Hiatal Hernia Self Fix

[Article Cryer]

For hiatal hernia:

a) To prevent it: don’t overeat, don’t bend over too soon after eating, no eating in between meals or late at night, practice deep breathing, eat lots of high fiber foods.

b) For treatment: Step 1 - Rub the whole sternum vigorously for 3 minutes (this is a reflex to stimulate the diaphragm). Step 2 - Have the patient lie on their back, put your fingers under their rib cage and slightly to the left of midline (make sure abdominal muscles are relaxed), have the patient breathe deeply and on expiration push inward (deeper) and toward the feet to "pull" the stomach down (see figure 12.2). Step 3 - For three expirations give a quick deep pull toward the feet. Often during one of the "pulls" you will feel gas moving. Step 4 - Rub the sternum for 1 minute. Step 5 - Check breath holding time; if over 40 seconds and #5 in indications of stomach dysfunction is negative, the treatment was successful. If still positive, try again tomorrow. Step 6 - After successful correction, to prevent recurrence, instruct the person that for the next week every morning upon arising they should drink one pint of warm water while standing up, wait 5 seconds and jump up once. If the hiatal hernia has recurred during the night the weight of the water while jumping should usually correct it by pulling the stomach down.

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[tidbitts]

I have a hiatal hernia (according to my doctor) and I also have stomach attacks, bile reflux, my bowels go in reverse and GI motility chaos that keeps me from even digesting most foods. I just barely bought Dr. Baroody's book Alkalize or Die. So all this is kind of new to me. Its interesting to read about your Hiatal Hernia theory and your self fix method, because when I don't digest food for days on end and I'm the sickest, my cat jumps on top of my stomach and starts pushing her paws in and out of that area. She'll usually do this for up to 5 minutes at a time. I always feel so much better afterwards and my digestion seems to kick back into action after she does this. Maybe she is helping me to fix my hiatal hernia and I didn't know it, or maybe shes just helping me to digest all the food stuck in my stomach, I don't know. But I do know this, my cat is awesome!!!

[Article Cryer]

Hi Tidbitts.

For the Hiatal Hernia you have to reset your stomach daily. When your stomach is out of its set place your Vagus nerve that controls your bowels and digestion are interupted. Do the stomach reset as wrtten above and if you don't think it's working keep doing it. Sometimes it takes days before you notice any effects. The vagus nerve has to go back to normal.

Take magnesium. Start with 1 aday (400mg) then go to two (1200mg). Magnesium is a key nutrient for nerve function. Eat some bananas and get some potasium in you also.

As for the digestion. Take a "Pro-Biotic". The stuff works. Phillips colon health is a good one to get the food in your stomach to digest. The Phillips Colon Health isn't that good for the intestinal track. For the intestinal tract try the Schiff brand. The Schiff brand is great for the digestive track.

Keep raising yourself up on your toes and dropping down on your heals. It jars your stomach back down into place. It may be two or three years just to get control of it without surgery.

Goog Luck & Best Wishes!

[hiatalp]

Can you recommend any doctor that specializes in this hiatal syndrome

[Article Cryer]

Sorry!, doctors that deal with hiatals are few and far between. Most symptoms are dealt with by cardiologists because the vagus nerve is pinched or twisted in your stomach and this can affect the way your heart beats. You also can go into states of depression but eat 2 or 3 thousand mg of fish oil for this.

Your best bet is go and find a gastrointestinal doctor and tell him/her you have a possible hiatal. From what I've read on the internet most gastro docs don't do stomach pull downs and if they do it may take several attempts because the procedure doesn't always work.

Also, do alot of stretching. Start stretching your neck muscles and toso muscles regularly. This helps. Also get in the habit of not doing things that push your stomach up. Use the muscles under your rib cage to push when having a bowel movement and "Not" the muscles under your stomach near your crotch. This is the same for coughing.

