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Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jun 25 3:31pm | Replies (193)Comment receiving replies
Appreciate the encouragement. Been a week since I found out about this and already making big dietary changes. I will say that the statin also definitely makes me more tired, which has helped me with sleep, although my 3-mile run is *much* tougher to get through since I started taking the statin (time down 4 minutes, and totally drained by the end in a way I wasn't just a week ago). For me, the stress reduction part has so far been the hardest/impossible. This news has consumed me and put a massive cloud over everything I do. It's on my mind constantly and I just find myself basically just grappling with the idea of imminent sudden death in every situation I'm in. I just can't believe I have this much plaque in me already. Trying to find a way to think positively about this. Yes, being proactive and trying to address it is a good way to channel energy, and I'm trying to do that. I just have read enough to give me some real doubts about whether all of that will make a big difference in the face of my genetic load.
Out of curiosity, what age were you when you got the 1,170 score and how long have you been dealing with this?
Thanks again for the reply.
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I was 62 at the time. I hadn't even heard of the test but a doctor friend told me about it and suggested I take it. I was in pretty good shape but since heart disease runs in my family I thought maybe I'll get a score of 100 or even 150 .
I was devastated when I got the results back. Just like you I thought I could die any day or any moment. I wondered, with a score that high, how was I still alive. Apparently, the plaque was building in my arteries for decades and I had no idea (maybe my score was 397 when I was your age, 42, who knows). Like you, I was obsessed. It was the uncertainty of not knowing if something terrible, some doom, was just around the corner that really freaked me out.
What I did was I started taking Prozac for about 6 months. I needed to get a grip, a boost, and that really helped reduce my anxiety.
It's been about 3 years since my test results and I'm ok now.
You had asked in a previous post if there were any positives. Well, maybe. I've made the lifestyle changes and I think I'm now the healthiest I've been in my entire life.