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Exercise, Lifestyle and Life Experience with Dilated Aorta?
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Once you get over the initial shock just take a breath. There are lots of people walking around with aneurisms that don’t know it and will live normal lives. Be thankful yours was spotted. Mine was identified back in 2009 when I had a calcium scan done. It was 4.2cm. Considered small and depending on age, high normal in size but not an aneurism. It is now 4.8 after 16 years. I just continued to live my life over the years which included weight lifting, scuba diving etc. live healthy, listen to your doctor, take you meds, get your scans and don’t let it consume you. It may never grow at all. If they recommend yearly scans make sure to ask about echocardiograms in stead of CTs every year to minimize radiation exposure. echos are not as accurate but at your size it is probably accurate enough.
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Thank you for taking the time to type this all out and to reply. It means a lot to me. I feel like I have been in “initial shock” for going on 3 weeks now since I was diagnosed.
2.5 years ago I was at 4.1 and my cardio didn’t really raise an eyebrow. Unfortunately during this time I continued to lift heavy, do CrossFit movements and lift without regard. This time around I had the MyChart app and dug into the results which sparked the huge scare, reflection and worry at 4.3. I will definitely be scaling back on the activity but now in the worrying phase where I’m wondering what I do may or may not impact my situation. Also wondering if my roof matching my aorta a 4.3 is adaptive development or something to worry about.
I do have a CTA in several weeks along with a stress test in 2 months. The time between appointments just moves so slow and I need to stay out of my head and off of Google.