New Hope For Silent Illness Sufferers?

Today, we're going to discuss dysautonomia. You may have heard this word, or you may not have, but I guarantee you will be hearing a lot more of it in the news, hospitals, and medical facilities everywhere.

It is a new diagnosis to encompass all of the emerging silent illnesses that have popped up since COVID.

I posted an article on our Facebook page just this week. I don't remember if it was from US News or Medical News Today, but it discussed dysautonomia as one of the silent illnesses emerging since COVID. So, I thought we would discuss about it a little bit because it is one of those terms. We were just talking with a medical doctor yesterday, and he said, “You want to know what we know about it? Nothing.” I thought, yep, there's a recognition that something is brewing, something is coming out, and more silent illnesses are emerging. There's going to have to be a recognition of it, but they don't necessarily know what to do about it, what's happening, or the proper protocol.

And I thought this is the perfect time to start talking about my little project that I've been working on. I've been conducting research and case studies for the past 18 years, which I'm calling Neurogenic Illness. It's funny to me; they call it dysautonomia, and I'm calling it neurogenic illness.

Neurogenic means it's created in the nervous system. However, it's an illness that is not necessarily entirely new, formed by the dysfunctions of the nerves. It is a recollection illness, where the nervous system, in its evolutionary nature, has recorded and been trained on how to respond to threats and illnesses—threats and danger—years and years ago and throughout your life. That cannot be ignored when we're looking at chronic illness, unresolved symptoms, or silent illnesses. So, in the concept of neurogenic recollection illness that I've been formulating and playing with, there's a possibility that the nervous system is directly addressing a current issue.

A similar stress looked similar to something that it had dealt with in the past. So, it's kind of like muscle memory—you haven't ridden a bike for 15 years, but you get right back on, and they call it muscle memory. Your muscles know exactly what to do, and you don't have to relearn how to ride a bike. I'm saying that perhaps neurogenic recollection illnesses are the memory of the nervous system.

So let me give you a couple examples of this.

In the office, we had a 13-year-old girl who was bitten by a dog at the age of five. She was previously healthy until that point, and fortunately, she did not contract rabies or any other identified bacteria. However, it was traumatic, and she had to undergo multiple surgeries due to the dog bite. Additionally, her immune system was affected, and she had to take antibiotics afterward. This experience has certainly made an impact. We call them insults to the nervous system. This experience has certainly made an impact on her nervous system, which will record and remember it. So, any time it needs to recall how it dealt with the stressor, it will remember how to do that.

"So now, what I'm contemplating is how impactful it is with her immune system now being very overactive and experiencing a lot of immune trouble. How much of it could be coming from the memory that the immune system was trained with, way back when she was five? I don't think it's coincidental that she was previously healthy up until that point and has had problems ever since, as Mom was reporting.

Another example: We had a man who had three TBIs, three concussions, and he was currently on his third one. So, he was getting treatment from multiple doctors. Then he came to us and had us join the team. The approach that we took was that we could not just look at the 56-year-old concussion; we had to look at the 26-year-old concussion and the 16-year-old concussion as well. We needed to see what the nervous system got trained to do at each of those times and what the response was to deal with each of those concussions.

My own son is another good example; he's dealing with some chronic, silent issues of his own that have emerged in the last couple of months. So, we're working with him. He had a severe dirt bike accident when he was 16 years old, and his body went into shock. His heart rate shot way up, his blood pressure shot way up, his breathing got restricted, and he would get cold and clammy. That's how his body dealt with that particular injury. That's what the nervous system did to keep him alive during that time. Now, another stressor comes up, and he had an incident where his heart rate elevated. Is it possible that his nervous system remembered, 'Oh, I remember when we did this before, remember that,' and then put on the full-on training it had received in the past? It is definitely not studied, not researched.

"This is a brand new possibility, and I'm just exploring it a little bit more. I certainly love to hear stories of people who have had unresolved symptoms or chronic illnesses that didn't start as a child and developed over time. I would like to know what the timeline of events was and what insults were recorded to the nervous system.

Now, you've heard me talk before. I don't believe that you get injured once. I believe when you get injured, you get injured twice—once in the physical, which you can see, touch, feel, stitch up, and correct. But you get injured again in the nervous system because it records everything that you experience. For example, when you touch a hot stove, your hand gets burned, and you remember. You register that as a training program that your nervous system received.

Now, every time you go to a hot stove, you don't have to consciously tell yourself, 'Okay, Amanda, be careful, this is hot.' Your subconscious does that; the training program runs on its own, and it tells you to be cautious. You just start acting cautiously around it. Now, every time you are around a similar trigger—like a gas stove, a campfire, a stovetop, anything that you know is hot—that is a, quote-unquote, trigger for the nervous system to be ready to provide that program. So if you should get burnt again, it's going to act in the same way that it was trained to do when you had the original injury. I'm having a lot of fun with this theory, and I definitely would like to hear people's experiences and thoughts on that.

So feel free to email, share that in appointments you have with me, and then start paying attention to all the times that you hear the word dysautonomia. I don't believe that it just has no answer; right now, it's just kind of a pat answer to sum up a dysfunctional autonomic nervous system. I think it's the perfect timing to interject that it could be this neurological training program that we have kind of in the ether and biofield around the body. So, lots of new things to talk about. I hope that interested and enlightened some of you, and I'm happy to hear your stories and your thoughts on it.