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Sometimes my heart is beating out of my chest I raced to the hospital and of course right when I walk in the door it stopped I've never had my heart race this much I have had a panic attack before but this does not feel like a panic attack I feel like my heart rate is always very fast especially walking up the stairs my resting heart rate is almost 80 sometimes even more I'm only 26 years old so the doctorS aren't taking it seriously I'm getting palpatations, this is the most concerning symptom I have I'm afraid it's going to stop sometime
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It's called lyme carditis. I was always wondering whether I would stroke out, especially at night in bed.
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Tachycardia (fast heart rate) is common in Lyme patients. It's not necessarily carditis; it could be dysautonomia, or an endocrine abnormality, or any number of other things caused by Lyme.
The good news is, it's usually not harmful, just really scary, and gets better with treatment. (: Do have a thorough evaluation though, just to rule out any actually heart problems.
I was 28 when my health fell apart, I understand where you're coming from. My heart symptoms have definitely been the scariest.
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- Can worsen heart rhythm issues:
Caffeine, Processed meats / sausages, any stimulating Rx, supplements and some foods [avoid anything that promises a boost in energy - Adrenal SUPPORT is best, not any kind of rocket fuel boosting
- and avoid salad bars at restaurants for they often add nitrites &/or sulfites that can alter heart rhythm]-- & many food additives, preservatives and processed foods:
See post: Caution: Aspartate; Glutamine; and Phenylalanine (3 excitatory amino acids that can be wrong for us when added as supplements, beyond a normal dietary level)
Seaweed has its own natural MSG and can be very excitatory -
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- of course, it is absolutely vital that you work with a true LLMD & that they know all about this. Addressing the CAUSE:
1. Check all Rx and OTC you take for sometimes, heart rhythm changes are side effects &
2. lyme or other infections that can go with it is important for direct & assertive action also with key support methods such as:
3. Basic support for both lyme-induced anxiety / panic and the heart, too:
Hawthorn, cardiovascular - 225 abstracts -
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went to visit friend in Oklahoma this weekend. I've been short of breath, nauseous, weak, dizzy and have a dry chronic cough abd bad heart palps.
they asked me how long I'd been coughing and I said months, dr said it's bronchitis.
he said I had those exact same symptoms including cough before I had triple bypass. you need to go to cardio and get checked out.
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I have those same exact things alexkfiore. I could have written what you wrote, exactly.
It is still my most severe symptom and the one that is most troublesome. I worry about it.
It was so bad at one point (before being diagnosed with lyme disease), that they actually hooked me up to a defibrillator I had to wear.
When the symptoms started the echocardiogram showed the left ventricle (sends blood out to the rest of the body) was working at 20% capacity.
My cardiologist said if I wasn't so healthy to begin with I would have suffered a deadly heart attack.
The last 4 echocardiograms showed nothing wrong and that everything was functioning fine. All other heart tests show nothing wrong.
My cardiologist doesn't know why tests aren't showing anything out of the ordinary if I am still having similar symptoms. I haven't been the same since when it started 2 years ago.
Sometimes if something scary and sudden happens (like witnessing an accident that almost happened) my heart rate rises so high and I can't get it down. It makes me want to pass out.
I fear a heart attack when that happens. I hope as I get further into treatment that will become less and less.
I just started month 5 of treatment, so I know I have a ways to go. If it doesn't resolve if I see all other symptoms go, then I know it must be something else.
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Yes, I have had heart rhythm problems and tacchycardia for a few years now and at one stage it was seriously out of control, but there has been some improvement since I have been on Bisoprolol (heart-specific beta blocker).
I had previously tried hawthorn and coQ10 but without success (though I still take the latter).
Certain dietary things, especially sugar, definitely worsen the palpitations, tacchycardia and arrythmias in my case.
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quote:Originally posted by ukcarry: Yes, I have had heart rhythm problems and tacchycardia for a few years now and at one stage it was seriously out of control, but there has been some improvement since I have been on Bisoprolol (heart-specific beta blocker).
I had previously tried hawthorn and coQ10 but without success (though I still take the latter).
Certain dietary things, especially sugar, definitely worsen the palpitations, tacchycardia and arrythmias in my case.
SO do you think it is a permanent problem due to lyme?
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quote:Originally posted by ukcarry: Yes, I have had heart rhythm problems and tacchycardia for a few years now and at one stage it was seriously out of control, but there has been some improvement since I have been on Bisoprolol (heart-specific beta blocker).
I had previously tried hawthorn and coQ10 but without success (though I still take the latter).
Certain dietary things, especially sugar, definitely worsen the palpitations, tacchycardia and arrythmias in my case.
SO do you think it is a permanent problem due to lyme?
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I suppose not permanent, if permanent damage has not been done yet.
Many too many lyme sufferers have problems with heart rhythm, chest pain, air hunger etc. I had that all too, but it's all gone since lyme is gone.
Babs cause pretty bad air hunger.
Lyme increased my blood pressure too. Now it's also gone.
I think lyme treatment, in my case, plus dental treatment (cavitations) did the whole job of fixing these heart rhythm / tension problems.
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I do think that Lyme in the broader sense (ie more than just borrelia) is the likely culprit.
I have been ill for a very long time, only diagnosed in 2008 and have so far not responded to treatment, but I suspect that Brussels is right when she says that successful treatment may reverse these symptoms.
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