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\n Lynn Milam says that a nerve-stimulating implant has dramatically improved her rheumatoid arthritis, allowing her and her husband, Donald, to regain the life they once enjoyed together.
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For more than four years, Lynn Milam’s life was bound by the pain that radiated from her swollen joints.<\/p>\n

“My children could not hug me,” she says. “I couldn’t hold my husband’s hand.”<\/p>\n

Milam also couldn’t climb stairs or help raise her teenage son. She spent most days on the couch.<\/p>\n

The reason was rheumatoid arthritis<\/a>, which occurs when the immune system starts attacking the lining of joints.<\/p>\n

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Milam tried everything: physical therapy, acupuncture, steroids and even the latest immune drugs<\/a>. Nothing worked.<\/p>\n

That changed in October of 2023, when a surgeon implanted an experimental device<\/a> in Milam’s neck. For a minute each morning, it delivers pulses of electricity to her vagus nerve, which connects the brain with internal organs.<\/p>\n

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\n This device, when attached to the vagus nerve, can dramatically reduce symptoms in patients with some of the most severe cases of rheumatoid arthritis.
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“Three weeks in, my elbow pain was completely gone,” she says. “Then my hands didn’t hurt anymore, the swelling started going away.”<\/p>\n

Eventually, all symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis had vanished. Milam, 60, says she and her husband have regained the life they enjoyed before she got sick.<\/p>\n