Has anyone else had severe tachardia/palpitations with artemesinin? I had to stop it last year and thought it was an allergy. My doc thinks it was a herx. Whatever it was it was strong enough to kill me. I'm not a wimp with this stuff.
Has anyone else had the heart problem with artemesinin and then later been able to tolerate it after a week or a month of mepron?
I just started Mepron and am taking a beta blocker along with it to slow my heart. I am having heart things going on but they are far less intense and sort of in slow motion (thank goodness for the beta blocker! ). The idea of certain babesia species causing "slough off" of broken red blood cells seems right. That's what it could be- loose clumps or bunches of the stuff going through my heart. That description could match the headaches I'm having too- not intense and not long lasting. All of this is sort of bubbly-feeling.
Asprin seems to be helping too- thins the blood, so maybe that is what's happening.
[ 15. December 2006, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: caat ]
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
In my experience ALMOST EVERYBODY has heart palpitations with Babesia Herxes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Often in the middle of the night!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Badtick (Member # 9794) on :
Yep, going through it now for the last 5 mos.
Posted by caat (Member # 2321) on :
Thanks, But will they calm down enough for me to possibly add artemisinin? See my reaction above?
I better ask this better on another thread.
Posted by Dave6002 (Member # 9064) on :
My doctor gave me beta blocker to calm my palpitation.
However, I never convinced me to take it. I was figuring that palpitation might be a compensative reaction to the impaired blood circulation caused by Babs, and good thing to the body.
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). The idea of certain babesia species causing "slough off" of broken red blood cells seems right. That's what it could be- loose clumps or bunches of the stuff going through my heart. That description could match the headaches I'm having too- not intense and not long lasting. All of this is sort of bubbly-feeling.