i am having problems with my heart, been in the ER, but the doctors here
do not know much, as they think PD is all in our minds?
i will hopefully not drop dead before i can get to KC, doctors,
sometimes my heart will speed up to 170 beats per minute, and stay that way
for several minutes, then i take a sinemet and it slows down...
but it must be looked at soon, both my brother and my late father had pace makers... my grandpa and uncles and grandma on fathers sde drop dead from heart attacks....
parkinsons disease and heart problems - i was told go hand in glove?
is pd a heart prob or what? anyone?

http://pdcaregiver.org/PD_Affects_Heart.html

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_ev...son_090400.htm

Loss of norepinephrine-producing nerves throughout the heart was found in the nine Parkinson's patients who also had orthostatic hypotension. However, most of the Parkinson's disease patients without orthostatic hypotension also had evidence of decreased sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart. The sympathetic nervous system controls blood pressure, pulse rate, perspiration, and many other automatic responses to stress. Since norepinephrine and dopamine are part of the same family of chemicals, called catecholamines, the new finding suggests that whatever causes the loss of dopamine-producing nerve terminals in the brain also causes the loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart.

The number of sympathetic nerve terminals was normal in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a disorder which often resembles Parkinson's disease and is characterized by severe orthostatic hypotension. Checking for loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart might therefore help physicians distinguish between Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy.