CAD or something else?
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Six weeks ago, my husband had chest pains and was taken to the emergency room. There they did ECGs and blood tests over a period of 18 hours, but nothing abnormal was detected. He was discharged home and told that he would require a heart stress test. My husband has type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. All these conditions are well controlled with medication and he has lost 2 stone and has been told that he is now classed as non diabetic. He exercises regularly, has never smoked but there is a family history of heart disease.
Two weeks ago he went for the stress test, but they did an ecg first and refused to carry out the test as there was a concern about the T waves. Not sure what this could mean.
We saw a cardiologist last week. He said we could go through stress test and echocardiogram but ultimately, he felt it best to go straight through an angiogram, describing it as the gold standard. He said this would be better than a CT angiogram,
It is now 6 weeks since his chest pains and he has had no pains or discomfort since. There has been absolutely no signs of angina on exertion and my husband has been carrying on doing workouts since, with no ill effect,
My question is, would he have experienced heart pain since, if he has Coronary artery disease? Seems strange that he has had no chest pain, no breathlessness whatsoever. Is a lack of symptoms normal in CAD. Just hoping it was a virus or pulled muscle in his chest. Incidentally, he also has asthma, for which he uses a brown/ blue inhaler.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. His angiogram is only 2 weeks off, but it seems like an eternity.
Many thanks!
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peter01729 Guest
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That strange about the "T" waves, I just came out of St Tomas' hospital A&E this evening, whilst there I expressed concern regarding my T waves, (Click on little pink picture below and you will see my ECG graph that looks like telegraph poles next to mountains, the narrow telegraph poles are R/S waves, then the mountain is the T wave, its suppossed to be a little hill not a mountain like mine), The lady doctor said they are never worried about T waves except regarding Pottasium levels and mine where fine!
Guest peter01729
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Thanks for your reply.
We've had to cancel our holiday abroad, due to the concern about his T waves and their concern about risks of CAD.
Being a teacher, I pretty disappointed but health comes first. I wanted to have the angiogram done privately, but it wasn't to be, just to get some answers and if nothing wrong, book another holiday.
He hasn't had any further symptoms and nothing when exercising.
Time will tell!