Hi
@joejack102,
I've not spent much time on the forum the past few months because of my own difficult recent-onset tinnitus. But I've continued to have a great deal of interest in your situation, as well as feeling a great deal of empathy for what you're going through. I've not really felt "qualified" to say much about choline or the methylation cycle, as I really don't understand either all that well.
However, I do feel I have a fairly good understanding of the vagus nerve, which I feel is dysfunctional in most people with CFS, and according to my understanding, orchestrates the whole parasympathic system. I know my own VN has been dysregulated since I had a vehicle accident at age 15 (now 66), when I suffered a serious head injury and whiplash. I believe the whiplash "crimped" my cranial nerves, with the crimped vagus nerve causing most of my CFS symptoms.
I did an atlas "repositioning" technique (Atlas Profilax) about 10 years ago which I believe relieved a lot of the pressure on my vagus nerve and improved a lot of my symptoms. One symptom that didn't resolve however was slow motility, which eventually led to gastroparesis. To address this as best I could, a number of years ago I developed a routine of doing daily coffee enemas, which I did primarily for regularity and detoxification. I was always amazed--and still am--how deeply they affect my overall sense of inner harmony (for the better!).
For the longest time, I thought this inner harmony I was able to reclaim had mostly to do with detoxification. But a couple years ago, I changed my thinking on that, and now believe it resulted from stimulating my vagus nerve from doing the coffee enemas.
THIS LINK will take you to a very good 10-min. video, which gives a succinct description of the vagus nerve and its functions. It also gives three techniques that he feels work best for stimulating the vagus nerve to improve it's functioning (and attendant parasympathetic response). His #1 technique is the coffee enema.
I don't post too much about my health orientations, as most people are not particularly inclined toward the way I think. I made a post recently on a tinnitus forum, which, if you're interested in reading would shed a little more light on how I approach my own very difficult health issues.
THIS LINK will take you to it, if you'd like to peruse it. It touches on some energetic techniques I'm currently using, and I'd be happy to discuss anything about my approach to healing if you have any questions.
I sincerely wish you the very best as you continue to search for something (anything) that might help improve your situation. It sounds extraordinarily difficult, and as I said earlier, I greatly empathize with what you're going through.
All the Best,
Wayne
@Cort, I wonder if you might have any insights on what might be going on with JoeJack's experiences with choline...
@jeff_w