I was told it was a physically demanding stress test. Basically going all out on the treadmill. Well, I probably wouldn't have fallen prey to the cardiologists deadly medicine because as we learned in Dyingman 50 and 53, I would be unable to give it everything I got because of my damaged knees. As it turns out the Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nuclear-stress-test/AN00168) tells me that it's a lot like an exercise stress test but adds imaging to the mix, thus Secretlife's dad's arteries being SEEN to be 10% blocked. There was probably nothing much more dangerous about it being a NUCLEAR stress test.
The nuclear refers to the radioactive tracer they inject in patients before this otherwise standard stress test. Such radioactive elements are fairly ordinary means of diagnosis and they use low doses, short half lives (they don't stick around very long), and little tendency for being metabolically incorporated into cells. Radioactivity is most sensitive to rapidly dividing cells thus the danger to the more actively splitting egg and sperm cells once they are used for procreation. Children should avoid radiation too since they are growing and that happens through cell replication. Damage to cells gets copied, along with the cells themselves.
The Mayo clinic also brings up those who can't exercise. "If you're unable to exercise, you may be injected with a medication that increases blood flow to your heart muscle — simulating exercise — for the test."
This makes me ask: Do you want to stress the heart of a person who hasn't been stressing it themselves via exercise? If they won't be stressing the heart due to this inability, is it important to test it?
I have to wonder if such questions reflect naivete, or common sense.
Next: Honestly, how low can you get?
* DM
Fitness Goals:
60 beats per minute resting pulse.
10 minutes hard cycling. (intensity 5 out of 10)
Weights: 3 days - 100 lbs. - 6 cycles of 5,5,5,10 repetitions (2 cycles/day)
Current Fitness Record: (since last entry)
Pulse: 60 beats per minute
4 x < 2 min cycling - average intensity 3.5 - 70 cycles (Pulse = 126 at last check 2-2008)
0 day - 65 lbs. - 0 cycles
Blood Pressure: 125/69 11-2007
RECENT SYMPTOMS : None.
ONGOING SYMPTOMS: Weak, clicking knees, Slight pain in right knee when kneeling and shifting knee to the right. Hyperhidrosis.
DIAGNOSIS: Unknown injury to right knee, possible impact from small stumble onto landing of concrete stairs 2006. Injured knee joints from sprinting.
DRUG REGIMEN: Aspartame. (3 diet sodas daily) Caffeine (three cups of coffee daily. One cola.)ONGOING TREATMENT: Tri-Annual dental visits. Cycling / Spinning for strength training.
PROGNOSIS FOR FOLLOWING WEEK: Slow improvement of knees. Good health.
POTENTIAL TREATMENTS: Fish Oil supplements. Leafy greens. Axillary vacuum curettage.
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