(1) Those that feel like anxiety/stress. I don't know how to describe them, except perhaps tightness throughout the whole chest, and otherwise feeling anxious. I used to think that I had the pain because I was feeling under stress, but now I wonder if I might feel stressed as a result of the pain.
(2) Rib pain which can be intense, but fleeting. I am told that this sounds like Babesia.
(3) Relatively new pain at my sternum. Doc thinks it is acid reflux. I'm not sure, but I haven't taken the time to learn about this, so I don't know. It does seem to improve after a few weeks of Prevacid, so I'd bet she is right.
Don't mess with chest pain and write it off to Lyme. I don't worry about it because I checked out fine with a cardiologist a couple years ago, and nothing has really changed. Well, except perhaps for acid reflux.
You should talk to doc.
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from what I know, lyme can cause inflamation of the tissues around the heart.
Before my dgnosis, I went to the ER thinking I was having a heart attack, of course I wasn't...
Now after a month of trtmt, I still have dull ache in my heart, sternum and lungs. I was checked out by a cardiologist--heart is fine. Just the lyme causing inflammtion.
Two thoughts, my lld told me to keep taking my NSAID ketoprophen (like advil) to keep the swelling down around the heart.
Also, make sure you take your abx an hour before laying down as this may cause bad heartburn--feels like heart pain.
Some eat 1/2 meal then take abx, then the other 1/2 meal to keep the abx down deep-not in esophogas.
Good luck!
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Karl, I started off with a pretty srong chest pain in one spot...the center of the lower rib cage (maybe a bit to my right) Continuous. Told it was stress at first. then they checked the heart (incl ultrasound-OK) When things got unstable in the area (glands?) my PCP an a Lyme panel & it was ++. The pain 'moves' now, w/fibromyasia-like symptoms in stomach,intestins. Sometimes it's gone. Not the tiredness, though! Told it's all related to the CNS Lyme. Are you on abx? Which kind?
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I had chest pain to left of sternum, very sharp. At times radiated left, also painful ribs, soft tissue.
LLMD says that this type of chest pain is common w. Lyme: spirochetes like to hang out in the nerve roots in the spine and inflame nerve that wraps around rib cage, which ends on either side of the sternum.
DO make sure you get appropriate cardiac tests if on left, and check w. your Dr.
But, yes, many of us here have had chest pain, incl. the very sharp kind, deep, focused, painful. Common Lyme sx.
If you do a search on "chest pain" and/or costochondritis you will see many more of us!
Make sure to be checked out by a Dr. though.
Take care, hope you are feeling better.
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Co-infections suchs a Babs can also cause chest pain.
Do a search here, lots of good tid bits.
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I have frequent chest pain. One doc told me i have Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and it could cause the pain. My LLMD told me I have a heart murmur and the Lyme can cause the pain.
I get crushing pain in the left side of my chest and it spreads to my neck, back, left arm and sometimes to the right side. My EKG was normal (about 3 years ago).
The pain I have mimics heart attack pain. Gets worse with physical activity and I get shortness of breath with it. LLMD said I'll have to have an echocardiogram at some point in the future.
It could also be due to stress, using my inhaler (not too often), heartburn which I get frequently or maybe a pinched nerve. I don't know. I do know that it is frightening at times.
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We get some occasional heart pain over here. There are 3 of us.
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I had chest pains too. I do understand the post saying you may have different types of pain.
I also had heart pressure, almost like a light, but constant pain, non stop.
Then, rib pains (like more or less arthritic pain), more exterior, not always in the middle of the chest.
Then I had stabbing pains, acute pain, comes and goes, that was in the heart (or muscle).
And a little under, but close, yes, stomach pain and/ or liver pain (more widespread than centered).
All different pains.
They all appeared with my lyme/ or die off symptoms (except for stomach pain).
They are all gone for the last weeks. You do feel the difference specially when heart pressure goes out. You feel just light and you forget you have a heart. Something impossible to forget when you keep having symptoms.
I think some of my heart symptoms were related to a probable babesia infection, as the constant pressure just vanished like magic after Riamet. Other symptoms were not as constant, so I can't tell when they disappeared...
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