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High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Feb 13 9:01am | Replies (640)Comment receiving replies
What are the odds that the score represents calcium on the outside of the artery. I’ve heard this happens and hoping it happens a lot. I’m 58 with a 1150 score from 2 years ago so likely higher now. I feel great, walk 4 miles 5 times a week at fast pace and have no symptoms. All other tests show doing well including stress test. I take statin and BP pills now so all look good. Doc hates vitamins and just wants to wait for symptoms to look into it further.
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Don’t rely on the DOC. They only treat Symptoms. Get a CT-A.
It will tell you everything you need to know. Then go on Crestor 20 or 40 and 5 mg Zetia.
I'm very much in your situation - 59, 1124 CAC a year ago, walk 3-4 miles daily and do tension band exercises every other day. Just consulted with a cardiologist and reduced my rosuvastatin from 20 mg/day to 10 due to muscle pain and concerns about cognitive issues. I only agreed to that because my LDL profile is pattern A, I have great lipids due to 3 years eating LCHF (TG/HDL ratio is 1.2 and has been that for years, LDL particle size is also great) and I'm highly insulin-sensitive - fasting insulin level is 3 and my Quest insulin sensitivity score is 5 - anything below 33 being insulin-sensitive. Your question about where the Ca is located is intriguing and I hope you are right it could be outside the arteries.
Edit - ultimately I'd like to drop the statin to 5 mg/d or even eliminate it - statins are far less effective than the medical orthodoxy leads one to believe (they like to use relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction, in their studies - rant over 🙂 ).
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The odds? We'd all like to know that but we don't have enough data points. I have a colleague who has a high score, had an angiogram, and the calcium was all on the outside of the artery. While this doesn't represent atherosclerosis, we also don't know what, if any, are the long term consequences of external Ca++ build up. But we'd sure like it there rather than lining the pipes, huh..... "Doc hates vitamins"?.... sheesh....