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OK, I went and Had my test done (EKG), my doctor comes in the room and sits down, looks at me and Say's Bobbie your EKG was adnormal, there might be something wrong with your heart, I'm sitting there thinking what the F**k!!!!!!!!!!!!! and so we need to make an appointment for another test at the hospital. I just started crying, I was floored, what the hell, so then he Say's if there is something wrong we will have to cancel the surgery, which I knew that one was coming. He said it might be a blockage, I'm not getting enough blood to my heart, WOW what a day, I'm so scared, I'm not ready for this. Please pray that everything is going to be fine. Love Bobbie:frown::smile2::frown::mellow::smile2::thumbup::tt2:

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Believe it or not finding an abnormality with your heart now is a good thing. You're finding it out when you can do something about it rather than after a heart attack.

Prayers go out for you.

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He said it might be a blockage, I'm not getting enough blood to my heart, WOW what a day, I'm so scared, I'm not ready for this. Please pray that everything is going to be fine. Love Bobbie

Bobbie, I'll pray for you too. Thank goodness these EKGs are done prior to surgery. You're the second person, this week, who has posted the their doctor uncovered a possible heart irregularity with their EKG.

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I'm sorry you're having to go through this scary period - but it's true that, if anything is wrong, you have a chance to catch it before something serious happens.

I hope it is a false alarm and you're able to get your band soon. Or it is easily fixable and you can get your band soon enough.

I wish you all the best!

Susan

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Bobbie:

Glad they found it by running tests, and not by some other way. Hopefully this will just be a little bump in the path to being banded. Take care of you and your heart and then battle the weight.

Best wishes to you.

Take care.

Sue

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Best wishes to you Bobbie! I am happy they discovered this before it was too late.

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Hey there! I just wanted to let you know I was praying for you.. I also had an abnormal ekg and I failed my stress test prior to my lapband surgery. I ended up having a cardiac catheritization and praise the lord I was fine. I ended up just having spazaming capillaries. Less than 3 months later I had my lapband. Just keep positive and remember we are all here for you!

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I also knew of someone that they caught a blockage while testing for LapBand.

It was the best thing for them and probably saved their life.

She was stented and had her LapBand 6 months later.

I was very nervous during my cardic.

I have a family history of heart attacks and thought I was a candiate also for one.

I had the full blown testing and to my surprise I was good, in fact great!! What a relief!!!

I would have been upset too if they found something but my desire to have LapBand was so great it got me to go get all the testing, if it wasn't for that I would have never gone and who knows something might have been wrong and it might have been too late.

Hang in there!

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You will definately be in my prayers. Good luck to you.:tt2:

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Bobbie,

I'm so sorry you are so scared, but like everyone has said, this really could be a blessing in disguise. I am hoping and praying it is something very fixable, and you will be able to have your surgery soon. Take care of yourself.

Julie

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:thumbup: Wow, Thanks everyone, you all have made me feel so much better, and I know your all right, it is better to find out now and get it fixed, thanks for your prayers too, Hugs Bobbie:tt1::tt2::smile2:

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Don't panic till you find out what exactly it is. I just went thru this in April myself. It could be nothing.....as mine was. I had 2 abnormal EKG's, then a "false positive" Nuclear Stress test, then because of a family history w/ heart disease he said he couldn't clear me with out a Cardiac Cath procedure. It was a surgical outpatient procedure so of COURSE I was freakin out. Well all ended up clear, for whatever reason all the previous tests were false positives. So DON'T panic till you know exactly what's going on. I FREAKED out...and for nothing. All was clear, and I was banded last month! Best of luck to you! :tt2:

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Hey Bobbie, I did the same thing I failed my stress test. I have a rapid heart rate and didn't get to take my meds that morning and I thought that is what made me fail but to find out after my heart catherization I have a 10% blockage. They won't do anything unless its 70% blocked. I had my lap band surgery August 21 and am doing fine. My cardiologist told me with weightloss and exercise that will take care of my blockage...It is always better to be safe than sorry...I hope everything goes well and I'm sure it will...Marie

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I am glad that they caught it. Just like the others said, this could be a blessing in disguise. I hope your other tests go well.

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Don't panic just yet! My primary care doc detected an abnormal EKG on me as well and sent me to a cardiologist. I went through the same emotions as you and scared out of my mind. My health was spiraling downhill as the weight came on and my bloods work was all crazy! After a year of my endo trying to convince me to have weight loss surgery, I had finally came to terms with this and then hearing that was just another roadblock for me. Sooo... I went to the cardiologist where they did a sonogram of my heart and learned that my heart was a bit on the weak side and slightly enlarged. He put me on blood pressure medicine and said that my heart should go back to normal as the weight comes off. The blood pressure meds are given to me to help ease the pressure of the heart working harder.

Sooooo, just relax and don't worry too much. I am hoping that this is the case for you. But like the others wrote: just be glad that they detected it.

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