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morning all ,hope you all well and have a lovley day ,
well we went for a cheack up at hospital yesterday with my hubby cardio doc ,hubby has a mitral valve replacment and a pm has had them just over 15 months ,as mentioned in previous post he has been having some cheast pain he had a strees ecg yesterday while we were at hospital and only managed 1 min as out of breath an felt faint ,
now the cardiologest has orderd a test in 3 weeks time were they inject him with somthing to make heart work quicker to fool it into thinking its exersizing has any one else had this test sorry i carnt rember what it was called and is it safe to have with a pm and then still might have to have another angiogram depending on these results please advise

3 Comments

Stress test

by janetinak - 2009-11-20 03:11:50

I had one of these stress test with the injection (IV) to test the heart's response. Of course there are risks to everything but this is a frequent test for people like us who for one reason or the other can't do a regular test. Well, anyhow, I am 100% paced & it was easy. Told my doc a lot of stuff needed to know. I am sure you'll get a lot of responses with others experience on this site. All good input.

Good luck to you & hubby,

Janet

chemical stress test

by Tracey_E - 2009-11-20 06:11:29

It's perfectly safe to have with a pm, many members here have had it more than once. It gives the dr a great picture of how the heart is working.

Here is a description of what they do and why
http://www.heartsite.com/html/chemical_stress.html

The only type of test we need to be careful about is MRI's.

Me too

by ppt - 2009-11-20 09:11:09

Yep - I had it. No biggie. You just sit down and the medication fools your heart into thinking you are exercising. Feels weird when you reach your threshold but stops very quickly and you are back to "normal" in no time. Good luck !

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