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Shania Twain on Performing After Lyme Disease Battle: ‘It Would Have Killed Me’ to Never Sing Again

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/shania-twain-performing-lyme-disease-150007640.html

Shania Twain on Performing After Lyme Disease Battle: ‘It Would Have Killed Me’ to Never Sing Again

Jeff Nelson
People

Shania Twain is back in the saddle after a health battle.

After wrapping her Rock This Country Tour in 2015, the Nashville icon took some time off to focus on family — but she was also silently dealing with vocal cord problems.

“I was on a long sabbatical, and my son [Eja, 18, with ex Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange] was getting older. I love being a full-time mom, but I started thinking, ‘What am I going to do when I have an empty nest?’ I had a problem with my voice; I was avoiding doing something about it,” Twain explains in the new issue of PEOPLE.

“As my son got more independence, I had more time to start focusing on my voice and I put all my energy into that,” Twain, 54, adds.

The Grammy winner then learned that her problems with her voice were caused by Lyme disease.

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“When I realized that I could barely sing at all anymore, I was like, ‘I’m humiliating myself. I can’t get out there and do this. I have to stop until I figure it out.’ I thought that it was just fatigue or burnout,” she reflects. “But no — Lyme disease commonly affects the nerves. When I discovered a glimpse of hope, I ran with that.”

After seeking medical help, undergoing open-throat surgery and strengthening her vocal cords, Twain returned in 2017 with her fifth album Now — her first in 15 years. In 2018 she hit the road for a triumphant comeback tour, the “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” singer launched her “Let’s Go!” Las Vegas residency at the Zappos Theater last December.

And Twain proved she’s still got it last week when she performed at the American Heart Association‘s Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection fashion show in New York City.

“Women’s health has become much more of my own priority; you have a lot of realizations as you start getting older,” she says. “Awareness is everything. Heart health is something that a lot of women do take for granted. You would never expect the high rate of women that are affected by heart disease — it is the highest killer of a disease in women, which I would have never guessed.”

With her own health crisis under control, the singer-songwriter is thrilled to be back in the studio and onstage.

“It would have killed me not to be able to ever sing again,” she says. “I wasn’t going to let my life be over if I wasn’t going to be able to sing again,  but I would have been very sad and I would have mourned that forever. But it is a great love of mine and a passion — that’s what got me back on stage again, because I could. Now I have more appreciation for it than ever.”

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Lyme

Ink to End Lyme 2020 Isthmus Tattoo

http://lymewarrior.us/ink-to-end-lyme-2020  Go Here to Donate

Visit Isthmus Tattoo on Feb 20 for an awesome day of tattooing for Lyme Disease!

Ink to End Lyme 2020

Ink to End Lyme is a national event in which tattoo shops donate a day to Lyme research.

Last year we raised $18,800 for the amazing research of Eva Sapi at the University of New Haven!

How it works: Tattoo shops host flash days, auctions, or a variety of other events with proceeds benefiting research for a cure or improved treatment during February 2020.

If you are a tattoo shop interested in participating email lymewarriornonprofit@gmail.com
Download a flyer here to take to your local tattoo shop!

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Over 427,000 people are being diagnosed with Lyme Disease annually.

Help us find a cure for those living with this disease.

 

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Activism, Lyme

Dr. Jason West – The Real Cause of Lyme Disease & The Use of Ozone Therapy

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Dr. Jason West – The Real Cause of Lyme Disease & the Use of Ozone Therapy

Dr. West states that he almost always sees improvement on patients using ozone therapy.

Dr. West supports the mechanisms of the body to fight lyme disease. Many of these include natural treatments like ozone therapy and UBI. But they do not work without the surrounding pillars that need to be in place. Natural treatments for lyme disease must be accompanied by lifestyle change.  He does not exclude the use of antibiotics.  We covered multiple topics, including:

  • Is alternative medicine becoming the NEW conventional?
  • How can patients become empowered with education?
  • What is the underlying cause of Lyme disease?
  • What are the standard treatments for Lyme disease and how is the West Clinic totally different?

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/12/04/ozone-ten-pass-lyme-msids-treatment-in-ca/

I’ve used ozonated olive oil to help heal after MOHS surgery for skin cancer:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/02/dmso-msm-for-lyme-msids/  (Scroll down to the picture in the video of the gaping hole under my eye.  I was told I would need 2 cosmetic surgeries.  I attribute the healing to the surgery which removed the cancer and the ozonated olive oil with a speedy recovery which made it possible to not need further surgery)

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Lyme, Treatment

Lyme Disease & Heart Transplantation: Presentation of a Clinical Case and a Literature Review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6992363/

. 2019; 26(3): 173–180.
PMCID: PMC6992363
PMID: 32015672

Language: English | Lithuanian

Lyme disease and heart transplantation: presentation of a clinical case and a literature review

Audrius Aurelijus Pilypas,1 Giedrutė Raišelienė,2 and Jurgita Valaikienė3
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Abstract

Background.

