Dear LPG, 

I know that more ladies will relate to what I want to address today although I do know that there are quite a few gentlemen who will also know exactly what I am talking about here.

I am now so well into my sixties that my seventies are not that far away, but it must have been about thirty years ago that I first discovered what almost looked like a little two-inch square road map at the back of my upper left calf.  There was not that much to see, although I could see it, and I have to say it did worry me a little at the time.  I suppose that men have the advantage of trousers, but when getting dressed in the mornings my tights hid it quite well, and I remember trying to ignore it because there were much more important things for me to worry about at the time.

I suppose I have been quite lucky because now, thirty plus years later, it has turned into a three-inch map although I know that many people get them and they have a habit of getting a lot bigger and more pronounced as time goes by.  Now I am older my skirts are a little longer and even in the summer I feel that I have learned how to keep my little roadmap patch conveniently hidden.

I am lucky because mine did not turn into a full-scale case of varicose veins, but I also know that it could have and does for many women as well as men, so I count myself lucky that I did nothing and nothing much happened to me.

I was Googling one day not so long ago and found some interesting information.  There are the medical injections and procedures that cure bad cases, but I found quite a lot of precautions that can be taken when the problem first makes an appearance, that may help and wondered if they might be of interest to LPG readers.

I have asked LPG to add some links to the end of my message.

HL, Lee

HL offers some useful information most of which is presented in video form…

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But LPG also found some related sites and suggests that special attention is paid to the recommendations at the bottom of the second offering below…

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