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Hi @joaf37 , Interesting question. Now for me it wasn't something to treat just something I had to get used to. I can share that I had a friend who was sure that his episodes of AFIB were tied to what he ate. I do know the vegus nerve not only helps in adjusting to changes in heart rate but also regulates the stomach processes like digestion. Kind of a fascinating nerve. Now for me it was not cut from the stomach but only the heart, so my transplanted heart won't respond to the need for increases in heart rate as quickly as someone with their native heart. So, my guess would be a neurologist as they deal with nerves in general and since that nerve ties into a few different organs that would be my thought. have you by chance asked your PCP? that for me would be who I would ask for a recommendation. I am curios though are you experiencing heart related issues? or stomach?

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Thanks for taking the time to send this. My PCP here is a good guy overall, somewhat cardio knowledgeable and very practical. Have been with him about 18 months. My employer changed insurance coverage more than once so we've had to change PCPs more than once. However, I go to Vanderbilt Medical Center for cardio. It's 200 miles away. I had to make a change although this is not a small town with no options. I'm a Mayo patient now for something else but Mayo is too distant per cardio because I need to go for cardio care fairly often. When I had gone to Mayo years ago, I knew what the basic tests were per what they did immediately. My Mayo MD raised the issue of the vagus nerve then but not any emphasis. The local cadio MDs I had where I live weren't even doing those basic tests even when I had major concerns. Vanderbilt, within three days elapsed time, per those tests, discovered I had a heart attack. Talk about shock. I'm lucky I didn't have another one when I heard that. I am staying with them for continuity regardless of the travel costs and time but they haven't raised the vagus nerve issue. I'll raise the issue on the portal. I've had a couple of cardioversions, initially with 6 months success, the most recent with ongoing success. I started to see an Afib specialist there as well (that's been several months) but no sign of it now ... seems to be the opposite. I'm in holding pattern aside from the Rx I take but far, far better than when I first went there. Again, thanks for taking the time to send your message,