Well the weird thing is, I always felt normal. Even when it was 42%Great news! 53% is just about normal really. It might go up some more too. You feel good now?
i need to dig into this deeper, i will post updates as i get them
Well the weird thing is, I always felt normal. Even when it was 42%Great news! 53% is just about normal really. It might go up some more too. You feel good now?
Mine was down to about 35% once and I only felt it as having lower endurance. I thought I was over trained. My heart recovered to about 55% after 1 year of being clean.Well the weird thing is, I always felt normal. Even when it was 42%
i need to dig into this deeper, i will post updates as i get them
Oh interesting.Mine was down to about 35% once and I only felt it as having lower endurance. I thought I was over trained. My heart recovered to about 55% after 1 year of being clean.
It's not easy staying off. I failed and got back on again, then had my heart attack. It started out as a low dose test cycle and quickly grew from that.Oh interesting.
Yeah im going to follow up with all of this for sure with my primary care doc and a cardiologist. Keep me honest. And yes, the hardest thing now will be staying OFF roids. I believe you now lol.
I gave away/threw out my stash. trt only for me now.
Hello gents. Long story short I decided to get a calcium score done and a nuclear stress test after some bodybuilding friends of mine had heart scares.
This is the procedure where they inject tracer dye into you, run some scans and put you on a treadmill.
the good news is my calcium score came back at 0
the bad news is my “gated wall motion analysis” was globally hypokinetic
stress left ventricle ejection fraction 42%
resting left ventricle ejection fraction 38%
These numbers both scared and surprised me. Last i had a tradtional echo cardiogram about 5-6 years ago my EF was well above 50% but perhaps things degraded since.
the course of action noted by the doctor is to follow up with an echo cardiogram on the ventricle for more analysis.
so question, is an echo cardiogram more accurate? I swore the test i did should have been the be all, end all for tests like this to determine heart function but the doc says to do an echo. Is it possible this test is not 100% accurate with the ejection fraction?
lastly, i have no symptoms of cardiomyopathy and im on a trt dose of test.
comments and questions are welcome. Thanks guys.
Does anyone have any reliable brands / types of curcumin I can use? I read most curcumin does not absorb well when taken orally.
Good question I will pull up the report and post them.Sorry if this was mentioned, what are your other echo measurements? LVEDD, LVESD, LVmass, etc?
update:
Have an appointment booked with cardiologist for follow up. Everything else is as is. I feel good.
The temptation to run some deca and more test is HUGE. Will not lie. Just posting here to keep me honest.
Still running all the same supps that I posted at the start of this thread.
cheers boys.
Don't do it. I once recovered my ejection fraction and then started up slowly with steroids again. 6 years later I had my heart attack.update:
Have an appointment booked with cardiologist for follow up. Everything else is as is. I feel good.
The temptation to run some deca and more test is HUGE. Will not lie. Just posting here to keep me honest.
Still running all the same supps that I posted at the start of this thread.
cheers boys.
Good morning fellas. Going strong still with no roids and living as healthy as possible lol. I have a new concern though.
This was the test I had done in the hospital
"myocardial perfusion imaging" they call it. I guess there are so many different names for it but people here call it a calcium score.
It was essentially dye that was injected into me twice. Once during rest and once during intense exercise and then put under the CT scan to develop the images.
My main concern now was that it may have been overkill and I exposed myself to radiation that I probably should not have at my age. I am 31.
Two things;
1. I am trying to figure out how much radiation I was exposed to.
2. I want to learn as much as I can about supplements and diet for cancer reduction.
I am completely paranoid now lmao. Cancer runs on my fathers side of the family unfortunately, colon cancer to be specific.
The resting heart rate is interestingI have not proof, but I know with me after my heart attack I definitely felt better after exercising for a few months. After about 1 year of exercise my EF went up from about 20% to 25%. I cant say for certain that it was all due to exercise or even partly due. I just know I feel better while I am exercising and my heart failure symptoms are lessened. There are times I got sick or injured something and went a few weeks without exercise and I would feel like shit by the end. Start exercising and feel better within a few weeks. I know its not all psychological because my blood pressure drops, resting heart rate slows, and EF went up in the beginning. I think if your resting heart rate goes down then that means that your stroke volume has gone up. Stroke volume is directly proportional to ejection fraction. So there is that. When you have cardiomyopathy, your heart rate will go up to compensate for the lower stroke volume/Ejection Fraction.
What is your resting heart rate? When I first got diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, years before my heart attack, my resting heart rate in bed after waking up was around 105 BPM!
That is high. Anything over 100 is clinically diagnosed as tachycardia.The resting heart rate is interesting
Since 18 yrs mine has been 105 or 90s regularly
My docs have never said anything , nurses when I was young questioned it
But no on ever followed up
I thought it just ment I was out of shape
I'm in my 50's now
yeah this is me all day long basically I should talk to my doctor see if he needs to do some follow-up on that thanksThat is high. Anything over 100 is clinically diagnosed as tachycardia.
There are some conditions like that which are congenital I think. I don't know anything about that.
I just know about the pathologies that can cause that. Low ejection fraction is one. Stroke volume is too low so the rate increases to make up the difference.
If you want to know the cause, you should see a good cardiologist and ask them directly about the tachycardia. Another thing, you could have a leaky mitral valve not diagnosed.
View attachment 141592yeah this is me all day long basically I should talk to my doctor see if he needs to do some follow-up on that thanks