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In reply to D Rowland: Coincidence you should ask now; three days ago I woke up later than usual, still feeling tired. I ignored the tiredness. Four hours later, feeling normal, I had lunch in a local restaurant. Suddenly, (coincidentally before paying the check) I got extremely dizzy and experienced urgency of diarhea at the same moment. Sparing you the details; another patron found me on the floor of the restroom and called an ambulance. After several hours and a thorough examination I was released from the hospital without explanation. A day later I visited my primary care physician who reviewed the Emergency Doc's report and said that in his opinion the entire incident was due to an irritation of the vagus nerve. Before this I had never heard of the Vagus nerve.
My question; What do I do if it happens again? His suggestion: "Lie on the floor with feet elevated." I'm open to other suggestions.

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@lesterholland The Vagus nerve is the regulator of the heart's rhythm when it has the correct 'tone', and when the Vagus nerve is not doing its job it's called 'dysautonomia.' As you would know, the body has to central nervous system response sets, the sympathetic (in sympathy with stress and threats, so 'fight-or-flight' with all the energy, heavy breathing, sweating before you exert yourself, and rapid heart rate due to epinephrine) and parasympathetic where you become calmed, relaxed, maybe sleepy. The Vagus nerve regulates the parasympathetic responses if you have no threats about you. So, if your Vagus nerve loses tone, it can cause the bowels to explosively evacuate, or one to void their bladder, essentially involuntarily. Believe it or not, it's a defense mechanism meant to distract or to deter a would-be threat to you, but also to literally lighten the load in case you have to flee to save yourself.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/6004-dysautonomia