Patient Question:Disease:Varicose veins Description:My dad has had varicose veins in his lower extremities for many years, and recently it has been a little painful to walk, so he went to get a film. Help wanted:Please ask the doctor if dad’s condition is serious and if he must have surgery? Hospital Department Visited:Guangdong Zhongshan Boai Hospital Cardiovascular Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dongzhimen Hospital Peripheral Vascular Surgery Department Ju Shang Reply:Must be operated Suggestion: Click here to refer to my article “Which varicose veins need surgical treatment? Patient question: Is it difficult to operate on my dad who is 70 years old? How long will it take to fully recover after surgery? Response from Ju Shang, Department of Peripheral Vascular Surgery, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine: I understand your feelings, which is why you have been dragging your feet not to treat the varicose veins when there are no complications (pain, dermatitis), but now that you are older and face having to do surgery, you are torn. 1. 70 years old is the middle age among our surgically treated varicose vein patients, not young but not very old either. (Because a lot of people are young and dragged not to cure, old and no way to cure) 2, I wrote clearly in the article: most varicose veins do not need to do surgery, but but but there are danger signs in the text, it must be done, because because but there are danger signs, then it means: for this patient, just through ordinary conservative treatment, human beings have been unable to stop varicose veins continue to development, and even to the development of thrombosis, ulcers and other complications, must be surgical intervention as soon as possible. 3. The difficulty of surgery is not related to age, but older age does increase the risk of surgery. According to our current experience, we have treated more than 2000 cases with my current surgical method since 2006, and there have been no serious surgical complications, such as deep vein thrombosis. 4. Bed rest is required on the day of surgery, and bed activity is required the day after surgery, with a hospital stay of 7-8 days and a total recovery period of about 3 weeks (4 weeks in the elderly)