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8 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

all you want to do is eat.  

I have a stress test in about 2 hours.  Everyone keeps talking about food and it is everywhere around me.  One guy just offered to buy me a hero sub.  AHHHHHHH!

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Is it stressing you out?

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39 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

if your heart's ok you will probably run the machine into the ground.  If you're lucky they have a bike you can ride.  I've seen that in a couple of hospitals instead of that infernal treadmill.

Resting was in the 50's after I rode to the hospital. It took them about fifteen minutes to get the heart up high enough for the test.

They found 3 PVCs during the treadmill test. Diagnosis was that I most likely depleted my electrolyte level, was possibly not drinking enough and was at exhaustion. So, in other words a hypoglycemic event coupled with a bunch of bad things.  Was warned to drink, eat and chill the F out when my body says "Enough already"

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39 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

:mellow:  Not to be nosy, but why did you have to have a stress test?  I thought those were only given if you are suspected of having heart disease or something.

You seem to be in great shape.  I wouldn't have thought a stress test would be required for someone of your fitness level.

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5 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

You seem to be in great shape.  I wouldn't have thought a stress test would be required for someone of your fitness level.

I had two events of severe heart pain while riding.  The big one was chest pain and pain in between my scapulas. It was like someone was sitting on my chest and my bra felt like it was two sizes too small.  Scary.  Had to get a lift home, because I couldn't even pedal anymore.  My MD said he wanted me to get checked out. He was concerned due to being on MS meds for a decade, because the long term effects of those drugs are somewhat unknown.  

Athletes have heart attacks too.  

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6 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

They certainly do.  Sorry, I didn't know about your chest pains.  :(

Happened on a long ride last year.  Like a 50 mile CX ride with a decent amount of climbing.  The wind was particularly miserable too.  Worse than anything I have ever ridden in.  

The tech said that PVCs can be very painful at times.  Scary shit.  

I tryto not talk about my pain.  This, I could not just sluff off due to my age and medical condition.

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4 minutes ago, Pokey said:

Damn...that is scarey. We can't loose the QOM...be careful!

Thanks.  

I had a second heart event about a month and a half ago.  It wasn't as bad as the one last year.  Tightness in my chest I and just didn't feel right at all.  Had to turn around and ride to the bottom of the hill.  Personally, I think the aging process is catching up to me.  The one this year felt like it could have been heartburn, but it was painful enough to scare me.  

So, I got tested.  All is well, but i need to be more cautious about what I eat before a ride and how much to eat and drink during rides.  

Having a chronic condition and going hard is like walking a tight rope at times.  You have to keep everything perfectly balanced.  

Oh well, Game on.

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8 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

So, I got tested.  All is well, but i need to be more cautious about what I eat before a ride and how much to eat and drink during rides.  

Are you seeing a specialist (cardiologist) or just a general practitioner (internist)?  Chest pains like you are describing sound very alarming to me.  The entire family on my mother's side had heart disease and most died of heart failure or heart attacks.  Their symptoms sound similar to yours.  My uncle thought he was just having heartburn and was taking rolaids to stop the pain.  He had a sudden heart attack and died at 54 tears old.

Not to scare you, but I have seen a lot of stuff like this in my family.  If I were you, I would make sure I had an excellent cardiologist making these decisions on whether you have something serious or not.  

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55 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

Are you seeing a specialist (cardiologist) or just a general practitioner (internist)?  Chest pains like you are describing sound very alarming to me.  The entire family on my mother's side had heart disease and most died of heart failure or heart attacks.  Their symptoms sound similar to yours.  My uncle thought he was just having heartburn and was taking rolaids to stop the pain.  He had a sudden heart attack and died at 54 tears old.

Not to scare you, but I have seen a lot of stuff like this in my family.  If I were you, I would make sure I had an excellent cardiologist making these decisions on whether you have something serious or not.  

i am not seeing a cardiac specialist. My GP is very good though.  The stress test showed pretty normal behavior.  IMHO, last year's event was from hypoglycemia and it caused an arrythmia. I felt better after I went home and ate and drank.

My GP sees me again in month or so.  Until then, I going to fuel much more carefully.  My bottles will contain some kind of sports drink from here on out.

My blood tests do not test as though I am diabetic.  I think I just end up depleting myself during hard events.  My husband can go for so much longer without food, but I feel faint and weak without food.  Weird.

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I found this little tidbit of info tonight:

* Electrolyte imbalance. Electrolytes, such as potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, help trigger and conduct the electrical impulses in your heart. Electrolyte levels that are too high or too low can affect your heart's electrical impulses and contribute to arrhythmia development.
 

 

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1 minute ago, roadsue said:

Albuterol can affect electrolyte levels.  Do you take meds for bronchial/airway dilation?

No. just an MS med,an NSAID for inflammation as needed and a beta blocker since the accident for the adrenaline dump in my brain from accident stress.

I looked them all up and only found depletion of zinc.

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3 hours ago, Dirtyhip said:

Thanks.  

I had a second heart event about a month and a half ago.  It wasn't as bad as the one last year.  Tightness in my chest I and just didn't feel right at all.  Had to turn around and ride to the bottom of the hill.  Personally, I think the aging process is catching up to me.  The one this year felt like it could have been heartburn, but it was painful enough to scare me.  

So, I got tested.  All is well, but i need to be more cautious about what I eat before a ride and how much to eat and drink during rides.  

Having a chronic condition and going hard is like walking a tight rope at times.  You have to keep everything perfectly balanced.  

Oh well, Game on.

I hope you had the good sense to talk with the doctor about painful rectal itch while you were there!

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5 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

How is your heart, DH?

Healthy.  Normal.  

I do have a PVT.  Those are normal. 

No idea what was going on.  My heart appears to be fine now.  Honestly, I think I pushed into sort of hypoglycemic bonk.  My heart rhythms became weird on a very long beast-mode ride and I didn't eat or drink optimally    I have been wearing a monitor now.  If my heart acts strange, I will just check out what my watch says.  Cardiologist and GP both tell me that I am fine.  Stress test showed nothing remarkable.  

 

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On 4/5/2016 at 3:56 PM, Dirtyhip said:

all you want to do is eat.  

I have a stress test in about 2 hours.  Everyone keeps talking about food and it is everywhere around me.  One guy just offered to buy me a hero sub.  AHHHHHHH!

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Those are helpful co workers simply making sure that you will have enough stress to test.  Good friends all.

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We do those every couple years with our dive medical.  I just pretemnd I am the big. Blonde Russian dude in Rocky IV.

Last year was a new guy and when he found out I was a roadie and there for routine as opposed to a potential condition, he asked if I minded if we started into the test as opposed to the slowest speeds first.  I thought it would screw my test but he explained that (in our case) they don't care how long it takes to get to your target heart rate, but they just want to see how it functions at that level and how quick it drops back to a certain  percentage of your RHR.  I always thought I needed a slow climb to the level.   Who knew?  :dontknow:

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On 4/5/2016 at 9:00 PM, Dirtyhip said:

I had two events of severe heart pain while riding.  The big one was chest pain and pain in between my scapulas. It was like someone was sitting on my chest and my bra felt like it was two sizes too small.  Scary.  Had to get a lift home, because I couldn't even pedal anymore.  My MD said he wanted me to get checked out. He was concerned due to being on MS meds for a decade, because the long term effects of those drugs are somewhat unknown.  

Athletes have heart attacks too.  

I'll save you some doctor visits and expensive tests - it's the bra.  Toss the bra. Bras are unnatural and only cause problems.

Tom

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