Eat really small meals to the point of the meals becoming snacks 10 times a day. The food digests and passes faster. Never indulge with food because large amounts of food press on the bad nerve creating more disruption of the nerve signal.

The symptoms may never go away but you can control them.

[hiatalp]

I was diagnosed as having a hiatal hernia over 25 years ago and it has been torture most of my life!! I often land in the Er with weird an vague episodes that no one seems to be able to correct! I often have the popping spasm you speak of makes my heart feel like it skips a beat. The cardiologist said I have a benign arrhythmia but never correlated it to my hernia?!! I often tell the doctors that I just don't feel right like I can't expand my diaphragm. I have also been told I have panic attacks and anxiety but I often don't feel stressed or worried. It all makes sense I often feel this feeling when I have eaten poorly or eaten a very large meal. I have so many of the symptoms you speak of.... Even the tmj and sinuses I have suffered all my life! Been to countless doctors... I have sore throats that no one can explain I even went to Ent because I was loosing my voice! He said my vocal cords are thinning and he believes it's
From my acid hitting my throat! As we speak I had a horrible headache for 2 days and jaw pain like something is pushing everything up and it pops in my head. But doctors look at you like you have 3 heads or you are crazy!! But thank you thank you!!! You are the first person to nail it!! Not crazy am sick and no one takes me seriously!! My pregnancies were horrible felt like I was dying each time and lost 2 boys back to back at 20 weeks and 18 weeks with no explanation. But makes sense my body is acidic overweight hypogicimic when I don't eat . Am sick of being sick!!! Please can you help me?? Can you recommend a chiropractor that can manipulate and get me
Back to health

[Article Cryer]

I read an article a lady wrote on the internet and she stated she suffered from severe arrhythmia episodes that would keep her up all night with the fear of death. She stated she was going through this for over 20 years. She never figured out that the arhythmias were caused by her eating.

I read about a lady who suffered from strange happening like you described but she and her doctor found an exposed vagus nerve in her vagina and fixed the problem for good.

Vagus nerve problems can cause over 50 different syptoms, some severe and some not. The vagus nerve controls all your automatic body functions. You have a right and left vagus nerve that run loose out of the spinal cord down each side of your body.

If you are having heart beat problems and lots of acid reflux you probably have a left vagus nerve problem because the left vagus nerve controls your heart beat, bowel, stomach, skin.

Your arrhythmias could be worse. The TMJ sucks. I had TMJ episodes and the pain is sooooooo bad.

From what you stated in your posts you are having problems with the vagus nerve but it's just middle ground. Yes, the vagus nerve problems can get a lot worse and if you think what's going on now with your body is bad you ain't felt nothing yet.

Get used to doing the treatments yourself. No Chiropractor is going to cure you. You will probably have to deal with this vagus nerve problem the rest of your life and doing the treatments yourself is a must for you to learn and do everyday. Doctors would have to completely open you up like they do in an autopsy to track down where that damaged nerve is. That ain't gonna happen.

First of all, the TMJ pain is caused by muscle knots in your neck or shoulders. Guess what? The vagus nerves run through your neck muscles. So if you are having TMJ, acid, arrhythmias you probably have two places in your body where the vagus nerve is pinched, twisted or has pressure on it.

.1 Stretch and massage your shoulder and neck muscles. Find the lumps in the thick muscle and squeeze them hard. Find the place in your shoulder and neck muscles that hurt the most and massage the places even though it causes even more pain. You'll find out after you've done this a few times you'll find out the pain goes away in your face and jaw while you are doing the massage.

.2 Stretch your shoulder and neck muscles. The muscles should be loose and not tight. This won't help you in the short run but after a few months you'll feel the difference. This keeps the muscle knots from forming.

