any input appreciated,Sue.
Go to http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html
This is George Eby's website.
Click on left column - "Rapid Recovery From Depression Using Magnesium Treatment." This website covers all aspects of Magnesium from anxiety to nervousness ---- it's amazing. I've upped my magnesium and & short term memory has improved greatly.
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Here's Marnie's wonderful entry on July 7th:
George Eby, the developer of zinc lozenges (smart man!), had manic depressin. I repeat, HAD. He cured it.
He has a HUGE website, incredibly documented with a zillion links. Into a search engine, type his name and the word "Magnesium".
Depression is caused by a Mg deficiency.
Lyme disease, Bb, depletes our Mg levels incredibly and very fast.
The Romanians (recent abstract) found a 34% deficiency in 2 patients with positive WB tests and the typical rash.
That is an astounding drop!
According to microbiologist, Dr. Gary Kaiser, Bb uses Mg in its enzyme reactions. Ours. It speeds up gylcolysis (this bug loves sugar too) which in turn calls for more Mg. In addition to that...we need Mg and Ca to make antibodies to fight this pathogen! So, we're making a lot. Only they are "unhealthy" (Fab portion).
Need to get Mg levels back up asap.
Dr. B.s guidelines say sometimes IM or IV doses are needed. Sometimes? Nah...always.
per Marnie
A lot of people who have this also have mitral valve prolapse, which seems to heal itself after treatment. For a while, I truly thought I was going to die -- my heart would speed up to 120 bpm, and stay that way for hours or days. I'd flip. A very sympathetic nurse, who did my cardio checkout for me, suggested that I was in a continuous feedback loop -- the MVP would cause skipped/rapid heartbeat, I'd get scared, the adrenal rush would speed the heartbeat further, and off I'd go. So I learned not to panic and breath steadily when I had tachycardia, and that helped.
Dental work can also worsen this.
Finally, many people with LD have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia, some of which can be traced back to the neurolyme stuff. You'll find quite a bit about it if you search on Lymenet or the Web.
Bottom line -- it sucks, but it won't kill you.
I agree on the Magnesium. Dr. B recommends the slow release kind; I use Natural Calm. Also Theanine (a derivative of Green Tea) and B12.
I wouldn't discount a rapid pulse till you have it really checked out. To say it won't hurt you, will depend on your problem and what is causing it. It's triggered by something, could be something as simple as chocolate or the caffeine in one cup of tea. The trigger would be a ``stray'' signal somewhere in the heart.
These signals can be sought out and killed or ablated is the term they use. Five wires are inserted in the groin area and fished up to the heart where one wire puts out a millavolt (spelling) till it finds the trigger and the heart starts to race. The area is then ablated and re-tested.
Very new technology. With heart doctors, the old ones are referred to as ``plumbers'' and the new ones are referred to as ``electricians''!
Do a search for ablation for more information and the thread above should take you to doctors near you down under.
I recommend you buy and wear a pulse monitor. You can pick one up anywhere they sell treadmills and such. They are not expensive and it will give you a good idea of what your heart is doing and when it is doing it. If nothing else it will give you a baseline for future reference.
Dying from a heart attack, really is not a bad way to go, like going to sleep. However, if you have things left unsaid and things left undone and your just not ready to go yet, then you need to ``listen'' to your body. Medication can only do so much and often the side effects cause the heart to race, so you don't know what is causing what. The list of doctors I've sent you can examine you and even solve your problem or offer the best advice you can get anywhere! Good Luck!
The fact that you ``feel'' upset or can feel activity in your chest or feel discomfort there is not a very good sign. Tachycardia can come from two places in the heart, one not so serious, one serious!
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I am suspicious every time someone comes up with a "genetic" explanation. It happens so often, seems like the default, along with auto-immunity.
These explanations just look like a sophisticated way of blaming the patient! Patient did not recover because he was a couch potato, ate the wrong things, had bad genes, etc. etc.
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