Welcome to Connect @snakebyte1 and @keithl56,
@keithl56, you may notice that I moved your discussion and combined it with this existing discussion on high calcium score so that you can connect to many others who are discussing much of what you are experiencing.
If you click on VIEW & REPLY in your email notification, you will see the whole discussion and can join in, meet, and participate with other members talking about their or their loved ones' experiences.
I’m tagging a few members who may be able to share some of their experiences with high calcium levels, heart complications and the stress this causes. Please meet @botexas @mcphee @lolagrey @luckyg @gailfaith @bryang and Mentors @hopeful33250 @predictable. I’m sure others will jump in as well.
You may also wish to view some of the conversations taking place in this other discussion on Connect:
– High Calcium CT Scan Score of 1925 – Anyone Else Experience This? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/high-calcium-ct-scan-score-of-1925-anyone-else-experience-this/
Here is a great journal discussion by Mayo Clinic cardiologists about the basics and significance of coronary calcium score: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/842348.
@botexas, you had mentioned that you go to the gym every day for one hour of hard exercise; do you have any suggestions about exercise that might help @keithl56?
@snakebyte1, what has your doctor suggested to help lower the calcium scores?
Please provide the treatment plan for high arterial calcium. All I have heard is cardiologist's placating patients. Where are the clinical trials (I could think of at least 4 pathways) This is a very large bomb getting ready to explode and with the medical communities just taking their sweet time. I love the anedotal evidence of massive calcium scores in people in their 80's. Mature stable plaque is protective versus soft immature plaque. There's literature inditing statins for this issue as being stable plaque generators that overall lowers MACE but creating plaque via pharmacuiticals is much less than ideal. Come on people demand clinical trials being developed to address this issue. I am sure you don't want to wait until the legal beagles latch on.