Man Ends up in ICU Due to Lyme Carditis

May 18, 2022

https://www.today.com/health/essay/lyme-carditis-lyme-disease-causes-rare-bacterial-infection-mans-heart

I ended up in the cardiac ICU. It was a rare complication of Lyme disease

I thought I was healthy — but when my heart rate dropped randomly, it seemed I’d need a pacemaker. Then a doctor suspected Lyme carditis.
I thought I was healthy so when I started to have signs of a heart block, I felt stunned that I had become so sick. I later learned that I had a rare complication of Lyme disease.

I thought I was healthy so when I started to have signs of a heart block, I felt stunned that I had become so sick. I later learned that I had a rare complication of Lyme disease. Courtesy Eric Miller

By Eric Miller, as told to Meghan Holohan

Eric Miller, 43, teaches principles of design and fabrication, maker classes and programming at a boarding school in Northeastern Ohio. As he started his new position last summer, he experienced a health crisis and landed him in the cardiac ICU with a dangerous arrhythmia. Doctors soon learned that he had Lyme carditis, a rare complication of Lyme disease. He shared his story with TODAY.

During employee orientation for my new job, I started feeling really rundown in the evenings. At first, I dismissed it as stress and nerves from starting a new career. (See link for article)

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