Residual AVM micro-bleed? Or do AVMs grow back? Or just nothing to worry about?

[DickD]

My experience with auras (which initially I described only as “visual effects”):

My Update - Dural AVF Embolization

Guys Thought it high time I gave an update on how I’m getting on. Had my embolisation on 3 April. Came out of hospital on 5 April but I have headaches, dizziness, pain on the outside of my head and some occasional visual “effects”. See also Explaining Catheter Embolisation The procedure was to embolise the DAVF in my right occipital and the doc also embolised the draining veins that are extracranial, plus unblocked my right transverse sinus. When I came round, apart from sore balls (I’m su…

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My Update - Dural AVF Embolization

Latest update… 10w post op… The “visual effects” recurred again just once following the angio, so I think that was driven by the catheter going in and upsetting something. I dont think I’ve had an “effect” for a couple of weeks now; and before the angio, hadn’t had any for perhaps 3 weeks. Hope this helps anyone reading up on how I got on. Richard

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My Update - Dural AVF Embolization

… update further… I’ve been reading “Migraine” by the late Oliver Sacks. Not finished reading it yet and I would say it is quite a technical - medic oriented - book, not intended for easy reading but I’ve discovered that the visual effect I had was a scotoma. I think a scintillating scotoma; maybe a negative scotoma. In the book, there is an almost exact representation of what I could see. Quite remarkable to find such a thing! Of the other things that I’ve read in the book so far, the mos…