Lyme Disease Can Be Fatal – Beware of Lyme Heart Attacks!
A Heart Attack may cause some or all of these symptoms:
- Pain, pressure, fullness, discomfort or squeezing in the center of the chest
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Stabbing chest pain
- Radiating pain to shoulder(s), neck, back, arm(s) or jaw
- Pounding heartbeats (palpitations) or feeling extra heartbeats
- Upper abdominal pain
- Nausea, vomiting or severe indigestion
- Sweating for no apparent reason
- Dizziness with weakness
- Sudden extreme fatigue
- Panic with feeling of impending doom
The pain is quite distinct.
One person has described it as: “a heavy, strangulating, suffocating experience-far more intense than anything like indigestion, chest wall injuries, pleurisy or spasms of the esophagus that you are familiar with.
The pain may seem to start under the breastbone, on the left side of the chest, and sometimes radiates out to other places: throat, neck, jaw, left shoulder and arm and, occasionally, on to the right side.
There are several different types of heart attacks but even “angina”, the mildest form of heart attack , is an intense, scary episode. But with rest and calm (or by placing nitroglycerin or another kind of nitrate under the tongue), angina attacks usually go away in about 15 minutes or so. If they last longer than that, go to the hospital and have a thorough check up. Long-lasting angina attacks may be the prelude to more severe heart attacks.
For more information on the symptoms of heart attacks go to: http://holisticonline.com/remedies/Heart/heart_attack_identifying.htm
I have the misfortune of suffering with Lyme myocarditis and I will tell you from experience that it is the most terrifying aspect of my disease.
The attacks come without warning, even in from the depths of deep sleep, and ER doctors look at me like a crazy person because I don’t show signs of typical heart disease.
Don’t take a chance with your heart!
Lyme disease can cause myocarditis, and heart muscle disease.
Lyme is a multisystem disorder that can attack any or every organ in the human body, causing unique infections from organ to organ. Unfortunately, absolute proof would require a biopsy of the infected tissue and the heart can only be studied after death.
However, recent studies using rhesus monkeys by Mario Phillip from Tulane University verify this unique phenomenon by demonstrating that the spirochetes change their genetic code by altering their proteins.
According to Pub Med, a study was conducted at the University of Austria in Vienna that verified Lyme disease as a cause of chronic heart muscle disease. Read about it here.
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November 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Hello Jim, I was searching out the transdermal protocal, and came upon your information here….that you have so kindly posted. Of course, very sick I am…..with Lyme disease. I do have heart problems, which I know can be attributed to this illness. It kind of frightens me, living alone. Been on enough ambulance rides and in ER’s. Please tell me that the MMS is helping you. I am as desperate, as everyone else is…in finding relief.
The MMS has arrived, and now I will need to order the DMSO.(if that is what it is, will need to click back later)Will explore further the Yahoo group. Keep discovering more info, but not yet my answer. I have heard that a man used two cloves garlic daily, hot baths and cayenne along with ginger. Another, coconut oil in theraputic dosage, and was told it breaks the cysts barrier. Any info, giving a glimmer of hope…..would be greatly appreciated. May we surive and get well. Love…:)
September 12th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
How in the world did I miss that?
February 18th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
I have been having the exact same symptoms, and neither my Lyme Specialist nor my Cardiologist seem to know what’s going on or how to address it. What did you end up doing???
March 7th, 2010 at 4:38 am
Great posting
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:15 am
now, i am suffering from bad indigestion and sometimes it is painful too.~;`
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November 3rd, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I almost had a heart attack at 19, I was given anti arrythmic meds to slow my heart rate down from 200+ I can not get my dr to give me a referral for a cardiologist to save my life… Its been 4 yrs since that one of many more horrific experiences. Every doctor thinks I’m crazy, and army drs are the worst.
November 15th, 2011 at 11:42 am
I appreciate your comment Jennifer – but don’t give up! There are some really great doctors out there…
Blessings,
Jenna
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