does the vein in your arms roll
Join Date: Nov 2001. Rolling veins can be anywhere in the body, and are generally veins that are not as thoroughly anchored to the surrounding subcutaneous tissue. To really understand what it means, it helps to know how a blood draw or catheter placement on a non-rolly vein goes.You prep your site, position your needle, and push through the skin and then the wall of the vein. always warn a phlebotomist that I've got rolling veins, so they can cut out the Chase the Vein portion of the proceedings and go straight to the special tricks for rolling veins. Really, that simple step can save you a whole lot of poking, prodding, and digging around.