Natural Healing

Hi, Just wondering has anyone on here ever tried any natural healing? As opposed to surgery and medications???
I'm going to try it soon and see if it helps relieve pain and my other symptoms and if it doesn't work well then theres no harm done and i will just go back to the plan of embolization and stent.

I do 't know about natural healing instead of modern western science (ie. emobilization and stent). However natural healing can be great to help with the symptoms after the surgery or treatment. I have a lot of success with using different types of eastern medicine. I think that one reason that it works is that it requires you to be in touch with your body and learn how to control what is going on with your body.

Best of luck to you.

I would be more inclined to try this for symptoms but not for treatment of the AVM. I've used acupuncture to ease my anxiety when I wanted to come of the medication. It worked very well for me. I would be skeptical of anything that promises to rid your body of the AVM. I would also check with your doctor though before trying any natural supplement. I'd love to hear about what your experiences though.

Hi Zoe!
I was just thinking about this because I'm currently doing acupuncture to alleviate some of my post-surgical ummm challenges. As Trish and Kellie said, I would be very skeptical if someone said a natural treatment could get rid of an AVM and prefer to have it surgically removed if possible. But that's just me. I'm certainly not an expert in either natural or traditional "western" medicine, but I do not see any harm in using a natural method to treat symptoms or even post surgery symptoms. Best of luck with this and let us know how it goes. :)

Hi Zoe - I prefer natural stuff over pharmaceutical blends, but in the case of the AVM itself, I'm unsure that you can go this route. Either way, one of your doctors should be able to let you know if there are any natural substitutes for your med. needs.

But I think that it comes down to preference - I just have a thing for how some things can cause an addiction or have aweful side-effects.

Also, there's a medicine sub-group on this site - you might pose a discussion there, too.

Before my mother was diagnosed dural AVM, she did acupuncture because some doctors she visited thought it was age and high blood pressure that caused the ringing (bruit) in her ear. So, as some of you have rightly pointed out that traditional medicine did not/cannot fix the problem. Right now she is on traditional Chinese medicine to relieve post-embo symptoms. No drastic improvement yet. I'll keep you all posted.