I'll be going to a new cardiologist this coming Friday and hope he is one that connects with patients. I have learned a lot since reading everyone in this forum, reading and listening to friends (some of the friends want to play doctor and keep pushing me to get stents mainly because their husbands had heart bypass surgery, they say I am ahead of the game...). I want to have the nuke, stress and EKG tests to see how my heart is doing but at the end of the day it comes down to "to stent or not to stent". If I do decide to go through an angiogram then there is not much to say. At that moment the doctor will ask me if I want the stents. Stents will reassure that my arteries will allow blood to flow with no problem. So it is a huge decision. I read many had higher calcium scores and pretty much managed to have a normal life without stents. But wouldn't one want to close this chapter of uncertainty -with stents- for a better tomorrow? Maybe my "doctor" friends are right and I live in denial....