• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

PrettyIll

Header Right

Dr. Diana, both a doctor (therapeutic optometrist), and a recovered POTS and ME/CFS patient, offers help and hope for POTS, Dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Lyme, vascular abnormalities, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Diana is now working full time at POTS Care.

  • Home
  • The Driscoll Theory®
  • Videos
  • Meet Dr. Diana
  • Forum
  • Store

Reply To: Digestive Issues: The Vagus Nerve Connection

NEW STUDY! Parasym Plus™ for Multiple Sclerosis › Forums › PrettyIll.com Discussion › Pain › Digestive Issues: The Vagus Nerve Connection › Reply To: Digestive Issues: The Vagus Nerve Connection

May 8, 2012 at 5:14 pm #2126
Dr. Diana
Keymaster

This is such a great topic. I put together the vagus nerve involvement about a week after the doctors told me my gall bladder ejection fractions were down to 18%. No gall stones, though. I was having LOWER right quadrant pain (and ruled out ovarian cancer first). The doctor said to have the gall bladder removed. I asked why. “If there are no stones, but it is not working properly, that sounds neurological, doesn’t it?” (I tried to be nice). The pain turned out to be my ileocecal valve (this was AFTER I figured out about the vagus nerve connection for us!). Do you know what shocked me? The G.I. surgeon recommended I never have abdominal surgery unless it was life-threatening, because when they go in and remove organs, they pay no attention to the vagus nerve! This is why so many people have gastroparesis after abdominal surgery. We already fight gastroparesis if our vagus nerve is affected. The vagus nerve goes EVERYWHERE in our abdomens, but I am still surprised they don’t try to salvage at least some of it. Yikes….:ohh:

Footer

PrettyIll.com

This website was created to inform, educate and brainstorm with fellow patients and doctors. The content should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Readers are encouraged to confirm all information with other sources and their physicians. The creator of this site will not be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, or other damages arising from the use of this website.

Twitter: @prettyill

What others say

“Dr. Diana will always hold a very special place in my heart for her selfless devotion to helping everyone, not just the Ehlers-Danlos community. I hate to think what my life would be without her insight and guidance.”

-- Chris Gross

Listings by topic

  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Consult
  • Contact
  • Coping
  • Ehlers-Danlos
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Mast Cell Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Orthopedic Issues
  • Pain Control
  • POTS
  • Speaking Engagements
  • Store
  • Uncategorized
  • Vascular abnormalities

This work may not be reproduced, copied or used in anyway without the express permission of the author -- that's me © Dr. Diana Driscoll 2020