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ORIGINAL: lovingpet

Sleep apnea has been eliminated.  My weight gain came after symptoms and this has gone on for years now, but reach a fever pitch this past year.  Depression has been thrown out there, but I have no tolerence for the meds, so I am more or less left to deal on my own or with more natural means.  When I say barely awake and functioning, I mean that I get so exaughsted out of the clear blue that I am actually sick.  It takes nothing for this to happen.  I deal with moderate levels of pain every day and more severe pain with increasing frequency.  I have migraines, hearing and vision changes, heart palpitations, spiking and falling blood pressure, some loss of sensation in arms and legs, problems with balance, problems with memory, poor emotional control, and more.  It is really something.  There is no nice neat diagnosis and those that seemed almost sure to be it vaporized under testing.  We have looked at everything from simple nutrition to cancer and everything inbetween.  They have eliminated things like lyme disease, hepatitis, lupus, rhuematoid arthritis, diabetes, thyroid, and heart disease.  Now we are looking into weirder things.  I have a diagnosis of fibromyalgia that I am not willing to accept because my symptoms began to fall out of the parameters of even that vague diagnosis.  I also have a SEVERE vitamin D deficiency despite extreme attempts to raise it.

That's the short version.  Thanks again for all the help!  I am well on my way to developing a plan.

lovingpet

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Later the two nervous systems are connected via a
cable called the vagus nerve. This nerve meanders from the brain stem
through the organs in the neck and thoric and finally ends up in the
abdomen. This establishes the brain gut connection. So it is from a
correctly functioning gut that we enjoy neurological, psychological
and immunological health.