Varicose Veins

I developed varicose veins during my third pregnancy, a few years later I had an op to strip them in one leg, now I have got
a leg ulcer, had one on each ankle, quite small but they really stung...nurse measured my legs for compression stockings. I couldn't even get them on they were so tight. I bought a gadget called a medi butler, that didn't help, they were too tight. I ended up buying a larger size, still have to use the medi butler, but it is a bit better, she told me the compression stockings help the blood to flow better, maybe if I had them sooner, the ulcers wouldn't have happened,