Varicose Vein Treatment for Pompton Lakes, NJ

The Turnpikes, then Jacksonville Road

Leaving Pompton Lakes, follow the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike and then the Newark-Pompton Turnpike to Jacksonville Road, which carries on into Towaco. Montville Pain & Veins is at 624 Main Road, Suite 2B, roughly nine miles from the middle of the borough and close to fifteen minutes away without traffic. Parking is on site.

The vein you see is not the one that failed

A varicose vein is a stretched vein. Blood that ought to be climbing toward the heart slips back through a valve that no longer shuts, pools, and swells the wall until it shows as a raised cord on the calf or inner thigh. The valve that started it usually sits higher up, often in the great or small saphenous vein, where nothing is visible from outside. That is why every plan here begins with a duplex ultrasound taken while you stand — and why the honest answer after it is sometimes that nothing needs treating at all.

Three tools, matched to the shape of the vein

Once the scan has shown which segments leak, the job is to close them, and the shape of each vein picks the method:

• A long, fairly straight trunk vein — radiofrequency ablation. A thin catheter enters through one needle puncture and seals the vein from inside with controlled heat, a segment at a time. Allow about an hour.
• A vein that bends, branches or runs very close to the skin — Varithena. The microfoam is injected rather than threaded, so it follows curves a catheter cannot, and you can watch it fill the vein on the ultrasound screen. Under an hour.
• Small surface branches still showing afterwards — sclerotherapy, usually at a later visit.

One leg can need all three, each on a different vein. You hear the plan, and the reason behind each part of it, before anything is booked.

While the paperwork is done

Most insurers want reflux documented on the scan, and symptoms recorded, before they approve treatment; many also ask for a spell in compression stockings first. Stockings ease the ache while they are on, but they do not mend a valve. We find out exactly what your plan requires before scheduling, so no step has to be repeated — see insurance and fees.

Pompton Lakes patients ask

Does radiofrequency ablation hurt? What most people feel is the numbing being laid along the vein first, as a run of small stings. The heating itself tends to register as warmth or pressure. A tight, achy feeling along the treated vein for a week or two is normal and settles.

Why would I have foam rather than the catheter? Mostly because of shape. A catheter needs a reasonably straight run to travel along; foam goes wherever the vein goes.

What does the leg feel like afterwards? Usually lighter before it looks any different. Heaviness eases as soon as the vein is shut, because the pressure drops straight away, while bruising and the change in appearance take a few weeks.

More about varicose veins and venous reflux, or the same care for neighbouring Pequannock Township and Riverdale.