Cardiac Lyme symptoms

I just had the weirdest herx ever. My body physically crashed about 4:30 pm. Shortly around 6, my chest started getting tight, heart palps started, I had shortness of breath, and some pain in my neck/getting a little nauseous. Sounds like a heart attack. I'm convinced it was anxiety causing most of the symptoms. Normally anxiety is a big problem for me with Lyme, but evidently afyer upping that dose, anxiety can become an even bigger problem. For now, I've decided not to go to the ER, but instead been sipping on Burbor for a few hours.

Has this happened to anyone else? The heart stuff is a little scary. Herx all you want to in the joints, but leave my heart alone, Lyme!

i've been having chest/heart issues since mid-January. Took 2 weeks of being on Rifampin/Cipro when I had a major herx and it put me in the ER. Everything was fine but it scared the crap out of me. If your issues continue for any length of time its not a bad idea to see a cardiologist and let them go through their usual bevy of tests to ensure you are ok in that department. I'm going to be wearing a Holter Monitor for 2 weeks soon after having one for 1 day, having a stress test and an echocardiogram. Can't be too careful with issues in that area!

Rikky1, how long do you think I should wait before checking on things? I think it was mainly a heightened anxiety response to the upping of the dosage, but I don't really know. The only thing that I keep wondering about is the nausea for a few days, the constant chest tightness, and a little bit of pain.

I think I'm going to go and have thyroid bloodwork drawn and maybe an EKG or something. I think the LDN may have made me go hyperthyroid and that my thyroid medicine is too high. We'll see what happens.

Absolutely the worst herx I've ever had. The chest pain and tightness continued into today. I went to the urgent care clinic, and they wouldn't even see me. They directed me straight to the ER. So being as hard headed as I am, decided to go to another urgent care clinic instead of ER. (I'm not made of money.) The second clinic wasn't alarmed at all. They took thyroid bloodwork, and doubled my propanol dosage and sent me on my way. But today, I've just had the most awful knee pain, evidently anxiety that felt like a heart attack, feeling hot and clammy, heart palps, headache, super weak, coughing, irritable (Lyme rage as I call it). I ramped up the detox efforts as best as I could. Pinnella, hot bath, lemon water. Now to rest. I've had enough for one day. I drove 3 hours to be at home with my family instead of alone. Hopefully they can help make this herx seem not as bad.