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High CAC Score with Optimal Cholesterol Levels

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: May 18, 2025 | Replies (20)

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"Is this their communication to you or what you are feeling like how you are being treated?"
Both. Their patient load is too heavy. They don't have the bandwidth to really dig into an issue for a specific patient.

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Oh, @tinyelvis you are a rock star to deal with your health head on!

Is your PCP helping coordinate with cardiology and GI? It will help so much to identify one provider that you can trust and can help put together what you are learning, especially since what you have going on may be more systemic instead of one specialty area.

I am so sorry you are in the finger-pointing stress circle. It is exhausting and gets you nowhere. I have a complex medical condition that I do not completely understand. Through figuring this out I feel like I lost my identify in my medical record, and by the time I realized what was going on so, so much bad had happened. I got put in boxes I didn’t fit in. It’s a tough hole to crawl out of. A simple but powerful recommendation I got at Mayo Clinic was a book that helped me wade through understanding what health anxiety is vs what various anxiety disorders look like, then what to do about it in terms of talking to my doctors, handling my symptoms, etc. Their words, “ignore the title, take away what is relevant, leave the rest.” This book is a good tool in the toolbox that I am realizing at this moment I could benefit from rereading. I am happy to share more about this book if it sounds helpful at all.