Hayley’s experience with MOCA (Clarivein®):
After treatment (same day): It felt slightly uncomfortable after treatment when walking as if I didn’t want to put too much pressure on it, no dizziness or anything like that. Went for the 10 minute walk fine kind of felt like a rubber band stretching and shortening again – not painful though. I lay on the couch for the rest of the afternoon by 5:00pm it started to get quite sore an aching kind of pain. Sore once I put pressure on and off (like a toothache – when you clench down the pain goes away but comes back worse when you relieve it). Because of this I ended up with a wee bit of a limp around the house. 5:30pm I decided to take Nurofen and felt better once it kicked in, went to bed feeling fine a little sore around the insertion point below my knee but slept no qualms.
Friday: Woke up as though nothing really happened, took the day off work as precaution as I do tend to stand often. I stayed in bed till mid-morning, only feeling a dull ache. I went out for lunch, walked freely still felt achy but not painful. After sometime of sitting my leg felt tired went home to rest before dinner and a movie. Sitting upright again for a period of time was uncomfortable and caused slight throbbing, felt like I should of had it elevated but again not painful.
Saturday: Same sort of feeling today, took the morning easy and went out for shopping during the day, so a bit of walking around. Felt the same kind of ache totally bearable though. Finding showering with the stocking the most frustrating thing as glad-wrapping or blow drying takes some time but worth it in the grand scheme of things. I pulled down the stocking (but didn’t take it entirely off) as I wanted to see what was happening under there, there is some bruising around the insertion point leading towards the side of my knee, some by where I think the probe got stuck and also up at where the junction of the vein would be or where the Clarivein treatment started.
Monday: First day back at work today, still the same feeling getting little spasms and, tingling and that stretching rubber band feeling. Sitting at my desk seemed to make it sore as opposed to standing. My leg felt quite tired by the end of the day, glad to be home and have it elevated.
Wednesday: Starting to feel more normal and probably like I could train again but not sure what intensity, have stayed away from any form of training other than walking. Took stocking off for a shower, saw my affected area (pooling) was still there, felt a little disappointed as you expect it to be gone straight away unfortunately it doesn’t happen like that. Dr Fris did say treatment is to the trunk of the vein and naturally gravity should take care of the lower area he also had said they may have to inject the lower leg upon follow up, so not to worry. My leg hairs are looking pretty gross maybe I shouldn’t have shaved so close to treatment as the stockings restrict their growth, not sure how that affects treatment as far as the injections go.