Damaged VAGUS nerve - on the edge of life - receiving a message.

Dont they sever the vagus nerve sometimes for therapeutic reasons?

I dont see why that could kill you.
My vagus nerve gets agitated sometimes due to acid reflux and witll throw me into PVCs. My heart is going skip skip skip beat beat beat skip skip.

Last Edited by Eyeseeall on 01/28/2011 04:16 PM

vasovagal syncope, in and of itself, is not deadly.

Right the heart is the main thing doing the beating. The vagus nerve just regulates the beat below 100 bpm. It can't kill you.

Last Edited by Eyeseeall on 01/28/2011 04:18 PM

The vagus nerve controls everything in the chest/lung/abdominal area. If it snaps, you're through.

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Yes, it's scary. You aren't going to die though. Not unless you're standing on a cliff when an episode hits, or the roof of a highrise building. You're going to be fine. Pinky swear.

The most immediate effect would be an increase in heart rate. In addition, regulation of heart rate, contractile state, and conduction of electrical impulses through the heart would be impaired.

The reason for the observed effects are that the vagus nerve carries important information to the heart from a part of the central nervous system called the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is often considered the "rest and digest" system. It decreases heart rate, decreases how strongly the heart contracts with each beat, and decreases the rate at which electrical impulses are conducted through the heart. This is in contrast to the effects of the sympathetic nervous system on the heart; the sympathetic nervous system raises heart rate, force of contraction, and rate of electrical conduction in the heart.

A normal heart does not require information from the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems in order to beat. The heart has an intrinsic pacemaker that allows it to generate heart beats on its own. The heart's pacemaker generates a pace at a rate of about 100 cycles per second, which means that if the heart was to take matters into its own hands (ie, have no innervation), then it would beat at about 100 beats per minute (bpm).

If that's the case, then why do normal adult hearts beat around 70 beats per minute and not 100?

As was hinted at above, normal hearts are innervated by the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. And both act on the heart at the same time. While you might think that the systems would cancel each other out, it turns out that the heart receives more sympathetic stimulation than parasympathetic stimulation at rest. The result is that the heart is effectively told to reduce the heart rate from the normal 100 bpm to something closer to 70 bpm.

Thus if you take a normal heart at rest that's innervated by both sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, and then sever the vagus nerve, you lose the parasympathetic input to the heart, while leaving the sympathetic input intact. The result is that the resting heart rate increases, to something closer to 100 bpm.

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You will live.

Last Edited by Eyeseeall on 01/28/2011 04:20 PM

Every person is "good" and "bad".

You can't have one without the other. It's the nature of duality.

And if you think you're just a "good" person, you're deluding yourself somewhere.

"Good" and "bad" people mix everywhere all the time - inside and out.

:)

The majority of the most beautiful things in history happened as a result of someone being "bad." How could God or anyone else look at ALL of it (and us) as less than magnificent because of that?

How could any one person be "damned" because of an action that probably led to a magnificently touching reaction somewhere?

I wish you health and happiness, OP. Sending love your way.

Thanks for the message, op. I wish you well. Pray for a healing. Miracles do happen.

Dont get me wrong, it was a message and it wasnt related to me in a sense that I am the good person and others are bad, it was an illustration:) I did not mean to sound prude.

try fasting idk.

my vagus nerve judt said that u r a pooftr!

So you are basically saying here, that even if my vagus nerve snaps, the body will still make the heart beat, due to the symetric input? IM NOT GONNA DIE!!!!! :) Thank you! Im soooo releaved... i thought i was gonna die:(

It's ok. God bless your heart. It will be ok :).

If it does snap, go to the doctor, and they will put you on beta blockers to regulate your heart beat.

I should go get those meds now, because my heart is not at all doing well because of this. I am having major drops in bloodpreassure and i keep passing out. No wonder i thought i'd die..:/

Think of 11:11 as a symbol of two door openings. One side is karma complete, the other has work to do.

Same here. My acid reflux has really agitated it. If I stand up in the mornings I get dizzy and start to "grey out", and when I am on the toilet (I know to much info) my heart rate goes bazerk.

After eating my heart beats and skips, beating very hard and slow.

Last Edited by Eyeseeall on 01/28/2011 04:31 PM

lol. I've passed out on the toilet (especially when I was a kid...from a simple pee). There were times when I couldn't even stand up in the mornings long enough to shower. Very unfun. Up to and including nausea/vomiting/heart palpitations. None of it will kill me though. ^_^

You are talking about acid reflucs, do you have any other problems in your digestive system? curious:) Cus I do.

Yes, im almost for certain I have a herniated stomach and MAYBE MAYBE the start of chron's. I'm not sure yet though. I need more tests done, when I get around to it.

I figure its not life threatening so I can hold it off until I get more money to pay for the tests.

I have a strange feeling humans aren't meant to sit on the toilet like that and strain. Something about it seems unnatural.

not sure, it's like The major nerve, runs all thru the body. doesn't seem likely.

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They used to at one time. It was called a Vagotomy. once popular as a way of treating and preventing peptic ulcer disease.

Everyone on GLP feels qualified to offer a medical diagnosis.

Sheeeeeesh !!

No offense but that's BULLSHIT! Heh-heh jost joking friend. Seriously you just made me think of something that hadn't occured to me: if your acid reflux can throw you into pvc, maybe that's what is happening when I eat habenaro peppers? It crossed my mind that they might be causing it but I thought it was coicendence. But I'll eat a whole habenro or 2(usually with jalapenos also) with chili, or damn near anything. And I will get that shit. Weird as I bust out into a sweat,eyes water nose runs mouth burns it's uncomfortable but I crave it.... May have solved it. I haven't had any pepper for a couple days and no pvs.

Nah, I never had to strain to pee at 8 years old whenever it happened. Just seemed odd when I came to, all clammy. lol

I've had issues like collapsing while walking down a very busy stairwell in between school periods (rapid stand up to walk to the other side of campus). Could've been seriously injured if there weren't so many people there to pad my fall.

It's not from straining. As has been stated, it's from that silly nerve. :p Nothing too special about it.