Impinged nerve

Hi James, in all of my years here at HW I have not heard of the vagus nerve causing impingement in the cervical spine. We've had a lot of members with impingement, typical symptoms are arm pain, some have described the feeling of like electrical shocks shooting down their arm, numbness & tingling in some fingers, shoulder pain & neck pain. With that said they have findings on their MRI's, along with some of the above symptoms.

My limited knowledge of the vagus nerve is with uncontrollable seizures & injury to the vagus nerve during certain gi surgeries.

I get tachycardia from stomach or esophagus or colon irritation. My usual irritant is sulfite, but many problems could do the same thing - including perforated diverticulitis. Once I had this too! Vagus nerve connects heart, gut, esophagus, lots of other organs. Often the tach is preceded by nausea (I can't vomit due to stomach surgery) or diarrhea. Look up cardio-esophageal reflex (not reflUx).
I also have a bunch of impinged nerves in the neck, but they don't cause tach on their own. They do cause all sorts of pain in the extremities.