HeidiC wrote:
Well, I guess God just doesn't love me as much as he loves you. I gave up cycling and running and grew all sorts of collateral arteries. And, yet, I ended up with both iliac arteries blocked, exercise ABIs below .3, and barely able to walk. Resting ABI is rarely the issue; it’s the exercise ABI that’s important, assuming you would like to do even some basic exercise (say, walk) -- even at my worst, my resting ABIs were the same as yours. All that spaghetti-like crap in the picture below is collateral blood flow, the "fixed itself bypass" you refer to. Didn't solve the problem. The only reason I'm responding to this is because I know this thread turns up high in Google searches on iliac artery endofibrosis and I'd like others who read this to be well-informed. But like themadcyclist, I'd love to know the names of your vascular surgeons and their experience with this condition.
Nice post Heidi. Agree that this forum pulls in "internet researchers" for this condition. Bumping it up a bit ;-)
I'll let the Dr. Googlers read between the lines with the opinions on here ...
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Fatigue is biochemical, not biomechanical.
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