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Can't load the med page- I have some questions about heart involvement - I have been having periods of high heart rates. The worse was last summer when I a couple of periods of up to 4 to 5 days where my rates would go as high a 120 while just laying in bed - exhausting. These have become less severe but still fighting with them - January 04 had stress test and echo that was great - Have been a athlete most of my life - Generally my resting rate is 51 upon am. waking. I have lyme with 3 co-infections, bab, bart, ehri. I was treated with doxy 4 weeks and the heart issue almost went away - could start getting some exercise with normal recovery heart rates, feeling OK. I am now being treated for the co-infections with Zith/mal. The heart issues has surfaced again, heart rates are about 30 beats per min higher than normal. Last night again while just laying around my heart started pounding and went up 95. Are some of the ab better fro getting at the heart involvement better than others or is this the co-infection acting up? I had a couple of EKGs a couple of months ago during the high rates but nothing showed up as being an issue. I do thinks that over the last year my heart has taken a good hit from all of this. How doe one know that real damage is occurring. Have had some good heart jumps but nothing that is continuous. Posts: 582 | From milwaukee wi | Registered: May 2005
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I see "Medical" crashed again. That place gets loads of traffic.
John, as you get deeper into your babs treatment, hopefully some of those heart issues resolve. In our case it did. Jess had loads of chest pain, shortness of breath, heart murmur. In our case it was a combo of lyme and babs, but resolved with the babs tx. I's all cleared up.
Extra magnesium wouldn't hurt either. We used the magnesium citrate from Wal-Mart [nothing but the best ], plus if your constipated from the abx, it'll fix that as well ! Lot's of folks on here have had the same issues.
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Sounds just like my babs herx many years ago. I had to begin taking atenolol for the heart palps and tachycardia. I'm still taking it. Be sure your dr knows about the heart rate.
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], plus if your constipated from the abx, it'll fix that as well ! Lot's of folks on here have had the same issues.
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