Cathy Sapp
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                        
                        
                        I wish I could say that there is a treatment, but in my experience there is none but the shunt.      I also was diagnosed with this in my 30's.  I had a shunt installed and then removed after 6 months because it made all my problems worse.  The doctors can't really say why it failed to solve the problem, they just started prescribing all kinds of meds that I couldn't take because of an allergic reaction,  plus the side effects were intollerable.    I wish I could help.