Full Moon - Feb 14th - heart symptoms

Next full moon is due Feb. 14th and I've been having heart issues again for the past few days. Rapid irregular beating. Logged several today between 95 - 102 bpm. And I hadn't been doing anything other than sitting in a chair for an hour.

Stupid lyme.

Anyone else having similar issues....?

Yep, sucks to be us doesn't it?

I had such a high heart rate sitting in a recliner while talking to a friend on the phone the other night, that I was out of breathe just trying to say a few words here and there.

I absolutely understand what you said about your job. I resigned from mine this past October due to lyme symptoms and a lack of understanding from bosses and coworkers. Am now trying to make a living working from home.

I'm still doing essential oil as my antibiotic. However, I'm now taking 1 drop / 1x per day, on the week of a full moon. Then its three weeks off. Trying to kill the little buggers when they come out to play and yet, give my body a break to recover from any die-off.

EDTA: I also took a full strength Bayer asprin about 30 minutes ago with supper. Checking my heart rate again, it's now down to 65 - 75 bpm. Weird, eh?

Post Edited (sknight) : 2/11/2014 6:10:27 PM (GMT-7)

Thanks Trav..... I'll mention that to my doc. I know they said the last round of bloodwork showed high fibrinogen levels (makes the blood sticky). Is that the same thing you're talking about?

Also, I did text my naturopath re: the asprin and the resulting decrease in heart rate. I have an appt with her Thursday so, maybe she'll want to do some more bloodwork.

Will do. I wonder what, if anything, they can do (supplement wise) for high fibrinogen levels....? Enzymes, maybe....?

hypercoagulability was a huge issue for me too. Talk to your LLMD about proteases and digestive enzymes supplements like Serrepeptase (which we just now talked about in another thread ironically). This supplement targets pain and inflammation yes, but has a remarkable side affect of clearing the blood of the fibrins in blood and returning your coagulation to normal (this and proper detoxing almost eliminated my hypercoagulability issue.

Interesting... Fibrinogen levels go up during the post partum period and stay elevated for some time, it is why women have to get up and move around after giving birth to avoid blood stasis and blood clot formation. I believe it's protective in that respect to prevent hemmorhage. I have a 15 mth old, and a two year old, I and back to back pregnancies. I have major heart issues. I wonder if my fibrinogen stayed elevated?

I have similar issues, almost all the time, but more so around the full moon. I looked up last night and saw it was almost full, and thought... "oh great, dear lord give me strength"

Hi sknight

I did also have this issue. When I was having the rapid heart beats I found that if I ate - especially something salty my heart rate would go back down. We have to do so much leg work to figure out what is causing our symptoms!

It could be the fibrinogen or it could also be POTS. 100bpm is a high resting rate but as my cardiologist said it isn't 'that' high - if that makes you feel any better at all.

Hawthorne really helped calm my palpitations down. It will get better soon! My heart problems are all gone although they occasionally make a slight appearance near the full moon but that has not happened in a few months!

~beth

Ok so I'm having the same problems. What is the test for fibrinogen levels? Looking at my recent blood work could it be any of these? prothrombin time high 13.3, Haptoglobin high 232, Platelets high 492.? It sure would be nice to figure this out so we can start feeling better!

Disease invades the soft tissue. I find when I stay on medication improves a lot. Can get heart checked out just to be safe.

Pictureofhealth,
Are those results of yours? My husband has to take warfarin for the rest of his life, so I know something about prolonged prothrombin times. You should read this:
www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/prothrombin-time

and for the other two things that you mentioned, you can find some information on them the site: labtestsonline.org/
I used this site extensively as I was trying to piece all of my info together.

Here is the one on haptoglobin:
labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/haptoglobin/tab/test/