Carolyn's Posts

My father had pain in his leg were the vein was harvested. He was told it has to do with the nerves awakening after having them cut to remove the vein. He was told to wear compression socks and this did help. I don’t recall any specific medication he took for this.

Hi Carolyn, I 8 weeks post op and I also had nerve stingers after surgery. They kicked in at night time only when I was laying down. I read the nerve sometimes is impacted during the surgery. I was considering acupunture, but then it eventually just corrected itself and I haven't had to do anything. Wishing the same for you.

In the early 1970's I worked as a cardiac technician in London, the catheterization was carried out weekly, in the Cath lab in the bowels of the victorian hospital, via the femoral artery, they all went well and I feel the only pain to patients was listing to the music on 8 track tapes the cardiologist bought in to play! I recently had mine done in 2017, terrified at the time as you can imagine and was amazed at the vast improvement in cardiac technology, and comfort, mine was via the Radial Artery in the wrist area on my right arm, You will be fine, you are in the hands of a highly trained team, with major advances in technology and drug threapy and they are carried out all over the world, at least you wont have to hear the awful music.