My son is 12 years old and had is first vp shunt placed at 3 weeks old. Now 15 surgeries later..... he has been having problems with overdrainage, we are now looking at yet another surgery or 2 because apparently technology has yet to catch up to him. His strata shunt is set at 2.5 and he is still overdraining and now the surgeon said we could add a "restrictor" and if that doesn't work, take out the shunt and hope he doesn't still need it. Now, my question I suppose is this, what are the prognosis' for restricting, removing, or just letting it be and living with the symptoms. I guess my husband and I are wondering if we are looking at our worst nightmare of losing our son. We just need to know if the outcome is probably going to be the same no matter what or if one way looks better than another. We really don't want to have him go through more surgery if the outcome will be the same especially because he has been through so much already.