.3 For the vagus nerve problem, "Start Taking Magnesium". Take 1200 mg. Magnesium comes in 400 mg tables. Taking 800 mg is suppose to give a person diarrehia but this is just occasional and if you have a magnesium difficiancy you will feel better. When you go to the ER I bet yah the first thing they do is hang a litre of liquid magnesium to drip into you. Magnesium and potassium make up your eletrolite compound that is used by your nerves to conduct signals. Taking 1200 mg of magnesuim every day and eating a banana for potasium will move nerve signals better though any damaged or pinched vagus nerves in your stomach.

.4 Tilt your head forward until your chin touches your chest to keep your head from feeling the shock of jolting your stomach back down. Raise yourself up on your toes then let your body drop down with it's full weight until your heels crash into the floor. Do this 10 times several times a day. This jolts your stomach down and releives the hiatal hernia. Your stomach will always push back up and daily you will have to jolt your stomach back down. It may take a few days until you start to feel better. The symptoms will always come and go but after a year or two the symptoms won't be as severe and you will only have a few bad days here and there. "Take the Magnesium" daily.

.5 Stretch your toso and back muscles just like you have to do with your shoulder and neck muscles. Your vagus nerves also control your lung function and one day you will feel your lungs open up and you will start coughing up junk and deep breaths will feel great again.

.6 "TAKE THE MAGNESIUM". <----- Really!

.7 Take the fish oil if you start to feel depressed. Take the fish oil 2000 mg a day along with the magnesium and see if it improves your condition.

.8 When you have acid reflux your vagus nerve is acting up. When you don't have acid reflux your vagus nerve is better even if you are feeling other symptoms.

.9 Take Ibuprofen when you start to feel bad. Ibuprofen acts by coating the nerves. Acetominophen acts by blocking pain signals from your brain and is useless with vagus nerve conditions. Ibuprofen will help you. Just don't take more than 3000 mg a day of it. Don't take more than 3000 mg of any combination of drugs a day at all. You can push to 4000 mg but you risk doing damage to your liver.

.10 Be careful, your vagus nerve controls where the blood goes in your body and in severe cases the vagus nerve will send your blood away from your brain causing you to pass out. You don't sound like you're even close to being that bad but be careful when you are bending over. Get used to picking things up by bending your knees. You will get used to this after a year or so.

.11 Always chew your food to mush before you swallow. The chewed food will create less pressure on your vagus nerve and pass more quickly.

.12 Your stuck with your sinuses. This is not part of TMJ or the vagus nerve condition. Probably a deviated septum that can be corrected with surgery.

[hiatalp]

Thank you sooo much!!! For the first time in my life u feel like someone is listening and knows what I go through on a daily basis! To not be able to take a full deep breath..... Something most people take for granted. Sometimes I feel like this chronic condition is worst then cancer! With cancer they can operate take it out give chemo and if you beat it you can return to normal. I feel I will never be normal. You mentioned skin I have been battling with acne my entire life even still and am 44 most people think I am in my twenties but it's a struggle to keep a clear complexion. Is this related to vagus nerve?? Also most if my problems is my left side the tmj is worst on that side and my shoulder arm and back

[hiatalp]

Thank you sooo much!!! For the first time in my life u feel like someone is listening and knows what I go through on a daily basis! To not be able to take a full deep breath..... Something most people take for granted. Sometimes I feel like this chronic condition is worst then cancer! With cancer they can operate take it out give chemo and if you beat it you can return to normal. I feel I will never be normal. You mentioned skin I have been battling with acne my entire life even still and am 44 most people think I am in my twenties but it's a struggle to keep a clear complexion. Is this related to vagus nerve?? Also most if my problems is my left side the tmj is worst on that side and my shoulder arm and back

[Article Cryer]

I'm familiar with this condition and many others. No I'm not a doctor, just somebody who has family or friends that suffer from the many different conditions people can get.

