You lie down on a couch with head up slightly the skin over your leg is cleaned with antiseptic solution and sterile drapes placed over your leg. A small injection of local anaesthesia will be given to numb the skin over th einside of your knee. A small sheath ( thin walled plastic tube ) is inserted into the vein to be destroyed usually just below the knee. Using an ultrasound image to guide the instruments the doctor then places a laser fibre through the sheath and up to the vein in the groin. Local anaesthetic solution is then carefully injected around the vein along its whole length. The power is then turned on and the fibre slowly withdrawn. Once the length of the vein has been treated the sheath is withdrawn, a compression stocking will be applied and after a cup of tea you are allowed to leave, take a fifteen minute walk and get back to normal activities. You will have to keep your stocking on for 2 weeks in total. You may take a bath after 3 days and then every day. Let us know if you want to order more than one stocking per leg.