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Excuse my typing .....just had rotator cuff surgery.
I have been a high preformance fitness athlete me whole life....now 70. this past August i experienced double vision and saw my eye doc and had an mri 7 days after the double vision started. result amyloid angio.....and “mini.” stroke, two docs indicated no angiogram necessary.
i train very hard and think that caused it....after an extremely intense workout. They are not sure but put me on Norvasc...BP is now less than 120/80.
my only guidelines are to take the BP med and keep exercise HR less than 85% of max. 220-age x 85% is quite different than Karvonen method. i have been released and have a check up in one year.
i am a masters degreed exercise physiologist and feel i need better information. 220-age or karvonen work for cardio but not weights. i don’t work hard enough no to go to valsalva. i am gradually increasing my workouts.
i went to the Texas Stroke Institute which ranked high.
hope this helps you some....I am trying to find a PT TEAM with more expertise with a guy like me.
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Hi @caddo21, welcome to Connect. I thought you might appreciate this in-depth journal article about CAA http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/88/11/982
I didn't understand a couple of terms in your first post. You said "220-age or karvonen work for cardio but not weights. i don’t work hard enough no to go to valsalva." I'm unfamiliar with the Karvonen Heart Rate Calculator vs 220-age rate calculator. Is one better than the other? Do you need a heart rate calculator for weight work?
I also had to look up Valsalva maneuver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver. How do you use this to monitor your fitness level?
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THX. After reading other comments, all which were suggesting eminent death from this problem......my docs, at Texas Stroke Institute, suggested no such thing. I was told not much is really known about this issue, although dementia may be related in some cases. I had two small ruptures which were initially thought to be brain tumers hours before I was sent to TSI.