Posted 7/30/2012 11:55 PM (GMT 0)
Hey, last week I had what felt like a heart attack and herx at the same time after infusing maybe 2cc of Cefotaxime. (in the Rocephin family).
It was the scariest physical experience I've EVER had!!!!
What's weird is I've been on Cefotaxime before with no problems. But I just came off a 4 month drug holiday. (no abx) It was the beginning of the second week of restarting. And go figure, on the 4th of July (herx #1 with severe body pain). Took a week to recover, then tried it again on the 16th (herx #2). It always starts with visual aura, then chest pain, profuse sweating, mid/low back pain, blurred vision, feeling like your going to pass out, hand numbness and tingling (from hypoventilation) and contraction of hands and fingers. And no, I didn't call 911. Couldn't, my hands didn't work! And I was all alone. Yikes.
If only I could have had and EKG within a few minutes. I would have provided some great evidence of the serious affects of Lyme on heart muscle.
My Lyme doctor had never heard of that happening before, but I brought it up in my Lyme support group and 2 others had had that experience.
Anyone experience this before? And what did you did? call 911?? I should have.
BTW - I kind of figured the 4th was probably my Lyme cycle time, which is really helpful to know. But the even worse Herx was 12 days later. ????? Which of the co-infections like the heart?