Why Thousands With Neck Pain, Dizziness & Reflux Are Actually Dealing With a Vagus Nerve Problem

December 12, 2025 By Rossie Keeling

“I stood up and the room spun… but all my tests were ‘normal’. Turns out the problem was one compressed nerve at the base of my skull.”

If you’ve ever stood up and felt the room spin — or had strange chest flutters, reflux, or a choking feeling in your throat — only to be told “everything looks fine,” you’re not alone.

For many people, these symptoms don’t start in the stomach, the heart, or the brain.

They start at a hidden crossroads at the top of your neck.

Right where your skull meets your spine, deep under tight muscles, runs one of the most important nerves in your body: the vagus nerve (and its neighbor, the glossopharyngeal nerve).

When tension in this area builds up, it can quietly squeeze these nerves and nearby blood vessels — and that’s when the strange symptoms begin:

  • Dizziness or vertigo when you stand up

  • Bloating, reflux, or a lump-in-the-throat feeling

  • Palpitations or “rushes” that feel like panic

  • Ear fullness, pressure, or clicking

  • Headaches that start at the base of the skull and wrap to the temples

Most people treat each symptom separately: reflux pills for the stomach, anti-anxiety meds for the chest, painkillers for the neck.

But what if all of them were being amplified by the same hidden compression at the base of your skull?

Keep reading — because if your vagus nerve is under suboccipital pressure, releasing it could change everything.

What Your Doctor Might Be Missing: The Suboccipital “Nerve Crossroad”

Most scans and blood tests don’t look at the suboccipital triangle — a small but crowded space under the muscles at the back of your head (around C0–C2).

In that tight space, you’ll find:

  • The vagus nerve – regulating heart rate, digestion, and calm

  • The glossopharyngeal nerve – involved in swallowing, throat and ear sensation

  • The vertebral arteries – sending blood to your inner ear and brainstem

  • Deep stabilizer muscles that stiffen up when you’re stressed or hunched over screens

When these muscles lock up from posture, stress, or old injuries, they can:

  • Compress the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves

  • Irritate nearby blood vessels

  • Disrupt signals between your neck, brainstem, heart, and digestive system

That’s why you can have:

  • Neck tightness + reflux + dizziness

  • “Anxiety” and palpitations that don’t fully respond to meds

  • Headaches that always seem to start at the base of the skull

It’s not “all in your head.”
It’s often neurovascular compression at the craniocervical junction.

Why Pills, Massage and Stretching Never Fully Fix It

Painkillers, muscle relaxants, reflux pills and even quick massages can help temporarily.

But they all share the same problem:

They don’t decompress the nerves at the base of your skull.

So you get a familiar cycle:

  • You take a pill → symptoms ease for a while

  • You stretch or get a massage → the area feels looser for a few hours

  • You go back to work, look down at your phone, sleep badly → symptoms flare again

You’re treating the noise, not the source.

To get lasting relief, you need to:

  1. Gently open the space around C1–C2

  2. Calm the hyper-irritated nerves and blood vessels

  3. Retrain deep neck stabilizers so they actually hold the new, decompressed position

That’s exactly what HealthEase was built to do.

A Simple At-Home Check: Is Your Vagus Nerve Under Suboccipital Pressure?

Ever notice any of these?

  • You stand up and the room briefly spins

  • Turning your head or looking up makes dizziness or pressure worse

  • Lying on a thick pillow triggers pulsing, pressure, or a “full head” feeling

  • Reflux, tight chest, or an air hunger sensation shows up more on stressful days

  • You keep clearing your throat as if something is “stuck”

These are classic signs that tension at the base of your skull might be irritating your vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves.

It doesn’t start as a crisis.
But left untreated, that irritation can snowball into:

  • Reflux that no diet fully fixes

  • Heart flutters that feel like panic

  • Vertigo that has you grabbing onto walls in public

  • Temple headaches and ear pressure that steal your focus

That’s why we created a way to safely release this pressure at home, in minutes a day.



Meet HealthEase – The 3-in-1 Device That Decompresses the Vagus Nerve at the Source

Most neck devices are just heaters or massagers.

HealthEase by HealthEase is different.

It’s a clinical-grade, 3-in-1 home therapy designed specifically to target the craniocervical junction — the exact region where suboccipital tension can compress the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves.

Instead of treating random symptoms, HealthEase works where the problem begins.

Here’s what it combines in one device:

  1. Cervical Traction
    Gently opens the space between C1 and C2, helping to decompress the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves and restore room for blood flow.

  2. 4D Floating Massage Heads
    Glide and knead into the suboccipital triangle, breaking up fascia and trigger points where nerve entrapment often begins.

  3. Therapeutic Heat
    Gently warms the region, boosting circulation through the vertebral artery and helping calm overactive nerve firing — easing dizziness, pressure and tension.

This isn’t just “comfort.”

It’s a top-down neurological reset, designed to free your nervous system from constant neck-based irritation.

Just lie back, let the device cradle your neck, choose your settings… and let HealthEase do the work.

No appointments. No drugs. No “cracking.”

How HealthEase Works (Step by Step)

Step 1 – Decompress the Craniocervical Junction


The ergonomic traction system gently elevates and lengthens your neck, opening space around C0–C2 so compressed nerves and vessels can finally “breathe.”


