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I can offer some suggestions: yoga, meditation (both require some not inconsiderable learning, so this isn't a weekend-long uptake and new pastime), calming actions to improve the tone of the Vagus nerve (there are YouTube videos if you google that syntax), eating less (maybe try eating more often, but less, less salt (only if you get a lot in your diet, not if you already skimp on it), if you're a bit overweight, lose at least 10 pounds, try fasting (helps with weight, restores sensitivity to insulin, can reverse Type II diabetes in quite a few cases), and avoid both caffeine and nicotine if you are fans of either.
Remember, the Vagus nerve is part of the PARA-sympathetic nervous system....the calming system. If you're chronically under stresses of all kinds, anxiety, inflammation, pain, other forms of duress, your Vagus nerve will slowly lose ground until it can no longer do much for you. The more motivated you are to regain control of your existence, your path, the less stress you'll have in all likelihood...no guarantees, but that's the idea.
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Thanks for this… sadly, it’s nothing I didn’t already know- kind of wishing to hear about a drug or a magic bullet for restoring the vagus nerve. Yoga was my best friend for fitness and management of a pain syndrome-pudendal neuralgia- I’ve suffered for seven years. One of the reasons I know I’m in serious trouble now is I can’t do yoga without it triggering atrial tachycardia - which started 2.5 years ago and has grown steadily worse but no specialist now for one year. GP is burned out.
I mediate as much as anyone can with chronic nerve pain. (Pain is the only thing that comes into awareness when all distraction is removed so this is a serious deterrent. Even sleep has been virtually impossible for 10 months now. Like sitting down to relax in a burning building and trying to ignore all impulse to flee. )
Sorry to be so negative. I also seriously question if my problem is vagus nerve related other than via the link to the pudendal nerve-as I’ve done so much to try to retrieve my health via breathwork, attempts at yoga and meditation, physiotherapy, cold water dipping, meditation without yoga and even ketamine assisted therapy. All the things I can do and pay for without medical intervention. I am slim, trim, have no blood pressure or other health issues and other than the pain syndrome, tachycardia and associated anxiety - I was in good health. Just trying to live my best life, (which is a good life and I love it) and do physical chores that I used to be able to do in spite of my arrythmia but end up like today -in bed feeling sick, looking at a daily walking average on my smartwatch of 153bpm and feeling like my life is completely out of control and miserable. Calls made to see about specialists and referrals showing that they’ve all fallen through… nothing coming to fruition…no
appointments booked afterall though I’d thought there were active referrals in play … I was trying not to “dwell” on the problem by checking in on those- just assumed I’d get a call when an appointment came available. If I lived somewhere where Medicare was not universal (and could pay my way out of this mess) and wait times to see specialists -9 months if a referral
can even be gotten -or to see a GP -one month for a 10 minute phone consult…were shorter -I’d be in a better situation.
Considering an ER visit except I know from experience this is futile. 7 hour wait to be given an antacid for chest pain and because EKG will be normal— stress test from two plus years ago normal- no repeat test available except after a nine month wait- triaged…based on the normal test from two years earlier and a holter showing “atrial runs” but not afib.
I really liked your comments because I am
hanging on to the fact that this extremely uncomfortable condition must not be life threatening (though my body says otherwise) or else someone would react like it was worth doing something to help me with it.
Sounds like you are on top of your issues. It gives hope at least.