A blown vein is a vein that's mildly injured during a blood draw or IV placement. Symptoms include bruising, swelling and discomfort around your vein. While a blown vein isn't serious, it needs about 10 to 12 days to heal before your provider can use it again.
Usually, a vein blown heals with no complications, typically within 10 to 12 days. However, certain complications may necessitate further treatment. These complications include accumulation of pus, swelling, warmth, or fever at the wound site.
There is no specific treatment for a collapsed vein, however, diagnosis is important to understand any underlying issues and aim to prevent the future development of venous disease.
But permanently collapsed veins can't recover. Sometimes, the body forms new, tiny veins to help restore circulation in the area; however, these tiny veins are smaller and weaker than “normal” veins, and they cannot be used for future injections.
Collapsed veins become truly dangerous once they have suffered permanent damage, which is only likely to happen in the case of neglect over a long amount of time.
When your veins are damaged, the valves don't work properly, causing blood to flow backward and pool in your legs. Damaged veins can cause swelling, pain, and unsightly legs. They can severely impact your quality of life and put you at greater risk for developing dangerous blood clots.
These broken blood vessels may look like small red dots. Or they may be larger purple, blue or black patches. Usually, bleeding into the skin is minor and heals in about two weeks.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI) Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) happens when your leg veins become damaged and can't work as they should. Normally, valves in your leg veins keep blood flowing back up to your heart. But CVI damages those valves, causing blood to pool in your legs.
Your blown vein will heal in about 10 to 12 days.
To help your blown vein heal, you should rest the affected arm and avoid any strenuous activity. You may also want to apply cold packs to your arm at regular intervals to reduce swelling.
You may feel a sharp pain when the vein pops, and the area may continue to hurt for some time afterwards. Swelling: Swelling is another common sign of a popped vein. The area around the vein may become swollen and tender to the touch. Bruising: Bruising is another common sign of a popped vein.
Veins are the blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood (except the pulmonary vein) from other organs to the heart. The veins are inelastic- and thin-walled and have a large lumen. Hence, the veins can easily get collapsed when they are empty without blood.
Phlebectomy. During phlebectomy, damaged veins are removed through small punctures in the skin that don't typically require stitches. Your doctor injects a local anesthetic into the skin over the vein and then makes a tiny puncture. A thin metal hook in then inserted to pull the affected vein out of the body.
Most broken blood vessels heal within two weeks. Larger spots may take longer to go away. As the blood clears up, the color of the area may change, like a fading bruise.
An external rupture occurs when you have broken skin, and you will see a great deal of bleeding that might not seem able to stop. Some people will also feel a burning sensation in the burst vein and might feel dizzy or woozy due to blood loss.
If a varicose vein ruptures and the skin is broken, significant bleeding will occur. Since veins burst from excess pressure, the bleeding can be rapid and profuse. In this case, call 911 and seek medical attention immediately to prevent excessive blood loss.
At most, a damaged vein will only ever regain a portion of its previous blood-circulating capabilities. If vein damage is too extensive your body will abandon that vein altogether and rather than try and salvage the blood vessel it will create a new one by a process called angiogenesis.
Popped Vein in Hands
Symptoms include a bruise that develops quickly, swelling, and sometimes pain. Generally, a normal vein will clot fast. As well, normal vein clotting caused by a leak will prevent or limit the swelling. Generally popped a vein in the finger can be treated at home.
On rare occasions, a blown-out vein develops into a collapsed vein. Collapsed veins are blown-out veins that are caved in, which prevents blood flow. Most of the time, a collapsed vein will heal over time as well. But in some cases, they do not recover, which can cause problems with circulation.
Dehydration and collapsing veins
Your veins contain much of the fluids in your body, so if you haven't had much to drink the day of your draw, those little fluid filled vessels will not be as easy to access and are more likely to collapse flat when a needle is inserted.