Bye-Bye Fight or Flight? Hello Better Blood Flows? SGB, Long COVID, and ME/CFS/FM/POTS

A procedure developed in the 1930s that shoots anesthetics into big nerve bodies found on each side of the neck? Does that sound sketchy or what? It’s reported, though, to be quite safe and it aims to do two potentially important things in long COVID, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and related diseases: calm down the sympathetic nervous system and restore blood flows. It’s called stellate ganglion block (SGB) and it was just tried in long COVID.

The “fight or flight” response driven by the sympathetic nervous system appears to be on high alert in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and numerous inflammatory diseases. The corollary to that hyperactivation is an underactivation of the regulator of the sympathetic nervous system – the “rest and digest” or parasympathetic nervous system.

Please click the link below to read further:

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2021/12/28/stellate-ganglion-long-covid-fibromyalgia/

At Pain Spa, Dr. Krishna is highly experienced in managing patients with long term pain, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue/ ME. Please contact us if you wish to have a consultation with Dr. Krishna.