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Well this ol'boy went and completed a no treadmill stress test today. Never knew they had such a thing.
Its all done by IV injection, where they get your heart beat up until its racing pretty good, all the while you're laying down. Now I don't know about the heart, but the rest of the body ended up in pretty good shape
There were three ladies (nurses) and the Doc in there. One nurse administered the IV stuff, one controlled some kind of monitor and the other politely shaved my chest, then wired me up like I was heading off to Mars. She told me she would be taking pictures using some kind of wand, evidently ultra-sound.
Then the IV started to flow. They kept asking me if I felt my heart racing. Honestly, I didn't think it was appropriate to say to the Doc, that the young lady hugging me with that wand just might do it.
So they kept asking me, "Feel your heart racing yet?" Nope...….
Then once it hit some number I heard them say was 32, the Doc said, "Turn it up to 40!"
OMG...……. I could hear my heart beat in my ears!!! Yeah, I could feel it in the chest too, and it wasn't from that young nurse hugging me with the wand!
Evidently they got what they wanted/needed and then they administered the "calm the heart down" IV. That worked well. The whole process was about an hour.
Doc said a couple irregular heart beats, then said something about having to wear some monitor for 48hrs.
Trying to get this old boy back in shape.
Its all done by IV injection, where they get your heart beat up until its racing pretty good, all the while you're laying down. Now I don't know about the heart, but the rest of the body ended up in pretty good shape
There were three ladies (nurses) and the Doc in there. One nurse administered the IV stuff, one controlled some kind of monitor and the other politely shaved my chest, then wired me up like I was heading off to Mars. She told me she would be taking pictures using some kind of wand, evidently ultra-sound.
Then the IV started to flow. They kept asking me if I felt my heart racing. Honestly, I didn't think it was appropriate to say to the Doc, that the young lady hugging me with that wand just might do it.
So they kept asking me, "Feel your heart racing yet?" Nope...….
Then once it hit some number I heard them say was 32, the Doc said, "Turn it up to 40!"
OMG...……. I could hear my heart beat in my ears!!! Yeah, I could feel it in the chest too, and it wasn't from that young nurse hugging me with the wand!
Evidently they got what they wanted/needed and then they administered the "calm the heart down" IV. That worked well. The whole process was about an hour.
Doc said a couple irregular heart beats, then said something about having to wear some monitor for 48hrs.
Trying to get this old boy back in shape.