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Welcome Snoopy88 @mandyh528, Two weeks seems like you are still pretty early in the healing and recovery for your vein ablation surgery. I haven't had vein ablation surgery but I also wear compression socks for lymphedema in both legs and take a diuretic as one of my heart medications. It sounds like you elevate your legs at home to help with the swelling which is good. Another thing that I do is raise the foot of my bed a little which helps with reducing the swelling overnight. One way you can easily do that is to add a folded blanket underneath the mattress at the foot of the bed to raise it a little.

Have you discussed the symptoms with your surgeon or care team to see if they may have some suggestions to help with the pain and swelling?

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@johnbishop I has an appointment today with the surgeon. He feels my foot swelling is not related to my veins and also he had me X-Ray that left foot. I am waiting on the results, however I do not believe I broke a bone or anything.

It does take up to 4 weeks to completely heal and also a year for the body to completely absorb the vaulty veins. Right now my body is creating new pathways for blood vessels and absorbing the vaulty veins they laser off.