This should be a required course for cardiologists especially in Oregon where they know nothing about Lyme disease. Even after telling the cardiologist you have a positive western blot ,and you're in 2nd degree heart block , and you are wondering if maybe a longer course of antibiotics might be helpful other than the single dose IV antibiotic you received when getting the pacemaker ,which by the way gave me an extreme Herxheimer reaction right in the Cath lab. The cardiologist's reaction was "I don't treat Lyme disease and I know no one who does" . Being that one of the leads failed I thought treating the Lyme might be a good option.
This should be a required course for cardiologists especially in Oregon where they know nothing about Lyme disease. Even after telling the cardiologist you have a positive western blot ,and you're in 2nd degree heart block , and you are wondering if maybe a longer course of antibiotics might be helpful other than the single dose IV antibiotic you received when getting the pacemaker ,which by the way gave me an extreme Herxheimer reaction right in the Cath lab. The cardiologist's reaction was "I don't treat Lyme disease and I know no one who does" . Being that one of the leads failed I thought treating the Lyme might be a good option.