Step 2 – Release Suboccipital Trigger Points with 4D Massage


Floating massage nodes move in multiple directions to melt away stubborn knots under the base of your skull — right where many people feel that “band” of tension feeding headaches and dizziness.

Step 3 – Calm Nerve Firing with Therapeutic Heat


Gentle, targeted warmth relaxes surrounding muscles and supports blood flow to the inner ear and brainstem. Many users describe a deep sense of calm as their nervous system stops “shouting” from that area.

10–15 minutes a day is often enough to start breaking the cycle.

What People Commonly Notice Over the First Few Weeks

While everyone is different, many of our customers describe a similar timeline:

  • By Week 1:

    • Fewer “head rush” moments when standing

    • Neck feels less tight at the base of the skull

    • Headaches and ear pressure begin to ease

  • By Week 2:

    • Heart rhythm feels calmer during the day

    • Less choking, lump-in-throat, or reflux at night

    • Sleep feels deeper and more restorative

  • By Week 4 and Beyond:

    • Dizziness episodes are rarer and milder

    • You move, turn, and stand without fear the room will spin

    • Your nervous system finally feels like it’s not constantly on edge

Over 31,000 people worldwide now use HealthEase daily as their go-to, at-home vagus-support routine.

Picture Standing Up… and the Room Stays Still

Imagine this:

You get up from the couch and… nothing.

No sudden rush, no spinning, no need to grab the wall “just in case.”

You sit in a meeting without obsessing over your chest flutters.

You enjoy dinner without clutching your chest or clearing your throat every few minutes.

You wake up in the morning with a neck that feels quiet, instead of heavy and wired.

That’s what life can start to feel like when you take pressure off the nerves that help control your balance, heart rhythm, digestion, and sense of calm — instead of just chasing symptoms.


What’s the Price of HealthEase?

When you consider:

  • The cost of repeated specialist visits

  • Endless refills of reflux or pain medication

  • Time lost to dizziness, headaches, and fear of flare-ups

You’d expect a 3-in-1, clinical-grade device like HealthEase to be expensive.

But for a limited time, you can get HealthEase for up to 50% off the regular price.

That means:

  • Daily vagus-supporting traction, 4D massage and heat

  • For less than the cost of one or two specialist visits

One device. One-time investment.
Support for your neck and vagus nerve every single day.

Stocks are limited — once this batch sells out, this discount ends.

👉 Click below to check availability and apply your discount.


Try HealthEase for 60 Days, Completely Risk-Free

We know it can feel scary to try something new — especially when you’ve already tried “everything.”

That’s why HealthEase comes with a 60-day results guarantee.

Use it consistently. Let it:

  • Decompress your craniocervical junction

  • Calm irritation around the vagus nerve

  • Retrain your deep neck stabilizers

If you don’t feel a meaningful change in how your neck, balance, and overall calm feel… you can send it back for a full refund.

No stress. No questions. No risk.

It’s essentially a 60-day at-home trial to see what happens when you finally address this hidden nerve crossroad.

UPDATE: Selling Out Fast Due to Viral Demand

Since HealthEase started gaining traction on social media, we’ve had a hard time keeping it on the shelves.

And now with our limited-time 51% discount, demand is through the roof.

We still have a few units left—but at this pace, we expect to sell out soon.

If you leave this page and come back later, there’s a real chance it’ll be gone.

Don’t miss out—click below to secure your 51% discount and check availability now.

What Are People Saying About HealthEase?

Mary Jadson
Mary Jadson
★★★★★ My dizziness and chest flutters finally make sense now.

Reviewed in the United States on May 05, 2024

Verified Purchase

I was bounced between cardiology, ENT, and gastro for years. Palpitations, reflux, dizziness — every test came back ‘normal.’ I honestly thought I was losing my mind. After learning about the vagus nerve and trying HealthEase, things finally clicked. Within the first week the spinning when I stood up started to calm down. By week three, my reflux and chest rushes were way less frequent. I still use it most evenings because it’s the only thing that makes my neck and nervous system feel truly quiet.

Customer using the product

76 people found this helpful

 

Mary Jadson
Michael Lusser
★★★★★  Vertigo episodes went from terrifying to rare.

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024

Verified Purchase

I’ve got a long history of neck issues and two herniated discs, but the worst part was the vertigo. I’d stand up and feel like the floor tilted. My doctor said it was ‘just anxiety.’ HealthEase was the first thing that actually addressed the base of my skull. The combination of traction, heat makes that area feel open and light. I still get the occasional off day, but it’s nothing like before. I can work, drive, and play with my kids without constantly worrying the room will start spinning.

Customer using the product

53 people found this helpful

 

Mary Jadson

Kate Michaels

★★★★★ Helped my neck, reflux, and that awful lump-in-throat feeling.

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024

Verified Purchase

I bought HealthEase for neck pain from working at a desk, but the surprise benefit was my digestion and throat. I used to feel like food was ‘stuck’ and I was always clearing my throat. A few weeks into using this, that tight, choking feeling almost disappeared. My neck feels longer and looser, and I notice I’m not reaching for antacids like before. It’s become part of my night routine — 15 minutes on the couch before bed and my whole upper body feels calmer


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64 people found this helpful

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