One thing that the medical community has not come to realize yet is that many RLS cases can be treated and eliminated by just treating a person's vein issues. When you were pregnant, the hormones that came along with pregnancy magnified and accelerated the development of your vein issues. You are wise to realize that leaving your vein issues untreated, and to get pregnant again, will make your second pregnancy even worse than your first from a RLS and potentially pain standpoint. Now, whether a bilateral ablation will prevent your symptoms from coming back during a second pregnancy will depend on how much vein disease you have. Vein disease is an inherited disorder. It does not just affect one or two veins. Getting an ablation procedure only allows you to address 1-2 feet of abnormal vein structure out of potentially 50 yards of vein disease within each leg. If you really want to guarantee that you will be feeling good from a vein standpoint when pregnant, you really need to address all 50 yards. This optimizes the venous circulation in your legs and significantly decreases the likelihood of those pregnancy symptoms ever coming back.

Published on Jul 11, 2012

Greater saphenous vein ablation prior to pregnancy should help with leg pain and swelling symptoms.

Published on Jul 11, 2012

I always recommend treating symptomatic reflux before a pregnancy to help to alleviate all the potential complications associated with varicose veins during pregnancy. If you had thrombophlebitis with your first pregnancy, the chances of developing this with a second pregnancy is much higher.

Published on Jul 11, 2012