What is dysautonomia?
Dysautonomia applies quite often to fibromyalgia patients. The term dysautonomia describes a delayed, inappropriate and exaggerated autonomic nervous system response to an external or internal stimuli that has long passed. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) or the primitive and unconscious part of our mind controls every aspect of our internal organs and their functions. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) ANS consists of two major components, namely the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic nervous system of the ANS initiated organ functions such as: increase heart rate, increases smooth muscle tone of the bowel (decreases bowel motility i.e. tight bowel or constipation), decreases blood flow and increases the blood pressure (increases constriction of the smooth muscle of the blood vessels wall), constricts the pupil, etc. The parasympathetic nervous system however does exactly the opposite. The end organs depending on the different stage of its assigned function initiat
