randibear
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you know i've had that episode of high blood pressure.
well my gp sent me to a cardiologist and he ran a stress test, which he said was very good.
but i noticed he kept circling things on that heart printout sheet. then he scheduled this ecogram thingy today.
so i had it and he kept circling things on the printed pictures.
wth??? that's enough to scare me.
so why would he schedule an ecocardiogram after the stress test?
at one point i asked what's all that white stuff and he said "oh that's the pericardium"...ok....
and then the screen had all these red and blue areas. i shouldn't have looked. scared me.
ok, i'm very overweight now. i'm up to 200 and i'm only 5 feet. i've got to do something. i don't know why my weight is just going up and up, no matter what i do.
but my father, in fact, everyone in my family has heart problems and i'm getting worried.
anybody with heart problems on here?
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I went to the ER a couple of weeks ago w/chest pain. It was tentatively diagnosed as pericarditis, inflammation of the pericardium. If correct, I think it could have been a heart herx due to an ozone treatment I'd just done. I've had echocardiograms twice. The first time they found a congenital hole in my heart (PFO). I think the red color represent the oxygenated blood (after leaving the lungs) and the blue is the blood that's already circulated and is coming back to the lungs to be oxygenated again.
I don't really know, however, and that's just my guess.
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map1131
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All the testing says no, but I can't shake the feeling that my heart is effected. I've had periods of discomfort, but no history of high BP or anything that would get me into heavy duty testing for heart.
But I do worry about my ticker.
Pam
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