Years of steering the QE2 and other top liners in and out of the Solent in all conditions had taken its toll and the arteries to my leg had started to pack up. Happily the blockages have been bypassed and I can now manage most normal physical exercise. Any help you can give to promote research into the causes of vascular disease and its treatment would be gratefully received. Please help us make the British Vascular Foundation a success. Intermittent Claudication affects 1 in 20 of us as we get older.
Patients develop blockages in the arteries to their legs.
Enough blood can get to the muscles to keep them comfortable whilst resting but, as in Captain Robson's case, not enough when exercised. I had weeks of tests, weeks of worry, I even developed new clots and symptoms but, at the end of the day, expert vascular teams sorted my problem and now in my early thirties I am happily married, a successful county level sportswoman and teacher. Any help you can give to promote research into vascular disease and its treatment would be gratefully received. Deep Venous Thrombosis is still a formidable condition to treat. It attacks all ages, is potentially fatal and unless properly treated can result in permanently swollen legs complicated by leg ulcers.