Our Vein Dr. in Texas Explains the Vein Treatment Process

Step 1: Initial Consultation

When you schedule an appointment at our vein treatment center in Houston, you can also request free insurance verification. Our insurance concierge will contact your insurance providers on your behalf and work out the terms and conditions of your coverage ahead of your appointment. This allows us to provide a complete overview of your treatment costs, with and without insurance coverage, before your procedure. This goes along with our “no surprise billing” policy stipulating that all patients must know what their vein treatments will cost.

When you appear for your appointment, you’ll be asked to fill a form where you’ll have to reveal your medical history, symptoms, and a few other details. During your initial consultation, the vein doctor will examine your leg veins to determine if you have the signs of chronic venous insufficiency. They’ll also ask if you have the symptoms of vein disease, such as leg heaviness, frequent leg cramps, restless leg syndrome, and leg pain. You should answer all the questions with complete accuracy because it will help them diagnose vein disease.

Step 2: Ultrasound Diagnosis

Chronic venous insufficiency is a medical condition wherein your vein valves collapse. In healthy veins, these valves act as one-way doors to ensure one-way blood circulation towards the heart against the force of gravity. When your vein valves collapse, blood flows backward and accumulates in your leg veins, eventually leading to the symptoms of vein disease, including spider veins and varicose veins.

Our vein doctors perform comprehensive ultrasound diagnostic tests, such as duplex ultrasound, to determine if you have chronic venous insufficiency. During the ultrasound diagnostic test, the vein doctor glides the ultrasound applicator against your legs. The ultrasound energy visualizes the blood flow in your leg veins on a computer screen, confirming if you have chronic venous insufficiency.

Step 3: Treatment Plan

Our vein doctors curate comprehensive and personalized vein treatment plans based on your diagnosis. If you have chronic venous insufficiency, the vein doctor will recommend treatments that address the root cause before removing the superficial varicose veins and spider veins. Your vein treatment plan is also based on other factors, such as your symptoms, the location and size of your veins, your medical history, the risk of allergies, and your insurance coverage options.

The spider vein and varicose vein treatment center in Texas follows a strict protocol for complete transparency. As such, our vein doctors walk you through every step of your vein treatment process, highlighting the pros and cons of all your treatment options. We describe all available vein treatments, giving you all the information necessary to make an informed choice. Our personalized vein treatment plans ensure optimal, consistent, and long-lasting results.

Step 4: Primary Treatment

Your vein treatment starts with the primary treatment for chronic venous insufficiency, the root cause of your vein problems. Radiofrequency ablation, endovenous laser ablation, and venaseal are some of the best minimally invasive vein treatments available. These procedures use numerous techniques to destroy the diseased saphenous vein responsible for your vein problems. Neutralizing the diseased vein allows the accumulated blood to reroute into healthier leg veins.

Endovenous radiofrequency ablation and endovenous laser ablation involve destroying the diseased saphenous vein using thermal or laser energy. The vein doctor makes a small incision on the skin’s surface to insert a catheter into the diseased vein. The catheter generates thermal or laser energy to collapse the diseased vein. VenaSeal involves injecting a medical-grade adhesive into the diseased vein to seal its walls shut, facilitating its eventual absorption.

Step 5: Cosmetic Treatment

Sclerotherapy is the ideal minimally invasive treatment for spider veins. After your primary vein treatment, the vein doctor injects a medicine called sclerosant into all of your spider veins — one injection per spider vein. The sclerosant solution fuses the spider veins’ walls, turning them into hardened scar tissues eventually absorbed by the body.

Ambulatory phlebectomy is the ideal minimally invasive treatment for superficial varicose veins. After your primary vein treatment, the vein doctor makes small incisions on the skin’s surface to extract the varicose veins. The incision marks eventually heal into scars that fade away from the skin’s surface.

Step 6: Recovery & Aftercare

After your vein treatments, the vein doctor provides a list of aftercare guidelines and recommendations. You must wear compression stockings for a few days, exercise regularly, and avoid strenuous workouts. Other than that, you can resume most of your daily activities immediately — there’s no social or professional downtime.