We can have the critters in our hearts causing irritability. Take what help she can get as far as calming this heart issue down. Maybe a different antibiotic would be less irritating. Also learning to control the herx may help.

So get the help she needs there and then contact her doc to see what to do next once she is out of the hospital.

It is probably just as well she stopped abx temporarily is she was herxing and miserable.

Don't worry...it won't slow her recovery. A really bad herx can be just too hard on the body. Like your wife, many of us have landed in the hospital with a herx!

Might be a good idea to contact her doctor?
Hope she'll feel better soon. Lyme is nasty! I'm sure she would agree.

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Tabby

I'm not a doctor and I don't know how serious your wifes heart is. But from what you've explained I've had the same thing except I didn't go to the hospital.

I went to my primary who happened to have an opening that day.

I would get out of there. Call you LLMD now and get his/her opinion.

Recently I had chest pains that woke me from a dead sleep. You know what my LLMD said....... It's common with lyme probably a muscle spasm.

It hurt so bad I couldn't move, or breath for half a minute. Finally I was able to sit up. What a scare.

You know what's really funny........ I would probably not know a heart attack if it hit me at this point. We'll mabybe I would.......

Herxing-my heart pounds and I have palps sometimes- I figure it's Lyme

When I herx past tolerable I back off meds for a day or two (like right now)

Hospitals-It's hard to get any rest there

ELISA-junk, junk,junk, need I go on?

I recall your wife had Lyme specific bands in her WB, didn't she?

Sorry if this is brief but I'm not doing so well right now.

janet

An echocardiogram would make you both feel safer.

Stop the biaxin and I bet the heart problems and anxiety will calm down. I discovered that biaxin and zithromax cause me to have palpitations - premature beats, skipped beats, etc. Also a pronounced increase in anxiety. Have wondered why I can't tolerate it. Then the other night I came across a link to a heart problems forum where I discovered prescribing information about this class of abx. They are contraindicated in people with prolonged QT intervals (and a couple of other heart problems I believe).

I wish these damned doctors would pay attention to what they're doing when they prescribe all this crap. They don't know what they're doing. They'll tell you the palpitations are probably herx symptoms. I don't think so.

Right now I'm herxing BAD on a third of a Minocin capsule and am having no palpitations at all.

My humble suggestion:
Until the biaxin can clear her system (can take a few days if I remember correctly), increase potassium and magnesium intake PLUS, klonopin can really help with the anxiety and arrhythmias.

(Sorry if the tone of this post is a little off. I'm so pissed off and disenchanted with the doctors I've been seeing over the last few months)