Has anyone used a Stella Ganglion Block as a way to see if IJVC is causing your symptoms?
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Iâve had a quick look through past discussions; there are quite a few mentions of people trying it for nerve pain and also dysautonomia symptoms, but not really any conclusive results, so you could try sending a private message to the members about what they found was helped. Iâm not very knowledgeable about it, but I canât really see how it would confirm IJV compression is causing symptomsâŚ
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I think the idea is it would confirm if its effecting the sympathetic nervous system possibly through the vagus nerve and other nerves in the neck. Probably not so much with the blood flow. I meet with Brianna and she suggested it?
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That sounds fair enoughâŚ
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No i have Eagles and IJVC, i meet with Brianna who suggested it could help with the Vagus Nerve Symptoms im having, i thought the Block effects the sympathetic nervous systom? She suggested it could help and be a clue what is being effected by the Compression. It soulds like tihs might not be the case?
It is used to reduce sympathetic nervous system activity:
âSGB has been shown to reduce hyperarousal and stress-related symptoms, possibly through vagal modulation of central autonomic circuitsâ (Central effects of stellate ganglion block mediated by the vagus nerve? An alternate hypothesis for treating PTSD - Johns Hopkins University )
Obviously weâre not doctors here, so I guess if it was something you wanted to try, this would be best discussed with a doctor. The vagus nerve is often compressed at the same time as the IJV as they are next to each otherâŚ
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Yes, one of the first things I did on my journey was a SGB on right side. When my weird symptoms started showing up my doctor thought it might be long covid. When pursuing that, I found a long covid doctor in Texas and he explained symptoms similar to mine in his long covid patients. One of the things he recommended to try and reset the nervous system was SGB.
During my visit with him and doing the ultrasound for the injection, he stopped and showed me that my vagus nerve on the screen was âbrightâ or inflamed. He explained that he was seeing this in a lot of his long covid patients.
The SGB did absolutely nothing for me nor did any of the other long covid treatments. But getting confirmation of my vagus nerve dysfunction led me down a path to look back at compression as a probable cause, which led me to discovering my IJV compression on the same side as my inflamed vagus nerve.
So while the SGB did nothing for me, it was a important puzzle piece in my journey. Unfortunately, like so many other procedures, when SGB doesnât work, they often recommend doing the other side, making it hard to tell if its not the correct procedure for you or if it was âjust the wrong sideâ. In my case I did not pursue the second side but I am confident it would not have helped since I didnât get even a slight bit of relief from the first time. Fortunately, it is not too invasive or expensive like so many other procedures. From that perspective, it is certainly not as big as say EPICL, which was much more invasive, much more expensive and also didnât help at all.
All the best to you!
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Great Info Thanks did you end up having surgery and if so how did it go and who did it?
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