For the TMJ start with the muscles on your shoulders. You may have pain in your face or lower back but the pain radiates or travels to different areas of your body from a central place. Massage the hell out of your shoulder muscles from your neck to your arm. Find the most painful spot then try and feel for a lump. Massage and squeeze the lump or lumps. You may have several lumps. Sometimes you can't feel the lumps because your muscles are so tight. You may need to stretch the muscles for a week or two until your muscles loosen up, then you will be able to feel the lumps. Massage and squeeze the hell out of the lumps. May take several months until the TMJ condition subsides. May take 3 or 4 months. "Stretch Your Neck Muscles Also". "BEND YOUR HEAD IN AS MANY DIRECTIONS AS YOU CAN". Chin to Shoulder, Chin to Chest, Look backward and up, Look backward and down. Stretch is all and often then find the lumps in your neck, face and shoulder muscles and massage them. The lumps that hurt the most are the lumps that are creating the pain in the nerve.

Oh Yeah, if you take vitamins stick to a multivitamin that has measured doses. The vitamins you have to take for your vagus nerve condition as individual vitamins are the magnisium and fish oil. Very high doses of magnisium and fish oil separate from the measured doses in a mulitvitamin are good for your vagus nerve condition. A good mulitivitamin is the Equat Brand sold in Walmart. This multivitimin has 18 mg of Niacin which is a "B" vitamin. Niacin is good under 18 mg and dangerious above 18 mg.

Stay away from "B" vitamins outside of the multivitamin. The "B" vitamins will cleanse your body of "Magnisium". Your nerve functions have to have magnisium and potassium to work properly. "NEVER" take Niacin (Niacin is a "B" vitamin) outside the measured dose in the multivitamin. Niacin will remove all the magnisium out of your body. Stay away from energy drinks that use high doses of "B" vitamins to perk you up. "B" vitamins make you feel great but they are not good for nerve function in high doses and will eventually damage you. Low doses of "B" vitamins are OK taken in the measured doses of a multivitamin.

Magnisium is the "#1" vitamin you want to drown your body with. Without magnisium your nerves do not work. Without potasium your nerves don't work. Do not take more than 100mg of potasium a day. Potasium should be in the multivitamin and along with the 800 to 1200 mg of magnisium you take separate from the multivitamin you should start to feel improvements in your condition after several weeks.

The Vagus nerve condition you have is a condition lots of other people have too. Some have minor conditions and some have severe conditions. The people with minor vagus nerve conditions like acid reflux only can treat it with over the counter medicines. IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is another common symptom of a vagus nerve condition that mostly women get and some men and people are not made aware that they have a vagus nerve condition at the time they find out they suffer from IBS. IBS is treated with drugs after you've went through very expensive tests that rule out other diseases. There's over 50 symptoms caused by a Vagus nerve condition.

The doctors can't do anything to treat it so they just treat the symptoms. Not to many doctors are even trained to deal with Vagus nerve conditions. Not even neurologists. Neurologists won't do crap unless their tests show an apparent malfunction then they will just treat the symptom. Most vagus nerve conditions get sent to cardio or gastic doctors that put you on drugs. If you are diagnosted with a hiatal the gastro doc can do a surgery pulling your stomach down but that surgery requires a second surgery most of the times because the first surgery failed. If you can find a gastro doctor that's even trained to do the surgery.

Yes I understand your condition well. Just start trying the stuff I stated you should do and "Give It Time". It may take 6 or more months before your body gets saturated with the magnesium and the stomach jolts move your stomach back into place. You'll still have bad days now and again but the good days will be alot more than the bad days.

You probably will never feel great again but you will feel OK most days and be happy to get out of bed and do things again.

Be Happy Again!

[lindzbee83]

Hi there,

Just found the site. Super Helpful! For the person with the allergy problems. I may be able to help. Maybe you can help me with this Vagus Nerve thing

I had been sick for a year and a half with sinus infections and really bad heartburn. I ended up getting ACUPRESSURE. I had a blockage above my spleen. It was my stomach as I am finding out now. I had built up a resistance to antibiotics and nothing was working. I started going once a week and slowly started going once a month.

