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The Vagus nerve and inflammation
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: May 25, 2023 | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
I know how to stimulate the vagus nerve to stop a cough by massaging behind my ears, but have not tried this:
https://www.chopra.com/articles/reducing-inflammation-starts-with-the-vagus-nerve
Has anyone tried this method, and is it helpful? It seems like a long-term thing so results are probably not apparent as we are reducing inflammation with a steroid.
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Before I was diagnosed with PMR and GCA, in addition to most of the usual symptoms, I had about 29 gagging attacks over six months. They would occur at the same time everyday, with a funny feeling behind my navel, profuse sweating from a point on top of my head and a convulsive-like gagging reflex in a straight line down the front of my body with vomiting and diarrhea. Sometimes these attacks would put me down for the day. I started researching the vagus nerve and did all the exercises I could to reactivate it. There's a lot on YouTube, plus I bought the book, "Activate Your Vagus Nerve" Dr. Navaz Habib on Amazon.
The attacks stopped about a month before I was diagnosed and started taking prednisone. I just took a look at Dr. Habib's book, and there's a diagram of the vagus nerve on the cover. It shows it extending up both sides of the head, ending below the ears down the neck and into the shoiulders. I never realized it before, but those were the exact places I had neck/head pain, so severe I could not turn my head. That pain didn't stop until I took prednisone.
I've never seen a post about gagging attacks with PMR or GCA. They were a horrible symptom.