Would love to hear positive experiences of Iliac vein stenting, especially people who already had coils prior to stenting.
I (25F) am scheduled for my intravascular ultrasound this Thursday and while I am under anesthesia, they will be stenting me if they find severe enough compression. Back in November 2025 I had several coils placed on both my left and right gonodal/ovarian veins for very severe pelvic veinous insuffiency/PCS. I’ve had so many surgeries that the recovery honestly wasn’t that bad and my IR doctor says I should expect very similar recovery as the coils. They weren’t able to rule out iliac vein compression during my embolization and can see at least partial compression on my CTs so I really won’t know any results until I wake up. I’ve felt pretty confident with my decision and I whole heartedly trust my Dr as I know she wouldn’t stent me if I didn’t need it or if she thought I couldn’t tolerate it. Still, I’ve seen the posts and videos where people have had a bad experience post stent (like pain 1 year later) and it has me feeling really anxious last minute. I’d love to hear from people who were already coiled for PCS prior to their stent because I’m wondering if that could play a role in recovery.
Also would love to know if there’s anything special that really helped with recovery. I already have heating pads, tens machines, pregnancy pillow, gas pills, pills incase of constipation, etc but would love to hear if there’s anything else out of the box that helped you.
Thank you so much!!!