Originally Posted by tidyteresa

I had my left top rib removed at the end of Feb so it has been almost 3 months since my surgery. One month after surgery I complained that my symptoms were still all there and getting worse so they did CT scan and told me that indeed there were problems with blood flow in that vein. I went into the cath lab and they ballooned the vein and sent me home. It was great for about 2 days and it all started in again

I got the feeling that they didn't really believe me that my pain and numbness was all that bad until I went into the clinic and my surgeon saw the extensive swelling in my arm and ordered another cath lab visit.

Yesterday was my procedure and I was specifically asked if they were going to do scraping of the vein since they told me earlier that a stent would not work in this area because of where it bends when my arm lifts up. Well when I woke up I was told they put in a stent. This better work this time!

Has anyone else had a stent put it their affected vein?