The vagus nerve and the bug

...and why it matters

My opinion: the bug is not a respiratory disease

The bug that has beset us for the last 2 1/2 years is, I believe, something that attacks the vagus nerve. No mainstream doctors, no alternative “front line doctors” are telling us this. They, to the last person, worldwide, are treating it as a respiratory disease, specifically as a respiratory virus, but it is not just a respiratory virus. Sure, the lungs get affected, but so does everything else supported by the vagus nerve, to the degree of your pre-existing weaknesses.

Whilst the rest of the world has got hung up on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, with good reason, they imagine that the issues related to the bug itself are over, but they are not. This article is specifically and only about the bug itself.

My personal story

First, let me indulge in a personal story, not to get sympathy or attention, but to provide the illustration for what follows. I know other people’s medical woes are boring as hell, but this one matters.

I am not vaccinated and at no time during the last two years have I voluntarily worn a mask or been tested. I was taking natural anti-virals at lowish levels, but in May 2022 I got sick nonetheless.

I started to get breathless going up the stairs to my flat. Then I coughed a lot, then I struggled to breathe at all, lost my voice, lost total control of my bowels and bladder, and finally called the ambulance - for the third time - they had refused to take me to hospital on the first two calls - when I retched up some water immediately after I had drunk it. If I couldn’t even drink water and hold it down, I knew I was in serious trouble.

When I arrived at the hospital, I was tested for covid, returned a positive test, and was put into an isolation ward, in which I was imprisoned, in solitary confinement, for the next 13 days. My blood oxygen level was dangerously low and lining up to kill me, so it was worth paying attention to. But during that time, the doctors completely ignored my other symptoms, and they ignored a pre-existing condition, fibromyalgia. They gave me fluid for dehydration, intravenous antibiotics and an anti inflammatory, and stuck prongs up my nose delivering oxygen. For 11 days my blood oxygen did not significantly improve, I still had no control over my bowels and bladder, was coughing incessantly, and my voice remained croaky and mostly missing. Then suddenly it all came good, or at least, vastly improved, and I walked out on day 13, the first day I could legally leave my prison cell, with or without medical sanction.

I tell this story to provide the context for my growing realisation that I had not suffered a viral attack on my lungs. I had suffered some kind of collapse of my vagus nerve, triggered by what? The vagus nerve carries messages to and from virtually every organ in the body. When it stops, all the organs go into meltdown. I lost my vocal chords, lung function, bowel and bladder function simultaneously, and my heart rate went over 100. So should we have been treating the vagus nerve? I think so.

So what is the vagus nerve?

I won’t try to answer that here. I am not medically trained and it is too complicated to explain simply. But the article linked below does a good job. If you do not know what the vagus nerve is and what it does, read this very accessible article. The vagus is the trendiest nerve (we have those now)

The vagus nerve and the corona virus

We are now seeing a few articles published on the idea that long covid is related to damage to the vagus nerve. This article is one of them Long COVID Symptoms Linked to Effects on Vagus Nerve

Note the word “effects”. Even these people may have confused the chicken and the egg. They are implying that covid has caused some kind of secondary damage to the vagus nerve, when in fact, from my personal experience, covid IS an attack on the vagus nerve, and any remnant vagus nerve issues are the residual effects of that attack. I still have a gravelly voice, despite the fact that I seem to have recovered from the other symptoms I experienced.

Healing the vagus nerve

The vagus nerve has swept into medical awareness in recent times, as a key to managing certain types of mental and emotional illnesses.

The following link is a good example of such a focus. The vagus nerve: your secret weapon in fighting stress

All the recommended treatments are focused on stimulating the vagus nerve, and this stimulation has been shown to improve the symptoms. There are lots of exercises in various articles on the web. They all involve electronically stimulating, or massaging or vibrating the nerve where it comes close to the surface, but none of them “feels” very convincing to me. They may be applicable if you are dealing with mental or emotional issues, but they are not too convincing if the vagus nerve itself has come under some kind of deadly attack.

So what has caused the vagus nerve to malfunction?

Again we have a chicken and egg problem. If vagus nerve function is essential to mental and emotional health, then how did that functioning become compromised? How did it get damaged? How did it start to malfunction? Stimulating it might improve mental and emotional issues, but why is it not functioning effectively in the first place? Can the vagus nerve be attacked by toxins, radio frequencies, parasites, bacteria, viruses, fungi? Can it be under direct attack by something? And if so, can it be protected from or rescued from that attack? No-one seems to be publicly addressing this possibility.

My personal opinion is that the assault is likely to be from one of two sources, but these are just guesses.

Maybe it can be damaged by WiFi particularly 5G. This seems possible because all the first outbreaks of the bug around the world in 2020, coincided with a blanket rollout of 5G to those geographic areas. Since then the entire globe has been pretty much blanketed in 5G, so everyone is now at risk.

Or it could be damage caused by some kind of living organism. This seems possible bearing in mind that the most successful non-approved treatments for the bug, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, are, in their normal application, anti-parasitics. This might indicate that some parasite or the toxic waste they leave behind them, is compromising the vagus nerve.

What can we do if our vagus nerve seems compromised?

In the absence of anything focused on what has damaged the vagus nerve in the first place, we can do the exercises that you will find all over the web. I presume they have to help to some degree, while we are working out what is really going on. I have bought a course online of sound and breathing exercises used to stimulate the vagus nerve. You can see it here. I know nothing about the long term efficacy of these exercises, but at the very least, I am enjoying them, and they give me a sense of empowerment in the face of long covid. Jim Donovan

I have also found a homeopathic remedy that is supposed to address the vagus nerve. Again I stress that I know nothing about this company or this particular remedy. I will be testing it on myself, but am not actually recommending it. It is made from a vagus nerve itself, using the normal homeopathic approach. I will try it, to see if it clears up my last remaining obvious symptom, my croaky voice. (I am also speculating that maybe the apparently incurable Fibromyalgia has a vagus nerve link but that is another story.) Narayani Vagus Nerve - Homeopathic Remedies Online

And then what? We wait. We wait for some aspect of the medical profession to think this is enough of a possibility to do some serious research. How long will we wait?