Years ago I had varicose veins, by the time I was in my late 30s. At age 41 I started jogging because of strokes being prevalent in the women in my family - I had no idea that it would help my varicose veins. I have continued jogging/walking, and sometimes using a rebounder (similar to a mini-tramp - the up and down movement helps strengthen the 'pump action' of the valves of your lymphatic system, which is one part of your body's 'vacuum cleaner' systems, and so directly and indirectly improves lots of other things, including circulation) alot and focusing on keeping my weight low, and overall good health habits, and my varicose veins have been gone away for several years.
I'm just mentioning this because I think many people think, as I did myself, that once you have varicose veins you can't heal them.
So, my suggestion is, it would be worth the effort (unless, of course, your husband's doctor feels that for some well-explained medical reason he cannot delay in having the treatment) to avoid the potential health risks, such as discussed in other posts here (and I suggest that you research this, yourself) of varicose vein treatment or surgery, to do everything else, possible, first, to at least see how much improvement he can attain; and keep the treatment as a last resort, since it will only be treating the existing vein problems, not helping the underlying processes that caused them, so it does not prevent new ones from occurring.
Improved circulation, and lymphatic system health, which comes from exercise, can improve, or, as I mentioned, possibly eliminate varicose veins. (Not to mention how taking action like described above will benefit his health, overall).
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