I f anyone could help me with this question i would really appreciate it.
I have had chest pain constantly since last march, sometimes it is worse than others but mostly always there. The problem is no one knows why or what is causeing it.
It is right down the center of my chest. It is usually gone when i wake up in the morning but as soon as i get up and start moving around it comes right back. I also get shortness of breath with it. But heart doctor said everything was fine.
Posted by newdurham77 (Member # 7815) on :
Hi there!
Unfortunately, I get a similar type of pain to the left of my heart almost every day. I had 4 cardiologists say its not the heart. One thing that is somewhat encouraging, is that while it is there when I move, it does not increase with exercise (it increased in the morning and its stays pretty much constant).
Have you had a stress test/holter/cath?
Posted by StuckonLyme (Member # 8196) on :
i had two stress tests, and holter, said it was fine. I also have episodies where my heart gets really slow, like in the high fourty beat per minute range. IS that what they call heart block, or will heart block show up on an EKG
Posted by Corgilla (Member # 4066) on :
Hi,
I've had chest pains, palpatations and skipped heartbeats. It's not very pleasent. It can be very axiety producing too. That just makes it worse for me.
I've had a stress test, ECG, multiple EKG's and such. They found a mitral valve prolapse but otherwise I'm fine.
I think it's the Lyme attacking that particular part of the body.
It goes away as quickly as it comes for me. Just like all the other problems Lyme has caused me.
Hope it goes away for you soon,
Corgilla
Posted by pattilynn (Member # 8065) on :
Are you on a beta blocker? Beta blockers slow the heart beat to 40's and 50's. Also people who are athletic or runners have a slow heart beat. Some people have early beats from the bottom of the heart called pvc's. Pvc's don't register when you take your pulse so it feels like a skipped beat.
Posted by pattilynn (Member # 8065) on :
I forgot, heart block will show up on an EKG (I'm a cardiology nurse)It could be missed though if it was intermittent. It would be common to feel lightheaded or dizzy or have low blood pressure with a heart block.
Posted by StuckonLyme (Member # 8196) on :
ok thanks, i thought heart block would show up on an EKG. Ive had enough of them done.
To tell you the truth i get really anxious over all the chest pain and skipped beats that i wonder if i am causing some of it myself.
I was very athletic and ran alot before i became sick last march, I lifted weights alot and played sports,baseball, basketball,in highschool last fall, so i guess that could be why my heartbeat is slower. The chest pain just makes it feel like thier is something wrong.
I guess if and EKG shows heart block the the holter i wore would have found it.
Just the lovely bugs playing havic with my brain, AND CHEST.
Posted by char (Member # 8315) on :
Hi Stuck,
How long have you been treated?
My daughter had heart pain, but it has gone away after 10mos abx.
Have read in Dr.B guidelines and other places that magnesium and CoQ10 help with heart.
Best wishes,
Char
Posted by Foggy (Member # 1584) on :
My chest pain turned out to be babs. Switching LLMDS and adding Mepron to my abx made a huge difference. Years of chest pain went away after starting Mepron.
Do a search. Lots of dicussion on the subject.
Posted by StuckonLyme (Member # 8196) on :
Hi char,
To answer your question i am only starting my fourth month of treatment. After being infected for ten months before diagnoisies I am being treated for bartonnella and lyme at the moment.
Hi foggy, I have had alot of people tell me that the heart pain i have could be babs. After the bart tx ment if the chest pain isnt gone along with air hunger and chills, we are going to babs tx. Still have a couple months of bart tx left. My llmd said we might be adding zithrow to the levaquin this week, deoends if i stop herxing so much or not. to help with the lyme and bart. Then stay on it for babs tx.
Posted by groovy2 (Member # 6304) on :
Sounds like Babs to me- But most folks with Babs have night sweats as symptom also- Do you?-Jay--
Posted by David95928 (Member # 3521) on :
Also, air hunger (a sense of breathlessness yet having normal oxygen levels) and rotational vertigo (turn your head and feel dizzy) have both been ascribed to Babesia. However, I had both and they have gone away with standard antibiotics (Biaxin and Bicllin LA). I don't know about magnesium for this but it does help me a lot with creepy crawlies and twitchies. David
Posted by StuckonLyme (Member # 8196) on :
i have mostly chills and sweaty hands and feet. When i was put on Zithrowmax i had night sweats all the time though.
Posted by David95928 (Member # 3521) on :
Oh, I forgot the night sweats. they were there but have, again, basically gone away over time with treatment. David
Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
quote:Originally posted by David95928: and rotational vertigo (turn your head and feel dizzy) have both been ascribed to Babesia.
Oh, thanks David! I didn't know that had a name.
Seems to have come out in a big way on the Levaquin, for me. But so have a lot of things. Posted by henson2 (Member # 463) on :
If you do a search on "chest pain" or "costo chondritis" you will find many threads on this pain.
It was one of my worst and most persistent sx in the almost six years before I was correctly dx'd w. Lyme. The LLMD was the first doctor in all that time who knew what I was talking about.
It blew me away that he was so familiar with it. The first Dr. who knew what I was talking about!!
Acc. to him it is a common Lyme symptom. The Lyme bacteria like to hang out in the nerve roots of the spine, and they inflame one or more nerves that wrap around the rib cage. The endings of those nerves, which are on either side of the sternum, get particularly inflamed, sometimes w. very sharp, focused pain.
I had had a lot of cardiac workups, and of course I would urge anyone w. chest pain to see their Dr. about cardiac involvement, and get properly tested. All my cardiac tests were fine.
It sure can be painful. I used to think I had arrows stuck in me, or a laser point hole where all my energy was escaping.
The nerve inflammation can also cause the ribs and soft tissue in the area to be painful, too.
So, OF COURSE check w. your Dr. to rule other things out, but if you have Lyme and have found no other cause, there is a good chance it could be the nerve that wraps around the rib cage, inflamed by the Lyme bacteria that have settled in the nerve roots in the spine.
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