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Topic: Heart and Brain

krautz33
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Member # 25693

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My symptoms seem to move from heart to brain. Two weeks ago brain fog and lack of balance. Last week heart palputations and skipping beats. This week I am back to brain fog and loosing balance. Is this normal.

Krautz

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Starfall1969
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 17353

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My symptoms seem to hop around too. One week they'll be heart and air hunger, the next more visual, then maybe another week GI related. Don't know if it's normal or just me.

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Keebler
Honored Contributor (25K+ posts)
Member # 12673

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Krautz,

Sadly, yes, very typical. This is one of the distinguishing patterns that most regular doctors simply cannot understand. But it is well documented about lyme literate doctors.

Whatever is going on, be sure that your support system is in place with supplements and good self-care. Liver support is the most vital and that affects everything else, too.

Magnesium supplements should help normalize heart rhythm.

Fish oil can help with the brain fog; so can turmeric/curcumin.

Regarding balance, lyme (and other infections) do affect the ears in many different ways. However, sometimes, certain medicines can contribute to that zith, mino and biaxin are the most likely. If you have new balance issue and are on any of those, you could ask your LLMD to switch.

Even acetaminophen can harm the ears system as it is hard on the liver and results in higher total toxic load. Liver support often helps. That is discussed below. You might save this thread to your computer file for easy reference:

http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=065801

Topic: TINNITUS: Ringing Between The Ears; Vestibular, Balance, Hearing with compiled links - including HYPERACUSIS

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http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/77325

HEART: To everyone with cardiac symptoms please read !

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http://www.angelfire.com/biz/romarkaraoke/whento.htm

When to Suspect Lyme - by  John D. Bleiweiss, M.D.

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http://www.ilads.org/lyme_disease/B_guidelines_12_17_08.pdf

Advanced Topics in Lyme Disease (Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines for Lyme and Other Tick Borne Illnesses

Dr. Burrascano's Treatment Guidelines (2008) - 37 pages

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As important as any supplements, sections regarding self-care:

Go to page 27 for SUPPORTIVE THERAPY & the CERTAIN ABSOLUTE RULES

and also pages 31-32 for advice on a safe, non-aerobic exercise plan and physical rehabilitation.
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This is included in Burrascano's Guidelines, but you may want to be able to refer to it separately, too:

http://www.lymepa.org/Nutritional_Supplements.pdf

** Nutritional Supplements in Disseminated Lyme Disease **

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Important information about treatments options and support measures, supplements and self-care:

http://tinyurl.com/6lq3pb (through Amazon)

THE LYME DISEASE SOLUTION (2008)

- by Kenneth B. Singleton , MD; James A. Duke. Ph.D. (Foreword)

You can read more about it here and see customer reviews.

Web site: www.lymedoctor.com

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http://www.tillotsoninstitute.com/important-herbs/turmeric-root-curcuma-longa.html

TURMERIC ROOT (Curcuma longa)

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

PubMed Search:

Turmeric - 1517 abstracts

Curcumin - 3176 abstracts

Curcumin, pain - 25 abstracts

Curcumin, inflammation - 291 abstracts

Curcumin, adrenal - 18 abstracts

Curcumin, cardiac - 63 abstract

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19540859

Xu Y, Lin D, Li S, Li G, Shyamala SG, Barish PA, Vernon MM, Pan J, Ogle WO.

Curcumin reverses impaired cognition and neuronal plasticity induced by chronic stress.

Neuropharmacology. 2009 Sep;57(4):463-71.

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http://tinyurl.com/y8bd9k2

Curcumin Prevents Some Stress-Related Changes

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lyme in Putnam
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 11561

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I've had both at the same time. Sometimes one at a time, my brain stuff was pretty much constant. I was put on a beta blocker with the heart stuff. Sometimes it went through the beta blocker. Good luck.

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He took u to it, He'll you through

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