Vagus Nerve Stimulator and mental illness

I have had an ECT done but it came back negative. I had an irregular heart beat after a tachycardia episode. The nurse felt my pulse and felt the same. The moment I was hooked up to the ECT monitor, I must have relaxed being in a safe environment and it went back to normal just before she pushed the button. The ECT came back normal...sigh. I had an EEG done many years ago but it came back negative. My understanding is that it isn't a precise means of diagnosing all forme of epilepsy. It is not a very reliable indicator when the symptoms are so subtle. As I am changing medication at the moment I am also experiencing possible peripheral neuropathy in my toes...it has spread from one toe to all four. I have experienced this before in situations that have put me under stress over longer periods of time. Interestingly my tachycardia episodes were generally associated when I was doing things such as sport and had bursts of adrenalin. I used relaxation techniques and get a large thump and my heart would go back to normal. Since I have stopped a lot of the higher physical type activity for some years now because of my age and inability to travel far, they have stopped. Photosensitivity was also one symptom I teased out...it to can be related to the vagus nerve from the journals I have read. By wearing sunglasses, I can reduce the anxiety level a little when driving particularly...if you consider the flicker through trees from the sunlight, again we have a possible link to the autonomic nervous system. I used to dread the onset of summer.I became quite cynical about the system some years ago. Many doctors either weren't familiar with the autonomic system or they had a "god complex" and didn't like being questioned. I gave up until now...now I have mission impossible.....try and convince the medical establishment that my panic disorder has a primary cause in the autonomic system...so far I haven't convinced him. I feel I have to write a thesis to convince him...but then he'll think I'm quite mad! 😞 I shall read the link. Thankyou for taking the time to respond to my question...you also take care. 🙂

It is a GP with extensive psychiatric experience. I am unsure if he is being secretive and seeing if I write up a thesis or something to prove myself or he just can't handle that I may know a little more than him in regards to the vagus nerve and current technologies. I am still waiting on my appointment with my psychiatrist . I hope he is a little more interested in the different modality of my PD. I will have to be patient.

I am still in the process of asserting myself. I can be quite insistent!

It is a GP with extensive psychiatric experience. I haven't fobbed him off at this stage. I am waiting on an appointment with my psychiatrist. As I am a partially functional agoraphobic I cannot see a nerve specialist. Hence I have come up with a novel approach using HRV and a vagus nerve stimulator....unfortunately not approved in Australia yet as it has only just come out this year...it is not an implant.

SH ? It could be an acronym that stand for many things. Why do you ask?

Oh...next post says Self Harm...

I almost took an anti epileptic drug that was offered by a doctor...but I need proof. It's the scientist in me. I declined at the time.