Heart Attack Support Group
Heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. It occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death and scarring of the local heart tissue.
I met with my cardiologist back at the end of July for a 6 month check-up and everything seems fine, BP was 120/80 and he said my EKG looked even better than the previous one I had done in January. He scheduled a stress test for me in January, 2015 - about 15 1/2 months after my heart attack. Is this the typical time frame for an initial stress test? Also going to have blood work done at that time as well. To be honest, I'm not really concerned about the stress test. I go to the gym 3-4 days a week (treadmill at 4 mph with an incline of 12 for 28 minutes, elliptical for 20 minutes with resistance of 8, 9, 10, and stationary bike for 16 minutes at resistance 5, 6, 7, 8) Just curious about why the test is taking place so long after the HA. When have the rest of you had stress tests? Thanks.
hard in the last couple of minutes. The doc told me he wanted to get my
heart rate above a level that I would reach during my workouts.The whole
test was 12 or 14 minutes and it was really challenging in the last 2 minutes when my heart rate reached 150.
With your workout routine you'll have no trouble at all.
Vic