@smudges I guess they call it a procedure not surgery? I’ve known I am high risk for cardiac problems even without my mom just having this valve problem. It is amazing she got to 80 until finally needing some serious medical intervention.
An acquaintance of mine through a car club just wrote yesterday on facebook that he had some symptoms and wound up getting a stent. I think he is a little younger than me. He said he thought the nurses were surprised he was so young and having heart trouble, but I seriously doubt they were surprised, it is not uncommon for 50 somethings to have serious heart issues. He had no history of high cholesterol. He seemed shocked he would have a cardiac problem.
I asked him if he had low vitamin D and he responded that he takes D supplements, which means nothing. That is commonly the response I get when I ask, people seem to not differentiate between taking D and actually finding out if they are low in D. His calcium score was 82, so now I am curious to see what my score was? I don’t remember it that way. I remember reading 10% block right main artery or something like that? I don’t count on my memory for it, I need to pull the paper.
I have been really tired, especially during exercise, but I am under tremendous stress right now. I went to get a stress test, and stopped before they wanted me too, but they said everything is fine. Usually after a stress test I feel like shit for three days, and I am tired of that, it seems unnecessary. When you are young they push your heart to a crazy number, and it takes forever to get there. I always feel like I need a blood test for heart damage afterwards, so this time I said I wanted to stop when it was getting really hard to get my heart rate higher. Of course, we all know stories of people who died three weeks after a stress test. My muscles are hurting a lot too, I started taking statins again, but it seemed ok initially, I don’t know if it is related. Totally sucks, I have no idea what is going on, and likely a doctor won’t eaither. I probably should get a blood test for kidney and muscle.