Looking for advice, new to group...

From: PaulP (ravenwing71_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:21:00 -0700

Greetings,

Dropped by because I am looking for advice due to the very odd situation I
have found myself in the past few weeks.

To begin with, I am a 33 year old male, fairly good health, have had high
cholesterol for some years now, and been on Lipitor which has knocked it
down a bit, but not entirely. Also have a long history of GI problems,
including IBS & a Hiatal Hernia.

Two weeks ago I started getting an odd pain in my upper chest, kept
increasing in frequency and duration as time went by. Went into the ER a few
days after it hit, and they did a chest X-ray, blood tests and EKG, all
normal.

My doctor thought it was probably an esophageal spasm. Few days later the
same pain comes back worse, and I end up going back to the ER.

This is where things got strange. Arrive, they do several EKG's (all
normal), X-Ray (normal) and blood tests, including CKMB enzyme (normal),
they then send me upstairs to run the treadmill, which I aced with no
problems at all. Constant cardiac monitoring was also normal.

Now the strange part, after being in the ER for 12 hours, and everything
looking great, so they are about to cut me loose. However at that time a
test comes back that was taken when I arrived, but they had to send it to
another lab as they had a problem with theirs, so it took 12 hours, it was
the Traponin (sp?) enzyme test, and it came back at 2.1, all of a sudden I
have people from Cardiology coming down telling me I had a heart attack and
am being admitted.

They do another Traponin test and it is 13.6, so I am sent upstairs and am
obsevered for two days, pumped full of blood thinners, etc. The third test
was 13.6 as well, then it starts dropping back down after that.

Been home for a few days now, and am feeling fine, aside from all the meds
they have me taking. Have a Cardiac Cath scheduled for Monday, but am a bit
worried about having such a risky procedure when the only indication of a
heart attack was the high traponin level.

Even the Cardiologists think it is a strange case, as I aced a treadmill
while I was essentially having a heart attack and showed no ill symptoms.

Sorry for the rant, this has just been a strange few weeks, and I wanted to
bounce this off people that have been down this road before, and maybe could
give me a bit of insight.

Many thanks,

Paul

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