Women with varicose veins may also have difficulty wearing tight clothing. Varicose veins usually become visible during pregnancy because pregnant women need to. Varicose veins tend to improve typically 6 to 12 weeks after you give birth. The key is to stay active. Varicose veins may respond to simple lifestyle changes in how your move and hold your body. Refresh your body with a few stretches or small exercise movements to keep things moving with your circulatory system.
Learn how to sit in a healthy way without crossing your legs and remembering to keep your legs elevated while nursing or resting. You can also invest in compression garments. Compression garments provide support for your legs by helping your blood travel back toward the heart instead of remaining in your legs. Many veins can be minimized or eliminated using treatment methods. If varicose veins persist or worsen, your healthcare provider might recommend one of the following treatments:.
Endovenous ablation is a minimally invasive procedure that uses radiofrequency waves to treat varicose veins. Ambulatory phlebectomy is performed with a local anesthetic so you will feel no pain.
This process involves making tiny cuts near varicosed veins so they can be removed in pieces through those openings. Afterward, compression stockings should be worn for one week to reduce swelling.
Give The Vein Centre a call today at ! There are three kinds of compression stockings:. Put on the stockings before you get out of bed in the morning while you're still lying down and keep them on all day to prevent blood from pooling in your legs. You may have heard advice that sleeping on your left side can help prevent varicose veins. The theory goes that because the inferior vena cava is on the right side of your body, lying on your left side takes the weight of your uterus off the vein, relieving the pressure on the veins in your legs and feet.
Although providers sometimes recommend it anyway, there's no proof to support the claim that sleeping this way prevents varicose veins.
Varicose veins may itch or hurt, and they can be unsightly, but they're generally harmless in the short term. Treatment, if needed, can usually be postponed until after you have your baby. However, a small percentage of people who have varicose veins develop small blood clots near the skin's surface superficial venous thrombosis.
When this kind of clot develops, the vein may feel hard and cord-like, and the area around it may become red, hot, tender, or painful. Call your doctor or midwife if you think you have one of these clots because they can be serious. During pregnancy, they can be treated with warm compresses and will usually subside in a few days or weeks. Occasionally the area surrounding a clot becomes infected. You may develop a fever or chills in that case, and you'll need to be treated promptly with antibiotics.
In rare cases, superficial venous thrombosis can progress to deep vein thrombosis DVT , a more serious condition in which a clot develops in deep veins, usually in the legs, and could become inflamed or travel to the lungs and be life-threatening. Pregnancy makes DVT more likely whether or not you have varicose veins, but DVT isn't common: Your chance of developing it — either during pregnancy or in the weeks after you give birth — is about 1 in 1, Women with blood clotting disorders, obesity, multiple gestation or who are on prolonged bedrest have a higher risk.
If you develop DVT, you may have no symptoms, or you may have sudden, painful swelling in your ankle , leg, and thigh. It may hurt more when your foot is flexed or when you're standing, and you may have a slight fever as well.
If you notice any of these symptoms, call your provider immediately. You may need to have an ultrasound exam of the affected area. And if you do have one of these clots, you'll need to be hospitalized and treated with blood-thinning medication. Left untreated, the clot could break away and travel to the lungs, resulting in a life-threatening condition called a pulmonary embolism.
Signs of a pulmonary embolism include shortness of breath, painful breathing, a cough or coughing up blood , a panicky feeling, and a rapid heartbeat.
If you have any of these symptoms, call After you give birth, it's a good idea to continue to wear compression stockings, exercise regularly, don't sit or stand for long periods of time, and elevate your legs whenever possible. Varicose veins often improve within three to four months after giving birth, though sometimes it takes even longer — and sometimes they don't improve much at all.
This is more likely if you've had multiple pregnancies. If your varicose veins persist and become too uncomfortable to live with, or even if you're just unhappy with how they look, ask your provider to refer you to a specialist to find out about other treatment options. BabyCenter's editorial team is committed to providing the most helpful and trustworthy pregnancy and parenting information in the world. When creating and updating content, we rely on credible sources: respected health organizations, professional groups of doctors and other experts, and published studies in peer-reviewed journals.
We believe you should always know the source of the information you're seeing. Learn more about our editorial and medical review policies. Deep vein thrombosis. American Academy of Family Physicians. FAQ Preventing deep vein thrombosis. And there are ways to ease the discomfort. Healthy leg veins have one-way valves to help the blood flow back to the heart. When you walk, your calf muscles pump the blood up towards your heart, and the valves stop it falling back.
Varicose veins develop when these one-way valves don't work properly. This causes the blood to pool in the veins, which stretches the vein walls and causes the veins to swell, twist and bulge. If they become large enough, you can see them under your skin. Varicose veins mainly develop in the legs. However, you can also get them in the vulva at the vaginal opening or rectum.
Varicose veins of the rectum are also known as haemorrhoids. Varicose veins can cause fairly bad aches and pains in your legs. Your legs might feel heavy or restless, and they might throb, burn or cramp. Some women find varicose veins give them no problems, but that's not common. You'll probably find that any symptoms you have are worse later in the day since you've been standing for longer.
By the next morning, you'll usually feel better because you've been lying down and the pressure on your veins has eased. Walking or swimming help your circulation generally and are beneficial while pregnant. Specific exercises like calf raises and walking on the spot are good for helping blood flow in the legs. There's no sure way to prevent varicose veins when you're pregnant. However, they might be less likely to develop if you:.
If you do develop varicose veins, they will probably go away without treatment by the time your baby is 3 to 4 months old. But for some women, this can take up to a year. In the meantime, you could try wearing compression stockings or elevating your legs when the veins are uncomfortable. There are no medications or other treatments that have been shown to help short of surgery. Talk to your doctor or midwife if you are worried about varicose veins.
They can give you more information and help you find the best way to relieve any symptoms you're experiencing. Stretch marks are thin pink or purple lines on the surface of the skin. You'll usually see them pop up on your stomach as your pregnancy progresses since they are formed when the skin stretches. Varicose veins are different because it is the veins that are affected, not the skin. Learn more here about the development and quality assurance of healthdirect content.
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