts to thicken, slowly pour in the Horse Chestnut Tincture a little at a time. Add the lavender oil.
2. Pour into a 250 ml sterilized bottle.

USE: Try a 24-hour patch test before using (horse chestnut can irritate). Apply to affectedareas twice daily, or as often as required. STORAGE The gel keeps for 3 months in the refrigerator.

I even provide for you the video of how to do it, the woman who tested it and the results etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNS1B5VFFVs

Good luck OP!! Looks like there are some compression tights that are rather attractive www.compressionsockshop.co.uk/product/medical-compression-socks-kl-2-at-pantyhose-black-w-toe-1498/?gclid=CjwKCAjwkcblBRB_EiwAFmfyywUwahsgJllM4yLfTA6zP3bric7HL9trIJrrYU3F9E9xzWCREQN43xoC4fcQAvD_BwE, not sure if they're the right compression level for your needs but sure you can check.

Do hope things improve OP .

Thanks so much everybody.

I will definetly try this @DoinItfortheKids.

No dh told me I should wear the stockings. He has been really lovely. It’s me. I think they are ugly.

And it's a crap time of year as well for tights (of any kind isn't it)!

Mind you, it's right back to wet and windy weather here so I'm back in my tights. Managed one day with bare legs, was freezing cold in a freezing cold overly air conditioned office all day and got two massive blisters after wearing a pair of shoes (not my trusty winter leather ankle boots!) for just 1 hour!

I hope you can find some compression tights that are a little less on the ugly side and that some type of treatment of some sort helps a bit, I do feel for you.