DAVF embolization, what has everyone experienced during recovery?

[DickD]

Taco,

Absolutely I felt weird! See a couple of earlier posts in this thread.

I’d say it took me months to get past the weird head feeling. For me, I think I had to accept that I was well (and not to worry about the weirdness) and I just had to relax and put it out of my mind.

My personal theory is that your artery has been leaking blood into your vein for a long time. The doc has now finally glued up the hole and suddenly you’ve got the “right” pressure further along that leaky artery than you’ve had for ages and ages (if ever).

@DickD

My dad went to the dentist some years ago and the dentist told him, either cough up several thousand pounds to get his teeth fixed properly, or take the lot out. Dad has had a “plate” since a motorbike accident as a young man, so opted for “all out” and some new plastic choppers. The funny thing was that when he had them fitted (a) he looked like Wallace out of Wallace & Gromit and (b) they were “too tall” – he felt as though there was too much plastic in his mouth: his jaw was being held open! Rather than pay the dentist to make a shorter set of teeth, he had a go at them with a file. Much cheaper.

When he told the dentist, or had a review of how he was getting on with them, the dentist laughed. “Actually, they were the right height but you’ve got used to a plate that was made decades ago and has worn down significantly over time, so the teeth in your old plate were much too short!”

I think it is the same with having the pressures in your brain rearranged. We’ve got so used to low pressure here and higher pressure there that to suddenly swap them feels completely weird.

Best wishes,

Richard