Wait and See

To be honest, I’m not sure about the sclerotherapy. But for those of you who are interested, here’s what happened:

The technician was really nice, and explained what she was going to do. She said I could watch if I wanted, but I don’t really like needles. So I declined.

I had taken a couple of Tylenol about an hour beforehand, and I listened to my iPod during. The procedure really didn’t hurt very much. Once in a while, I had a feeling like I was being stung by a bee, but overall it was pretty painless.

After the procedure was over (it took about 45 minutes), I was supposed to wear some compression panty hose for at least 24 hours. The clinic doesn’t supply them, but gave instructions on what to get beforehand. So before my appointment, I went to Nordstrom and bought what I thought was the correct size based on my height and weight. In fact, according to the chart, I was on the low side of XL. I could have weighed 10 lbs more and been 2 inches taller and still been an XL. So I figured I had plenty of room for error.

Well, I could barely get them up past my knees, and I struggled so hard to pull them up that I put a big rip in the butt. I finally got the crotch up to within about 3 inches of where it should have been, but as I walked around, it kept slipping down. And my muffin top was pushed out over the top. I felt like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. lol

This was definitely the worst part of the whole experience. When I got home, I thought, No way can I wear these to work tomorrow! So I took those suckers off and cut off the panty part and just wore them as stockings yesterday and today. This seemed to work okay, but the whole compression pantyhose experience sucked. I hate even regular old pantyhose, and these were "bad pantyhose" multiplied exponentially.

Now, 2 days later, I have an ankle that looks like crap. The technician said the veins would look worse before they look better, and the part about looking worse is definitely true. But I’m supposed to give it at 4-6 weeks before I make a final judgment on the results. So I’m optimistic that it will improve as everything heals.

Tomorrow is my day off, which I'm looking forward to. Yeah, baby!