What does it mean when your veins are protruding in your hands and you feel swelling in your hands?

To link : Both your complaints, swelling&protruding veins i can think of only one single condition: pressure on the root of draining veins. Since ur speaking in plural ( veins and hands) this basically is an anatomic impossibility as your face should be swollen and blue too. If just one hand, i would check ur rm pit or look for a condition called thoracic outlet syndrome. C ur dr.