we have a horrible family history of heart disease.....and i've been good about stress tests ~ on the advice of my docs ~ oh and working in the cath lab at a hospital for 11 years ~ you kinda get to see it all ~ it's pretty cool!
so.....recently my family doc and i have been discussing my one leg that gets these incredible (in a bad way) muscle spasms and whether or not it's connected to my statin med......it's not, mainly because it would be both legs and other muscles (and we tested it - went off my statin for a week)
then i started with these jaw twinges and tightness and one of our cathing physicians ~ he refused to let me write my symptoms off ~ on the car accident a couple months ago......
which started the cycle of:: ekg, stress test, blah blah blah, etc. and they were all normal ~but~ he still felt like the symptoms meant something and now they have this new thingy - CTA of your chest (which insurance doesn't pay for, experimental)
it's pretty COOL! the machine circles around you, talks to you (take a deep breath, blow it out, take another, blow it out, take another, hold it....) takes about 6000 pics a minute of your heart at all angles
so i did all the testing he wanted, but was really focused on Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year ~~ i mean ~ come on ~ each and every test over the years has been negative ~~ so i just went about my business and life!
welp! then i got a call tonite ~ bummer dude! my CTA was positive!!! (oh and hey - when the doc calls you at home - BAD!)
WHAT?? to say i was shocked is a total understatement (not ME!) ~ but going to follow up on it and have a cath
~ yahoo!! my fellow employees get to cath me ~ can i lose some weight first?? !!
1/10/09 ETA: had my cath! woot!! i'm now the proud owner of 2 drug eluting stents!! :P blah
home now ~let's get back to knitting ~ huh!
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WOW, SUPER SCARY. My doc wants me to do that test too so now I will probably schedule soon. No problems but like you said family history is HORRIBLE! After Sharon's problems, I did another nueclear stress test, an ultrasound heart test but hadn't scheduled the CTA test. Guess I should.
I hope all is well with you, please let me know if there is anything I can do!!!
love you,
Kathie
WOW....I can't believe you are so up on all that stuff and still have to go through all of that. I will call and have that test done too.......better to be safe about all of this.
If there is anything I can do, let me know. You are always there to help all of us and I just loved your doctors when Kevin had the testing done.
Love you lots, Marie
Too much drama! Really happy to hear you came through with flying colors. God Bless. LOL Linda
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