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OT cardiology appointment
Given I mentioned it, I thought some would like to hear an update.
It was as I expected, more tests are needed. I suppose before I went there was either the hope that it would be declared normal, or at least an acceptable variation of normal, but no, it's definitely abnormal and needs further investigating, I'm to get a monitor to wear for 48 hours tomorrow and do a stress echo, the first available appointment for that was 4 weeks away. Tips I've picked up here were useful, and I watched the doctor to see her response, sense of urgency etc. the feeling I got was that there is a small risk of an acute event occurring in the short term and she gave me details of what to do and when to call the clinic. She seemed concerned to get to the bottom of it as the long term affect on my heart of it behaving as it is now is not good for it in the long term and checking through medications, lifestyle factors etc there are no causes there. Jamie, I'm so grateful for you posting about what happened to your husband, it really helped me pick out events that are significant, getting the EKG done last week was purely based on having spotted it as a recommendation from another test, not symptoms, current or historical, now I realise I have both. Cheers Anne |
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OT cardiology appointment
I'm so glad that you are having it looked after. Hopefully it will be
nothing, and if not nothing, something easily treatable. Please keep us in the loop. Sending happy heart thoughts your way. -- Jamie Clark "Anne Rogers" wrote in message . .. Given I mentioned it, I thought some would like to hear an update. It was as I expected, more tests are needed. I suppose before I went there was either the hope that it would be declared normal, or at least an acceptable variation of normal, but no, it's definitely abnormal and needs further investigating, I'm to get a monitor to wear for 48 hours tomorrow and do a stress echo, the first available appointment for that was 4 weeks away. Tips I've picked up here were useful, and I watched the doctor to see her response, sense of urgency etc. the feeling I got was that there is a small risk of an acute event occurring in the short term and she gave me details of what to do and when to call the clinic. She seemed concerned to get to the bottom of it as the long term affect on my heart of it behaving as it is now is not good for it in the long term and checking through medications, lifestyle factors etc there are no causes there. Jamie, I'm so grateful for you posting about what happened to your husband, it really helped me pick out events that are significant, getting the EKG done last week was purely based on having spotted it as a recommendation from another test, not symptoms, current or historical, now I realise I have both. Cheers Anne |
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