Treadmills are evil.
Particularly when there are two ladies just standing there watching you as you try to keep up and hope you reach a stopping point before the next "stage" is inflicted upon you. And by stage I mean the darn thing inclines and speeds up. And somewhere in between, one of the ladies wants you to LET GO of the bar you're holding onto for dear life, so she can take your blood pressure! For bragging rights, I made it 11 minutes and 30 seconds before they hit the stop button and hurried me over for another ultrasound of my heart. That's 4 stages folks. I'm not sure how in the world that thing could possibly hit a stage 5, and I don't want to know if such a setting exists.
All in all it was an interesting appointment. I have now seen yet another body part on ultrasound (for those counting, I'm up to two babies and involved parts, a gall bladder, and now my heart. Woo!). My diagnosis is: a very minor mitral valve prolapse, and a strong, healthy heart that just happens to hiccup occasionally. Ok, that last bit is all me, but he did say my heart looks normal and strong. I have no restrictions, though I am going to continue to limit my caffeine intake. I think it's a good health decision for me. I'm also supposed to go back and get hooked up to a monitor for a few days if it starts up again like it did at the beginning of all this.
I'm not sure how satisfied I am with all of this. I want to know why my heart is doing this, but at the same time, I don't know that any diagnosis of faults in the heart is a good thing. particularly at my age. So it seems like maybe no real answer is indeed the best answer. And honestly, it really is all in God's hands, anyways. No diagnosis would change that.
All in all it was an interesting appointment. I have now seen yet another body part on ultrasound (for those counting, I'm up to two babies and involved parts, a gall bladder, and now my heart. Woo!). My diagnosis is: a very minor mitral valve prolapse, and a strong, healthy heart that just happens to hiccup occasionally. Ok, that last bit is all me, but he did say my heart looks normal and strong. I have no restrictions, though I am going to continue to limit my caffeine intake. I think it's a good health decision for me. I'm also supposed to go back and get hooked up to a monitor for a few days if it starts up again like it did at the beginning of all this.
I'm not sure how satisfied I am with all of this. I want to know why my heart is doing this, but at the same time, I don't know that any diagnosis of faults in the heart is a good thing. particularly at my age. So it seems like maybe no real answer is indeed the best answer. And honestly, it really is all in God's hands, anyways. No diagnosis would change that.