Test Results
Wednesday August 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »My stress test came back completely normal.
My thyroid test came back completely normal.
My latest blood work all came back completely normal.
My pulse was a little low (56?), but that’s probably just because I’m super laid back.
My doctor was going to let me go with a clean bill of health, but I explained that my heart palpitations are random and intermittent. A clean stress test might simply mean that I was fine during the specific nine minutes that I was being tested. It is nice that the tests have come back normal, but that may not necessarily mean that I am problem-free.
To be on the safe side - as I like to be when it comes to something like my heart - I am going in tomorrow afternoon (Thursday) to be fitted with a Holter monitor (capital H?). As explained to me, the Holter is basically a small machine that I wear for 24 hours that will record my heart’s activity over an extended period of time. Hopefully (… i guess?) my heart acts up during those 24 hours and the doctors will be able to see what exactly is going on.
Then, and hopefully finally, I am going in for an echocardiogram on Tuesday… my birthday. They will ultrasound my heart to make sure that the muscle and valves and other hearty goodness is all in order. I reasonably expect both of these tests to come back normal, leaving me with no explanation for the random heart fluttering beyond a simple case of anxiety - or some other mental instability.
For the time being I will be taking an Aspirin-a-day. You know, to keep the doctor away.
Or is that Apples?
