I had chest pains today so stepdaughter took me to the small hospital to see the out of hours GP. I had an ECG there. We left just before 12 from the small hospital and I had to go to a bigger hospital for further tests. I had another ECG and 2 lots of blood tests. There was a lot of waiting for things to be done. Got to go back tomorrow for a 2 pm appointment.
They reckon it’s angina. The blood tests and electrical heart tracing were normal. That means there is no sign of any damage to my heart. They’ve considered the various factors, and with what they know about me and my results there is less than 1 in 100 risk the pain was caused by my heart. We finally left there at about 7.50 pm.
Had the follow up appointment. Doctors doesn’t think it’s angina,but we have to keep an eye on it in case anything changes. He said there were lots of positive signs ie blood tests and heart traces were fine,non smoker,not diabetic,cholesterol 4.2 (I was pleased with that as last result I remember about 2 years ago in Essex it was 6.4). Pulse was a bit fast at first. He did bp. I said to him yesterday I’d kept looking at the monitor when they did it, and that didn’t help. I noticed the diastolic was high. He said my pulse was fast yesterday,probably because I was anxious. BP115/75. Pulse 80-not perfect but better than the late 90s/early 100s I got at the depot clinic in Essex.
He thinks the oedema is most likely where I’m very sedentary. Got to walk more.