Nuclear testing

[PeteP]

Good luck, Mike. Welcome to the bradycardia club!
Pete

[nigelb]

Best wishes, Mike. I certainly hope you can give us a glowing report regarding the results!

Nigel²

[Airspeed]

Thanks for your kind words, you blokes.
Results go to GP in about 24 hours, appointment with him next Thursday.

Bumpy start, 2 nurses having a combined total 3 attempts to get that needle whatsit into a vein, so that the radioactive tracer could be pumped in.
Treadmill was OK, 57bpm went to 130 at about ten minutes.
W______a_______i_______t_________i________n__________g___________
Chatted with others, and felt better already compared to them.
One bloke was miffed about all the procedures, so I told him it was better to find out what's going on inside us than have the doctors explain what happened, to our families, 'the day after'
First 15 minutes in the camera/CT machine gave me shoulder cramps from holding my arms over my head.
Second shot of tracer.
W_______a_______etc
Second camera exposure 9 minutes, ouch and pins & needles in the shoulders again.
Then they sent me home.
Thanks again, you warmed the cockles.

[Dev One]

Know what you mean Mike, I've had a couple of goes over here in France,there are a couple differences, firstly they use a bicycle instead of a treadmill (not so easy to fall over) and you get a face to face analysis with the specialist as well as a written report & coloured piccys before you leave for home!
My problem follows from a DVT (that I didn't go to doctor with & didn't realise I had - thought it was a sciatic nerve problem) followed 6 months later by a pulmonary embolism, which then lead to palpitations which are now controlled with beta blockers. Thank goodness for modern medicine, bad family history of heart problems!
Keith

[Filonian]

Hope all pans out well for you Mike and Robbie.


Graham

[paulsl]

What nothing, nothing at all

Kevin

Well the GP rang and said they'd found nothing and I was given the all clear. So I figure that they've got this picture of my head that shows nothing. It does explain a few personality traits that I'd worry about if I had any measurable ability to do so

"better to find out what's going on inside us than have the doctors explain what happened, to our families, 'the day after' ".

How so very true Mike. It's one of the consolations of all the poking, prodding cutting and vetting that I've gone through in the last couple of years. I know exactly where I stand physically. I talk to so many people who seem to think I'm weird having that. I have a lot of friends "of a certain age" and they look sideways at me when I suggest they should get checked out. Sadly for one or two, it's so hard that I won't be able to say "I told you so"

So come on fellas, follow Mike's lead and get checked out. It might save your life. <-- "don't you dare lecture in the forum"

[Filonian]

Glad your results were ok Paul.



Graham

[petermcleland]

Robbie and Mike...Good Luck with the scans

[Vancouver]

Hoping it all turns out well for you Mike. It really is amazing what they can do these days. I have an arthritic left shoulder, last Sept I thought I was just having a bad episode with it as periodically happens. Naturally I Ignored it and just took some Advil for about 6 days. Then on the Saturday after checking in at this very forum, I made to go upstairs to get a coffee when KAPPOW! ...... suddenly I was lying at the foot of the stairs gasping for breath like a landed trout with unbelievable pain in the chest. Alone in the house I was unable to move for near on 40 min without recurrent pain. Eventually I got to the landline by crawling along the floor like a wounded Commando called SWMBO who rushed home in 15 looong minutes and got me to the hospital whereupon entering casualty, I had another attack. The hospital were fantastic though and 3 days later I was stented. Just the one. But to lie there fully awake while they inserted the thing through my wrist to my heart and watching it all on a screen with the heart beating merrily away is just pure science fiction imo. Next day I was home.
I read an article the other day on Heart Attack. It's advice, "If you feel you are having a heart attack just chew some Aspirin, don't just swallow whole or they will not work as quickly. Then call for an ambulance." Clearly written by someone who never had one. I couldn't get off the floor never mind make my way to the medicine cabinet and then the 'phone.
Oh and they also decided I was type 2 Diabetic whilst I was in there.
Getting old sucks. Now every time I get the shoulder ache I start a wondering ............
Sorry for rambling, makes a change normally it is you Mike.

[Kevin Farnell]

What nothing, nothing at all

Kevin

Well the GP rang and said they'd found nothing and I was given the all clear. So I figure that they've got this picture of my head that shows nothing. It does explain a few personality traits that I'd worry about if I had any measurable ability to do so

"better to find out what's going on inside us than have the doctors explain what happened, to our families, 'the day after' ".

How so very true Mike. It's one of the consolations of all the poking, prodding cutting and vetting that I've gone through in the last couple of years. I know exactly where I stand physically. I talk to so many people who seem to think I'm weird having that. I have a lot of friends "of a certain age" and they look sideways at me when I suggest they should get checked out. Sadly for one or two, it's so hard that I won't be able to say "I told you so"

So come on fellas, follow Mike's lead and get checked out. It might save your life. <-- "don't you dare lecture in the forum"

Delighted that you're OK, Paul.

Hopefully, Mike and Robbie will have the same outcome.

Although I realise that it is a very serious condition, my comment was meant to be light hearted and just in jest.
For my own part, I spent much of my early years in and out of hospital, having been born with a 'Hole in the Heart' along with other complications. Great credit to the staff at Birmingham Children's Hospital for my treatment and recovery.
I hope my comment didn't cause any offence - that as the last thing I intended.

Regards

Kevin