Heart Palpitations

Well the good news is most of my symptoms have lessened a lot over the past few days or week (its hard to count time when you are taking it day by day). A few little aches here and there or tooth pain or something BUT they have lessened a lot Yay! All I have been taking is japanese knotweed in capsule form 3pills 3x a day and then 2 pills about an hour before bed, a probiotic, and occasionally Vitamin C and omega 3 if I remember.
However within the past 3 days I've noticed heart palpitations, not caused from anxiety - just random on/off throughout the day. And when I say palpitations I mean that sense where you can feel your heart pounding (like its loud) without an increase in heart rate. I don't think I have arrthymia/skipped beats or anything, and so far no chest pain. I'm wondering since I've cut back on meat and been flushing my system out by drinking lots of tea and water if the most likely cause of this is not getting enough iron?? I looked it up online and they said it could be caused by anemia so I'm going to try taking my Flinestone's vitamin (they are the best).
Thank you again, everyone for this forum. Also, I changed my probiotic to a better brand and those pains in my tummy/intestine or whatever they were have not come back since (knock on wood!).

Just curious what other members thoughts are on this. Also, if any members could suggest if they had other herbals that they were using that might help this.

I may also have co-infections with babeosis and bartonella.Just 18 more days until my ID appt and 26 for my LLMD appt.

Opugirl,

I know that the heart palpitations can be alarming. Do you have enough magnesium in your diet? I have heard that Borrelia sometimes strips the myelin sheath from the nerves. Dr. Burrascano has identified magnesium as a key supplement for Lyme patients.

Frankly, I disagree with those that would starve the patient of essential nutrients to starve the microbe. If you are likewise fearful of magnesium intake, some have suggested IV or transdermal magnesium to bypass the digestive system. Good luck with it.

Don

Jeepers hard enough to make your chest wall hurt **ouch. Ohhhhhhhh earthquakes, I felt my first one here in Delaware last year and it was terrifying! It was probably a magnitude of like 1.0 if that, but keep in mind DE is Flatter than my butt so it traveled pretty well. It was great, we were all in the top floor at my work and all our science glassware started rattling like crazy...with my 3 labmates... I was like "it can't be an earthquake, we're in DE..."
Of course growing up right outside of DC, I was like OMG - we're being attacked again by terrorists! I felt a little silly afterwards. :)

@ HEathersdad - I will check into a magnesium supplement. I'm trying to use up all of the supplements/vitamins I purchased before buying new ones. I did check my Flinestones vitamin and it only has 5% DV for magnesium. I did recently buy this green vitamin powder stuff that I have yet to use and see if that has magnesium in it - thanks for the tip

I had the heart palpitations from the age of 16 (I'm 33 now) and a rapid heartbeat (sometimes I go to 120 in rest, normal heartbeat is about 88-92/min) - they couldn't find a reason for it, maybe the chemo I had, maybe because 1 of my heartvalves that doesn't entirely close well (no prob according to the cardiologist: 'lots of people have it'?).

I think it's from the Bartonella, cause it's more frequent when I'm having a bad period. Then it beats even harder than it normally does when I have them. I feel like sometimes I skipp a beat too, for a moment I feel like everything stands still (then I start automatically singing that song 'heart skips a beat' )

I try not to give attention to it, although it's been scary too. It makes it hard to breathe normally sometimes.

I always forget to add the extra magnesium to my 'protocol'...

Lyme Disease can wreak havoc on your heart. I had heart palpitations on several occasions and for several different reasons. Sometimes your meds can bring them on as a side effect. Another time, I had mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation. Its a situations where the valves don't close all the way, and the blood would regurgitate. The cardiologist I was seeing at the time actually had severe lyme, so I was very lucky to find him. He explained it to me like this, "the lyme was like seaweed on the valves, and wasn't allowing them to close all the way." Luckily, it cleared up. Another time, I had a condition called costocondritis. Boy, it was painful and I felt like my heart was pounding thru my chest. Apparently it is very common in lyme because it is inflammation of the joints that connects each rib to the sternum. And we all know how lyme affects the joints....