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Heart attack? Heart block? What does heart block feel like? I woke up in middle of night feeling like I was punched in chest. I've been on doxy 400mg a day for a week for new tick bite. Ty
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You can't feel heart block at all. I had it but mine's resolved now.
When I first took doxy it slowed my heart rate down into the 50s. I was definitely having some kind of heart herx. Other antibiotics have caused my heart to race as a herx.
I have come across tales of people who have had heart attacks as a herx too. If you're having heart attack-like symptoms it might not hurt to get checked out to be safe. Although personally, I've thought I was having a heart attack many times, and I've always checked out fine,
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Ty for reply. I think I'm ok. I'm a week into 400mg doxy a day. Long history but major tx about 20 yrs ago. I'm on omeprazole and have not had reflux for awhile. I mostly sleep upright for other reasons
This is the sx...never happened before. I had been asleep a short time. I woke feeling like I had been punched in left chest. It made my whole body jump in the bed. I even thought I might have been shot.
I was pretty shook up. I took an aspirin. My bp was slightly elevated. Bp has been high ish since last surgery in Feb. I had urgent bm...that was wierd too. Helped me realize I wasn't dreaming tho
There was a long period of time I had sharp chest pains and went to ER and it was always dx as refluxor costochondritis...this was very different. No chest pain. Normally I take reflux med and muscle relaxant And Then sx stop so I don't go to ER...but I didn't have those sx. And I haven't had a musc relaxant since before Oct when I started with histamine problems...cuz its high hist...and I didn't want to add anything unknown to what was going on
Yesterday I had 2 doc appts and felt really good.. Did errands and some gardening
One appt was 2nd visit to chiro for 3 yo pain in rib on right side. I was afraid it was cancer from breast cancer that we missed...its supposed to be gone after mastectomy
But this rib pain is 3 yrs old and trying to figure it out is how we found cancer
Chiro said rib is twisted. First tx made it better for 2 days. 2nd tx yesterday was more aggressive with tapper. He said rib had moved but wasn't right and my neck was extremely tight. So he worked on those 2 spots
I forgot about that tx possibly causing last nights problem. When I fell asleep my last thought was that the rib pain had moved from under my arm much closer to rib cage
Who knows. Good answer s here about heart block not causing pain. Heart stuff is one thing I haven't learned much about cuz it is one thing so far I haven't been dx with
Its in the back of my mind tho cuz I've been obese a ling time and have high lipid a long time and now last 5 months bp getting higher and erratic and my dad died of heart attack
So Ty. I feel pretty good and I'm taking meds. What a trip this disease is.
I haven't talked to you guys in so long but seeing your names I just relaxed cuz I know you know and I was getting the best info I could. Ty.
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This is the sx...never happened before. I had been asleep a short time. I woke feeling like I had been punched in left chest. It made my whole body jump in the bed. I even thought I might have been shot.
I was pretty shook up. I took an aspirin. My bp was slightly elevated. Bp has been high ish since last surgery in Feb. I had urgent bm...that was wierd too. Helped me realize I wasn't dreaming tho
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If that happens again, please go to the ER.
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quote:Originally posted by Lymetoo: This is the sx...never happened before. I had been asleep a short time. I woke feeling like I had been punched in left chest. It made my whole body jump in the bed. I even thought I might have been shot.
I was pretty shook up. I took an aspirin. My bp was slightly elevated. Bp has been high ish since last surgery in Feb. I had urgent bm...that was wierd too. Helped me realize I wasn't dreaming tho
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If that happens again, please go to the ER.
Yes, yes, and yes!!! In fact, call 911.
Oh, and on the doxy, i thought that you weren't supposed to lie down for 1 hour---esp given your reflux issues. That said, it sounded like more than just doxy issues.
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