Difficulty Digesting
Nerve pain can cause gastroparesis. It occurs when the vagus nerve is damaged. In normal conditions, the vagus nerve helps to contract the stomach muscles to help move food through the digestive tract. In most cases, this nerve is damaged by diabetes. This stops the muscles from working well, impeding the mobility of foods from the stomach to the intestines.
Nerve pain can cause partial paralysis of the stomach. The stomach loses its ability to empty food the usual way. If you have this condition disrupted nerves and muscles are unable to work with their normal strength and coordination. This slows the movement of contents through your digestive stomach.
Other factors responsible for gastroparesis are;
- Viral infections
- Gastric (abdominal) surgery with injury to the vagus nerve
- Drugs such as narcotics and some antidepressants
- Amyloidosis (deposits of protein fibers in tissues and organs) and scleroderma (a connective tissue disorder that impacts the skin, skeletal muscles, internal organs and blood vessels)
If you don’t treat nerve pain properly it may exacerbate over time. it mostly starts with the nerves far from the brain and spinal cords to those in the feet and hands.