I started taking lots of vitamins and minerals but I was still having food allergy symptoms. It felt like I had food stuck in the back of throat constantly. I found out I have a Hiatal Hernia as well.

Sinus fluid and acid levels go hand in hand and will go off the charts if one is mismanaged as I have unfortunately found out.

For Allergies Take FLONASE DAILY if not Twice a day and day Allergy medicine that wont make you drowsy. Maybe more as needed. Get Allergy tested!! Immunotherapy has worked wonders for me for Environmental allergies. The Mosquitos don't love me anymore. It's very interesting. I used to get attacked and now they don't seem to know I exist. (Knock on Wood)

Flonase is very important as it helps your body not overreact to allergens which is what generally causes sinus infections. If you are allergic to smoke make sure to take both your Flonase and an allergy pill before going into that environment.

As soon as the sinus pressure or sore throat starts to show itself get in to the bathroom. STAT! Use HOT water. Put the bath on and put Salt, Baking Powder, and Sinus Wash into the water. Then put the shower on to make steam. Take deep breaths. They will make you feel like you want to pass out and fall over to hold on to something. These deep breaths will help start moving things around and you may need to throw up. What you will be throwing up is the sinus fluid that is sitting in the back of your throat and neck. It's really gross but it works.

I usually get in to the shower and make sure it hits my entire rib cage area, front and back. Bend over and put your head practically vertical so everything flows down. Gravity will take it from there and you will cough and throw up. I have to do this once a month if not more.

They also say getting honey from where you live helps fight off the allergies.



As for me, I need help with not drinking caffeine and alcohol and bubbly drinks. Food is already a pain but I have narrowed that down quite a bit.

Have a great weekend everyone!

[Article Cryer]

lindzbee83, Just bend your head over until your chin touches your chest. This is to keep your neck from being jarred when you get up on your toes like a ballerina and drop down real hard onto your heels. Yeap, get as high as you can on your toes and let gravity drop your heels down until your heels crash into the floor. Do this about 10 times as many times as you like each day. This will jar your stomach away from your diaphragm. A Hiatal hernia is your stomach pushing up into your diaphragm under your lungs causing pressure on the vagal nerve to be pinched and not work properly. Jarring your stomach down will help but this may take months before you see any significant results because the nerve has to heal. Some nerves can regrow and heel.

Another problem is muscle knots. start stretching every muscle in your shoulders, back, torso, neck, chest. One day you might pull out the muscle knot and see a really big change. I myself started stretching and one day I heard a pop in my back and I felt like I could breath like I was 5 years old. My lungs opened up and I said wow! Your lungs have two sets of nerves. One set is your motor nerves where you command when you take a breath and the second set is your "Vagus Nerve branch" where the signals to automatically breath come from. The Vagus nerve controls "EVERYTHING" automatic in your body and if one of the nerves is pinched by a muscle knot it can cause a lot of problems with all kinds of functions in your body and not just one function.

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This has been very helpful for me, thanks for the information that you render.I have been having problems with Hiatal Hernia for over 15 years now. Then i found out about the Vagus nerve connection by reading the experience of another person's woes with my same condition. We both had been transported to ER hospitals with symptoms of arrhythmia, very high blood pressure, trouble breathing and anxiety, depression. Before i went to see the cardio-heart doctor, i had learned that hiatal hernia (stomach) could cause problems to the Vagus Nerve, which i strongly believe caused my heart palpitations in the first place.I asked the cardio-doctor about the Vagus Nerve being affected by Hiatal Hernia and he claimed to not know what the Vagus Nerve was. Can you believe that! He went ahead and prescribed me some medication for arrhythmia of the heart.  I would just like to find one Doctor in my area to treat the Hiatal Hernia vs. the Vagus Nerve. ( If any one knows of Doctors/ Kinesiologist ) in the Los Angeles, Ca. area please share. Thanks