I have a whopping varicose vein in my left leg that I got while I was preggers.

Sometimes it does some wildly creative pains/acheing.

My doc is not all that interested in me getting it fixed (says it's not really bad enough) but I'm thinking it needs to go. I work on my feet all day. I have compression stockings to wear when I fly or go on long drives because it has a history of throwing clots.

Mine has hurt less as I've started riding more.

I like the idea of cautery rather than vein stripping. I'll have to do some serious looking into that.