Is peripheral vascular disease reversible? If so, how would you go about it?

It has been noted in several ongoing studies that certain of the new cholesterol controlling drugs may play a part in reducing existing blockages (occlusions) in coronary arteries however these studies are not complete yet.

It has been noted that peripheral arteries do not respond to treatment as coronary arteries do. While the cause is unknown it is suspected there are certain tissue makeup differences.

Duke University, among others, is conducting studies on growing new arteries for patients using various cell growth methods. Currently it is felt that this approach may well eventually enable complete and total repair of diseased arteries.

As my doctors say, once an artery is damaged there really is no "making it perfect again". All they can do is attempt repairs.

A healthy diet plus statin drugs probably stop peripheral vascular disease from getting any worse (similar to how they do for coronary artery disease). The new class of drugs for heart disease have been proven to open up blocked arteries. Likely these effect peripheral vascular disease just as well. Likely to be released for general use very soon.

I just had an aortic bypass surgery done in February as I had no blood flow to my legs and two of my toes had turned black. I kept telling my doctor that I had trouble walking just from the kitchen to the bedroom in my house and no one would pay attention to me until I showed up with black toes. The vascular surgeon wanted to amputate both my feet as I had no pulses in my feet. That means there was very limited blood flow going to my feet. They checked out my heart to see if there was a blockage there and it was clear just my aorta or the huge artery that leads from your heart down into your abdomen and then there are arteries that branch off and go to your kidneys and then it splits into two arteries that go down into your legs. After they cut me open from my breastbone to my pubic bone, they made cuts in the very tops of both of my legs and did bypasses there with Dacron so they did not have to take veins out of my lower legs. That way, I had two less incisions. It is the most horrible surgery to have except maybe heart surgery. It is very serious and you should seek medical attention immediately. Many diabetics develop this later in life also and should see a doctor immediately if they think they have this. I kept seeing that commercial for PADS on TV and kept saying, "I have that condition". I sure did and I am so glad that I got medical attention when I did.