Gosh me too! To me the whole thing is great because I gave up on autoimmune approaches in 03 because of my personal experience--great inflammation control and no relapses but progression from jogging to cane anyway over 6 years. I agree completely that it is possible that we will need both an immune suppressive and a vascular surgery, or maybe that SOME will need both and others will not.But I do hope that doctors like Dr Sclafani are released to perform the procedure so they can also contribute all their amazing brains to this whole problem. Anecdotal reports of "I got better" or "I got worse" will not convince any neuros. Trials and studies are what Dr Zamboni has asked for, so we can read new papers in the coming year detailing the statistics in much the same way Dr Zamboni did. Or papers that will discuss the issues of the procedures and design of new stents.
If the trigger for autoimmunity is venous stenosis and it is a situation like ADEM which is an autoimmune demyelinating disease it could be possible that once the trigger is gone it will resolve over a few months as the white blood cells are replaced and the body is not trying to make new ones because damage is not happening any longer.
No one knows the answer to that at this time. This is preliminary for certain. There are many unknowns. No one should think otherwise.
But it is still the best thing to come along for a long time..........
even if it is really late for me