Lyme disease, the most common anthropozoonosis, is a transmissible natural focal infection affecting various organs and systems. Also known as Lyme borreliosis, it is caused by Borrelia spirochetes, which are distributed by ticks of the genus Ixodes. Early diagnosis is difficult due to frequent occurrence of atypical symptoms, unnoticed tick bites, the absence of migratory erythematous lesions, and symptoms occurring during the non-tick season. If not diagnosed and treated in time, dissemination of the infection occurs and various complications develop since borrelias damage not only the skin but also the nervous system, joints, and, in rare cases, the heart and eyes.

Materials and methods.

This article presents a clinical case of Lyme borreliosis-induced myocarditis, which led to the development of dilated cardiomyopathy and, consequently, urgent cardiac transplantation. According to our data, this is one of the first described cases of this complication in the world.

Results and conclusions.

When diagnosed in time and treated properly, the prognosis of Lyme myocarditis is usually good. In most cases, the atrioventricular block disappears within 1–2 weeks of antibiotic treatment and the implantation of a temporary pacemaker is rarely needed. In those rare cases of a chronic Borrelia burgdorferi infection, dilated cardiomyopathy may develop; thus if a sudden atrioventricular block occurs, the physician should be vigilant and perform the necessary tests to exclude the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

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**Comment**

When you consider how many people are turned away on a daily basis due to negative testing you begin to see that stating this is “rare,” is a bit premature.  So many are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.

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Heart Issues, Lyme, research

Lyme Carditis Presenting As Sick Sinus Syndrome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32007907/

2020 Jan 25;59:65-67. doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2020.01.007. [Epub ahead of print]

Lyme carditis presenting as sick sinus syndrome.

Gazendam N1, Yeung C1, Baranchuk A2.

Abstract

Lyme disease, a tickborne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, can affect cardiac tissue causing Lyme carditis. Patients with Lyme carditis most commonly present with varying degrees of atrioventricular block and rarely with sick sinus syndrome. A previously healthy 22 year-old male presented with syncope (fainting). His 2 week Holter monitor showed sinus pauses of 6.5 and 6.8 s. Lyme serology, including Western blot, was positive. A stress test, completed after 8 days of intravenous antibiotics for Lyme carditis, revealed no conduction abnormalities. He was discharged on 3 weeks of oral antibiotics and had no conduction abnormalities on subsequent follow-up.

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**Comment**

I hope someone is doing a lengthy follow-up on this young man.  Three weeks of antibiotics in someone with Lyme carditis isn’t enough.  This is a great example of patients not being followed throughout time which would pick up reoccurring/relapsing symptoms.

Sick sinus syndrome doesn’t have anything to do with the sinuses, but rather consists of a group of heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias) in which the heart’s natural pacemaker (sinus node) doesn’t work properly.

The sinus node is an area of specialized cells in the upper right chamber of the heart that controls the rhythm of your heart. Normally, the sinus node produces a steady pace of regular electrical impulses. In sick sinus syndrome, these signals are abnormally paced.

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The heart rhythms of a person with sick sinus syndrome can be too fast, too slow, punctuated by long pauses — or an alternating combination of these rhythm problems. The syndrome is relatively uncommon, but the risk of developing it increases with age.

Many people with sick sinus syndrome eventually need a pacemaker to keep the heart in a regular rhythm.

Symptoms

Most people with sick sinus syndrome initially have few or no symptoms. In some cases, symptoms come and go.

When they occur, sick sinus syndrome signs and symptoms might include:

  • Slower than normal pulse (bradycardia)
  • Fatigue
  • Dizziness or lightheadedness
  • Fainting or near fainting
  • Shortness of breath
  • Chest pains
  • Confusion
  • A sensation of rapid, fluttering heartbeats (palpitations)

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sick-sinus-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20377554

Dr. Neil Spector writes about his heart troubles due to Lyme.  He required a heart transplant and pace-maker:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/23/video-dr-neil-spector/

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/10/when-lyme-hurts-your-heart-warning-signs-solutions/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/17/lyme-carditis-heart-block-other-complications-of-ld/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/03/heart-problems-tick-borne-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/21/diagnosis-treatment-of-lyme-carditis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/02/22/new-lyme-cme-course-available-lyme-carditis-more-than-blocked-beats/  Course for doctors to become educated.

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Lyme, research