Inflammation can affect any part of the vagus nerves, which is why one person’s symptoms will be different to someone else’s. If one part of the vagus nerves is inflamed, it will cause different symptoms than if another different part of the vagus nerves is inflamed. You’ll often hear these nerves referred to in the singular—that is, “the vagus nerve,” as though it is one single rope of a nerve running through your body. I say “vagus nerves” because there is a pair of vagus nerve branches stemmi