Summer3
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Today and yesterday my heart palpitations have really gotten a lot worse. I haven't been drinking caffeine or doing anything that should have intensified it. If I check my BP during it, it's "normal" for me but the irregular heartbeat detector does go off.
My doctor has heard it before and hasn't said much about it. I'm in my 20's and until Lyme I was very athletic and low risk lifestyle-wise for heart problems.
I have changed my diet to very low fat about a week ago and added systemic enzymes for protomyxzoa and biofilms. Other than that I don't know what could have set this off.
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I am no expert, but if it makes you feel any better I had a lot of heart "sensations" that felt like rapid heart beat, skipping beats, irregular beats, and spasms in the left chest area. Also pain that was right around my heart, went through to my shoulder and under my arm pit. It got so bad I had to ask my hubby to turn the TV off since I could not stand any excitment in a movie, for example - I thought I was going to die from a failing heart.
Got a full work-up at the cardiologist and he found some "weak leads" but basically gave me a clean bill of health.
Very frustrating this Lyme crap! It would be nice to know what is going on, but it seems like I am ok, even though I do not feel like it at all at times.
It has gotten better, and I attribute it to muscle spasms and neurological irritation due to Bb crawling through my heart and nerve tissues.
Supposedly I am not dying, so that is ok then, if they are right.
Actually did rather well on the stress test, so there is another case of docs thinking I am crazy when I know I am not.
Maybe this makes you feel less scared.
I hope it is the correct information, that what feels scary to us is not that big a deal.
Again, I hope they are right.
A nurse told me heart skips are harmless but can feel scary. I hope that is all I have.
Good Luck!
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I would let your doctor know of the increase of heart palpiations - if it is after hours, perhaps a visit to urgent care would be a good idea, just to be checked out. They can run an EKG and make sure it isn't something more serious.
If you have other 'new' symptoms that go along with the heart palpiations, such as shortness of breath or leg cramping, then definitely urgent care of the ER.
Other than that, you say that the two things that have changed in the last week are your diet & the start of systemic enzymes.
Starting two rather drastic lifestyle changes at once can make it hard to figure out if one or the other may be causing an increase in your irregular heartbeats.
So a process of adding back your normal fats intake and/or stopping the enzymes for a few days and see if there is a reversal of symptoms.
Basically get back to your baseline normal. Then start one thing at a time. Either start the enzymes or lower your fat intake.
Wait a few days or a week and then add/remove the other protocol.
This is the simplest I can think of to see if the changes in irregular heartbeat symptoms are diet or enzyme related.
Could be a herx as well. But always be on the safe side when it comes to major bodily organs. Feeling ill is one thing, having a major organ like your heart involved could be a major medical issue.
Keep us posted.
Hugs,
Edessa
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Systemic enzymes will intensify the antibiotics you are taking. Therefore, there will be more herxing.
Yes, please contact your LLMD and let him/her know. A trip to an Urgent Care would be a good idea.
(Our urgent care will no longer take anyone having heart symptoms. They ship you right over to the ER.)
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Summer3
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Yes the same here with urgent care. I'm not going to an ER. I know I sound ridiculous and stubborn but I've had so many negative experiences with doctors that I would rather risk a heart problem (even if it did turn out to be serious) than deal with any more of them.
I bugged my LLMD's office a ton last week about the sting reaction so I really don't want to call them again either.
My dad died suddenly of heart problems fairly young so I know the risk involved. At this point though I have very little faith in normal doctors. They didn't help him when he was dying and they had plenty of time to try before he went into cardiac arrest (hours).
If something bad happens it happens. That's the way I see it. I know it's morbid but that's part of my indifferent/uncaring/distant attitude that has developed from constantly having to deal with scary symptoms every day for many years.
I'd like to add back in fats, but I really want to keep the new protocol up so unless this gets drastically worse and I feel like my life is in danger I am going to try to stick it out. The diet/enzyme protocol is one of the only things I haven't tried and I want to give it a chance to work.
I think the heart palpitations are probably from stopping magnesium although I can't prove it. I went from 3000mg per day to 0 in supplementation. Just like the diet, I don't want to add it back yet. I really want to try to get rid of biofilms and see if that helps things. I have treated aggressively in many ways (herbs, antibiotics, alternative methods, etc.) and haven't had any improvement. I want this to work very badly.
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yes probably stopping the magnesium has something to do with it. If you are uncomfortable taking oral MG per the Dr Fry thing, why not do transdermal Mag? That works really well. Dr Shealy's has a really good product.
I don't really get the stopping Mg thing. Lyme and bart severely deplete this mineral so we need it.
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Summer3
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I don't think stopping magnesium is a phenomenal idea either, but since I was literally surviving on magnesium (3000mg per day) and fat (peanut butter, larabars, coconut milk products, steak, etc.) I figured that I should try an anti-biofilm protocol as aggressively as possible to see if that's why I haven't gotten any improvement.
Apparently, a little known fact is how dependent our WBC (white blood cells) are on Glutathione status. When Selenium and Mg are low, there's not enough to go around...
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