Met my cardiologist

[Further]

Nice guy, he went over the results from the stress test I took a while back and told me that they were borderline abnormal, and that that stress test is only 70% accurate, given my activity levels and lack of any other symptoms he wouldn't be concerned, but, my high blood pressure and family history have him wanting a imaging stress test.

Despite the run on sentence I have to agree with him.

However my insurance co. makes the decision   

[Razors Edge ★]

6 minutes ago, Further said:

Nice guy, he went over the results from the stress test I took a while back and told me that they were borderline abnormal, and that that stress test is only 70% accurate, given my activity levels and lack of any other symptoms he wouldn't be concerned, but, my high blood pressure and family history have him wanting a imaging stress test.

Despite the run on sentence I have to agree with him.

However my insurance co. makes the decision   

By any chance does your cardiologist have a financial stake in the company doing the imaging stress test?

[Longjohn ★]

1 hour ago, Further said:

Nice guy, he went over the results from the stress test I took a while back and told me that they were borderline abnormal, and that that stress test is only 70% accurate, given my activity levels and lack of any other symptoms he wouldn't be concerned, but, my high blood pressure and family history have him wanting a imaging stress test.

Despite the run on sentence I have to agree with him.

However my insurance co. makes the decision   

I think mine cost $6,600 and I paid $35 of it. I think my heart was damaged when I had the hernia surgery. It still works pretty good for an old man.

[smudge ★]

32 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

 I think my heart was damaged when I had the hernia surgery. 

Daaaannnng.... 

[MickinMD ★]

For me, the extra heart tests left me worry-free when I was doing strenuous stuff.

I was tremendously out of shape in 2011 and decided to get a bicycle and start riding for exercise - my Achilles tendons would get sore from 1.5 miles of walking.

I showed my family doctor a Garmin/Google maps red-line summary of a 1 mile walk where my heart rate surpassed 90% of max. going up a long hill.

He sent me to a cardiologist who did three different tests: the treadmill test, a radioactive dye study, and am imaging study of my heart valves.

I was told I was fine and when I began doing hills with the bike, I wasn't worried when the ride got tough.

The bike helped heal the Achilles tendons, which has suffered from decades of long distance running, including an operation for a torn tendon and phyiscal therapy for the other one.

[maddmaxx ★]