Status Report: Not Dead Yet!
Dec. 8th, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindMan, "I'm Having Chest Pains" is one of those Magical Medical Incantations that makes everyone move Very Quickly Indeed.
It helped that the urgent care wasn't especially crowded.
They gave me an EKG (and chastised me for not coming in yesterday): it turned out normal.
They didn't do a stress EKG, just resting. Instead, they did a blood test to look for the specific proteins that heart muscle releases when it's damaged. That, too, turned out normal. Whatever it is, it's not heart -- that "bruised esophagus" hypothesis is as likely as anything.
So! Nothing to worry about, nothing to even slow me down. Even Saturday's chest flutter wasn't a matter of concern -- just my body's way of saying "either slow the bleep down, or WALK MORE OFTEN."
This is really just some mild discomfort. It seems positional -- if I lean back, it's less of an issue.
Thanks for the concern and kind words in the last post, everyone.
It helped that the urgent care wasn't especially crowded.
They gave me an EKG (and chastised me for not coming in yesterday): it turned out normal.
They didn't do a stress EKG, just resting. Instead, they did a blood test to look for the specific proteins that heart muscle releases when it's damaged. That, too, turned out normal. Whatever it is, it's not heart -- that "bruised esophagus" hypothesis is as likely as anything.
So! Nothing to worry about, nothing to even slow me down. Even Saturday's chest flutter wasn't a matter of concern -- just my body's way of saying "either slow the bleep down, or WALK MORE OFTEN."
This is really just some mild discomfort. It seems positional -- if I lean back, it's less of an issue.
Thanks for the concern and kind words in the last post, everyone.
