I was diagnosed with occluded left carotid artery. Vascular surgeon said they don’t do anything in this case as they “ don’t have control of both ends” and surgery in this case could result in particles of the calcium deposits traveling to my brain and doing damage. My question is: is it common for a surgeon to do nothing in this case? I have had no symptoms….no headaches, dizziness, weakness etc. My statin dosage was recently increased and vascular surgeon said to begin taking baby aspirin a day. Doing nothing makes me nervous about the future.