Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve, excellent article
 

32 Ways to Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve (and All You Need to Know about It) - Selfhacked

This is an excellent article, with easy and not so easy ways to stimulate the vagus nerve. This is highly recommended reading for everyone here, for anyone who has an auto-immune disorder or just for good health!

I am going back to chewing (xylitol and mastic) gum after reading this. Easiest hack to stimulate the vagus nerve next to humming.

Not exactly my kind of thing, but thanks anyway for posting. :)

Thanks BioBased for sharing this article.

I do know that meditation, singing, humming, breathing deeply, prayer, playing my harmonica, prayer, listening to my relaxation tape, and laughter have all been a help to me. It was good to see this list to see all these things that can help. I will add it to my recovery journal. Now where did I leave that harmonica? hmmmmmm

I get by with a little help from my friends, all my friends in here have been an important part of my recovery.

My physical therapy is going well. It took a little trial and error, to see how much weight I could put on my foot. I am walking better, putting more weight on my left RSD foot slow and steady, which is getting the weight off of my Right hip, which is helping my back. Doing lots of core strengthening exercises, laying down. I have a lot of limitations and we are working around them. Never give up :-)

Had a rough patch in my attempt to lower the dose of Gabapentin, it was a learning lesson, have to step it down even slower. I WILL get off of it. I am more clear headed and have more energy, just lowering it a little. Yeah! My husband was a kind listening ear, and helped me to puzzle it all out, he was very encouraging. It was good to get his perspective, the effect he sees it having on me. He was very encouraging today as he told me he could see how much more weight I was putting on my foot.

Thanks for being there.
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peace
zinnia

hi zinnia. i'm glad that your pt is helping your rsd. pt helped me gain a little mobility back. as for the gabapentin, i totally understand how hard the side effects can be but after a few weeks they subsided for me. i have had rsd for over five long years now and started with about 100mg 4x daily of gababpetin. i am now unfortunately up to 600mg 4x daily. it still makes me foggy but helps me manage the burning electrical like and pain and swelling that rsd causes. gabapentin along with a strong pain killer help me the most with my constant rsd pain. but what works for one person doesn't always work for another. i hope that you find what helps you the most soon. take care.

Zinnia, (:

Thank you for the update! Slow and steady is how it is working out for me, too. I call it, incremental healing. It seems like my brain needs a month to absorb and adapt to each change. This month my arm swing has returned.

Giving up Gabapentin was/is difficult. I still have electric pains, but not as often. The best part is that dreadful foggy, half dead feeling is gone.

The vagus nerve may one day turn out to be the key to taming this monster, if this is the case, I figure it is worth trying to stimulate it. It costs us nothing and the potential for a good outcome is high.

My severe stomach disorders have improved since I started eating a peeled apple every day before breakfast, a suggestion I found on IBS website. With this single change I was able to give up 2 symptom control medications that didn't seem to help me, plus the apple seems to be healing me.BTW I was not diagnosed with IBS, I just guessed and hoped IBS folks would know about cures for stomach distress.

Update on LDN: It turns out that people with a specific DNA gene will not respond to LDN, which is about 20% of the population. I hope that this information is taken into consideration in future LDN studies.

I hope you keep on getting better and better!:D