Vagus Nerve -- How, Where, What, When Why

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Re: Vagus Nerve -- How, Where, What, When Why
« Reply #30 on: July 08, 2008, 06:22:42 PM » by DHW

The crying reminds me: after having some chiropractic work done, especially to release some adhesions near the base of my skull, I burst into tears. My chiro said that is not unusual after that type of treatment, he saw it quite regularly. Something about the nervous system resetting itself. So, have you had any body work done?

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Re: Vagus Nerve -- How, Where, What, When Why
« Reply #31 on: July 09, 2008, 07:52:47 AM » by Kati*did

I haven't had any body work done, but a good friend suggested that this might actually help me. I have been considering going to a chiropractor but have been hesitant to do anything since this all seems so random. I would love to know more about what that means (the nervous system resetting) if you see him again soon.

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Re: Vagus Nerve -- How, Where, What, When Why
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2008, 10:33:27 AM » by Whiterock

I ran across a tiny bit of info on the vagus nerve while doing research on gastroparesis to help my mom. But the last few days "vagus nerve" kept rattling around in my head. I kept seeing little things to remind me of it and then I saw this thread come up in a search on something else and bookmarked it. I decided to read it before bed last night and ended up not going to bed until after 1:00 after following links and doing Google searches and such. Autonomic Neuropathy due to damage to the vagus nerve after a spinal tap failed to seal, seems like a very plausible explanation for ALL of my mom's symptoms.

After a spinal tap to test for meningitis (she actually had rocky mountain spotted fever) mom leaked spinal fluid for a week and went completely blind before they finally patched it. She was in excruciating pain but, on the one hand, the doctors seemed to think she was exaggerating, and on the other hand, they told her that if it was from the spinal tap then she would have been in so much pain she wouldn't be able to stand it. When she went blind, and dad took her to the ER, without any physical examination, they told her it was a migraine and sent her home. An intern slipped her a piece of paper with the number to a neurologist whom he had asked to see her (he said he would loose his job if the hospital knew he'd done that). She went, and although he denied that it could have been leaking for the entire week since her spinal tap (the "too much pain to standing it" thing) he did a blood patch to seal it and she got her sight back, but never regained some of her memory. She still has trouble with memory, eyesight, and a few more things.

It was not long after that when she began having health problems. It started slow, with acid reflux, and has been snowballing since then. Now her doctors are saying they can't figure out how to help her 'cause they can figure out what's wrong. Finally, two of them have decided to send her to the Mayo Clinic. I'm sending her with a piece of paper with "Autonomic Neuropathy - Vagus nerve damage from spinal tap?" on it so she can remember to ask them to test for this.

So, now, how does one heal vagus nerve damage naturally?? All the med sites I saw last night just gave a long list of drugs to take for the various affects it has on different organs and systems.

Please help.

WR

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Re: Vagus Nerve -- How, Where, What, When Why
« Reply #33 on: October 15, 2008, 10:55:14 AM » by Kati*did

Wow, Whiterock...that's rough. I'm sorry you're mom had all that happen! I don't remember what all I posted in this thread, but I did start taking 600 mg of Alpha Lipoic Acid daily, as well as 1300 mg EPO and 1200 mg fish oil. Now that the days here are getting grayer and I'm inside more I'm back to CLO -- 1300 mg. As far as I could tell in my research, the ALA was the most promising thing in healing the vagus nerve/autonomic system. I took it for about 3 months. About 2 months after taking it consistently (and EPO and fish oil), I started seeing many of my symptoms become less regular. They are, for the most part, gone now.

Basically, I found out that by doing a major cleanse while taking depakote, I dislodged large amounts of the drug settled in my body and "overdosed", then went into withdrawal as it left my body. Somehow, this did a number on my vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system. I think that the ALA was extremely helpful in keeping my nerves from serious damage and I believe that it helped bring healing along more quickly. However, I do know that some of the healing was simply time-related as I got the drug out of my body.

Anyway, according to research and use of ALA by Linus Pauling, this is one of the best ways to help the vagus nerve/autonomic n system. EPO was a runner up.

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