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Hi! I am new to this site (not MS - I have been RR for almost 20 yrs) and am hoping for a bit of help...I am scheduled to go for CCSVI surgery in November with Dr. Mandato, but I am curious when I read about people whose veins 're-stenose'. If that is a possibility, even a slim one, why don't they use stents for every procedure? I do understand blood clot risks, etc., but the benefits seems to outweigh having to redo the surgery...?

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northerngirl9 wrote:Hi! I am new to this site (not MS - I have been RR for almost 20 yrs) and am hoping for a bit of help...I am scheduled to go for CCSVI surgery in November with Dr. Mandato, but I am curious when I read about people whose veins 're-stenose'. If that is a possibility, even a slim one, why don't they use stents for every procedure? I do understand blood clot risks, etc., but the benefits seems to outweigh having to redo the surgery...?

Hi northerngirl, and welcome!

If you want to find information about CCSVI - more information that you can possibly even read before November - please check out this link to the CCSVI Forum here at TIMS - entirely devoted to CCSVI:

http://www.thisisms.com/forum/chronic-c ... ccsvi-f40/

There are several general information threads to read, but you can also post specific questions and should get much more response than here in the Introductions Forum.

Good luck!

P.S. I just checked and there are now 5,523 threads (or topics) in the CCSVI forum.

Opening up the veins in the body can only be a good thing but there are risk to any medical procedure. THere have been studies done concerning this procedure. Diet is also a way of opening up the arteries in the body. Dr. Swank has an excellent diet which addresses this problem.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 10380.html

http://www.franksherwood.com/tnms.htm

Thanks everyone - for your thoughts, links and support! I really appreciate it!