Great Saphenous Vein Issues?

both Lyme and Bart damage the cells that line our blood vessels - the endothelial cells - so i would say ys most likley.

although any driver of oxidative stress can cause damage to the circulatory system - eg diet and lifestyle factors.

herbs that protect these cells may be of use - in particular
Salvia Militorhiza / red sage root is specific for this as is Japanese Knotweed.

also, anti-oxidant support may help - as the damage to these cells is usually due to oxidative stress
so things like vitamin C, vitamin E, and CoQ10, NAC, alpha-lipoic acid, Omega -3's

UAZip05-I remember talking to you about this (Sept., I guess it was). I certainly had bulging veins around my feet/ankles, but like I mentioned to you it turned out to be several blood clots in the Great Saphenous vein of my upper thigh (2 in my left leg, and 1 in my right). Whether or not that was caused by Babesia, or a major die-off from abx treating of Babesia & Borrelia--is something that I (and my Lyme PA) can only speculate on. That blood clotting was discovered (after having swollen feet & ankles for months) when they did a thorough ultrasound of both arteries & veins, from my groin to my feet. They put me immediately on a blood thinner (Eliquis-which is new and expensive, but less troublesome than some of the older blood-thinners). All 3 of those clots dissolved (eventually, over about 3 months), I believe through the use of that blood-thinner combined with regular exercise.

Did your vascular doc ever do a THOROUGH ultrasound (from your feet to your groin)? The vascular doc I'm seeing also did a "Venigram" of my groin & lower abdomenal veins. Very unpleasant procedure, with them inserting catheters through several different veins on both sides, but it showed a couple more sluggish or narrowed veins in the groin/abdomen (which they've addressed in a couple more procedures, in the past couple of months--including a stent put in to my "Common Iliac Vein"). Did you ever get a second opinion--or a second vascular doc to look at your case?

I hardly even talked to them about Lyme, Borrelia, or Babesia . . . because the vascular specialists know next to nothing about it (or other infectious diseases). Babesia, it seems, just out of common sense and the fact that it infects red blood cells, intracellularly, would seem a possible culprit in causing the blood clots I've had.

But the truth is, blood clots in the larger veins of the legs (like the Great Saphenous), called DVT (deep-vein thrombosis) can be REAL serious and have to be treated as such. I knew, that when that was diagnosed--that there's always the possibility of a clot dislodging and landing in the lungs (which can be fatal). So it's nothing to fool with, if you could in fact have some clotting in the leg veins.

Hope some of this helps.

Post Edited (BlueRidgeDave) : 11/30/2020 11:45:24 PM (GMT-7)