So I went for my initial cardiac clearance almost 2 weeks ago, and even though everything looked good & I haven't had any problems ~ because of family history, this cardiologist wants me to do an echocardiogram and a stress test before he'll give me clearance.

I'm think I'm nervous because I'm afraid they're going to find some random silent heart problem ~ which I know would be a GOOD thing if they did find it before it caused any trouble, lol ~ but still, it would just be another thing, you know?

But on the positive side, I am more than fine to run on a treadmill and Thursday is my surgery consult ~ so we'll be setting a date in anticipation of my cardiac clearance coming in

My cardiologist appt is Fri and I'm nervous too LOL fingers crossed that ur as healthy as can be, ready for surgery!

Side thought....what should I expect at the cardiologist appt, will they actually throw my butt on a treadmill, bc if they do, I sure as heck won't be wearing jeans and heels! LOL

I have my str

I have my stress test Thursday & I am nervous also. I just don't want anything to push my surgery back. Talk about stressful!!

If it's just a regular clearance appointment, they should just do a history, regular sort of exam, and EKG (just stickies w/ words on your torso - takes longer to put them all on than to capture the actual EKG!) It's a Stress Test where they throw you on the treadmill... which is why I have a note for myself to remember some gym clothes & sneakers to change into when I leave the office for mine tomorrow =P

I had to do the stress test a few weeks ago and it wasn't as bad as I thought. The cardiologist told me there are two different categories of stress tests preformed. I was low risk, so I just had to have the heart monitor electrodes (?) stuck to my chest and walked on the treadmill. Every 3 minutes, the machine would up the speed and elevation. I was able to tell the technician how much I could take. For the cardiac clearance they also had to perform an echo heart ultrasound. That hurt a bit. The technician had to firmly push the wand into my chest to get accurate pictures of my heart. My chest was sore for about 5 days afterwards. All in all, I would say that the cardiac clearance was fairly easy and stress free.

How did your clearance go?

Had mine this morning. Had the skinny technician try to lecture me on how major of a surgery this is after she felt it was necessary to say "Have you tried weight watchers?" No, I haven't geez, perhaps its that easy?! Shut up! GRRRRRR Now I normally am a mouthy red headed pistol, but for some reason, the only thing that came out of my mouth was "I guess you've never been overweight" and left it at that. When the dr came in, he was great. Got my clearance and will not have to deal with them again.

Mine went well also. It didnt take long on the treadmill to reach my target heart rate and the girl laughed and said you are out of shape. I did get my results today and they were good. Just waiting for Aug 27th!!!

My stress test went ok. The first one took about 2 mins b4 I reached the max heart rate. Then I was told I needed to have another stress test with a kinda dye injection due to my heart skipping beats during the initial stress test. The second one went absolutely great, even tho it took about 2 hours :-(

I'm nervous for mine! What could possibly go wrong that the cardiologist would not give clearance? Would Anything like tachycardia/bradycardia or a minor heart murmor prevent clearance?

Nah none of those things will prevent clearance unless they are way out of control. I have a heart murmur and had to have a couple of echocardiograms and wear a heart monitor for 2 weeks to make sure everything was OK since I was newly diagnosed and got my clearance from there. Good luck to ya!

Nah none of those things will prevent clearance unless they are way out of control. I have a heart murmur and had to have a couple of echocardiograms and wear a heart monitor for 2 weeks to make sure everything was OK since I was newly diagnosed and got my clearance from there. Good luck to ya!

Thank you! I feel more at ease now