Caryn
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30+ years multiple Lyme/Babesia infections , two vacation on Nantucket Island, and two local yardley, pa. Tired. What I thought anxiety these days despite serious heart symptoms early on accompanied by abusive behavior from UPenn drs who never did a real medical exam, the often scary heart symptoms I had and wrote off to ‘Lyme anxiety’
now after a real med tests have revealed moderate mitral valve regurgitation. Does anyone else have that heart condition? What do I expect and do from here? I do have an appointment with a cardiologist in a few weeks.
But anyone else out there have this heart condition as a result of untreated, then undertreated Lyme disease?
Caryn
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I cannot remember exactly what the genes letter-numbers were, but I was tested and I do have the two genes for mold -allergy?- as well as the gene Dr Shoemaker calls ‘the dreaded gene’ that may be the HLA-B27, only 7% of the population has and it makes you harder to cure from Lyme as well as sensitive to a strain of algae found in some lakes as well as some other things. I only found out just a few years ago and that Dr turned out to be a bit of a nutcase, unfortunately. I cannot afford to go to a llmd right now. The heart issues are really scaring me.
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Caryn
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Thanks for this article. I was awake all night, and am going to try to sleep a little right now, but look forward to reading it when I have a little sleep
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I just saw a news report about a new procedure developed by a Dr Bavishi at MU.
Seems to work very well.
There are 4 million people who have MR.
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Hi Lymtoo, I did make an appointment with a cardiologist, but it is not until April, although the receptionist told me to keep calling back in case of a cancellation. The cardiologist is my husband’s cousin, although there is a big age difference and we used to live far away and so have not seen him in 20 yrs. Nevertheless, even if he is clueless about Lyme, I think he will have my best interests in my mind.
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