Expert sports cardiologist - Exercise induced vasodepression?
Hi
I will try and keep this brief, for 2 years I have not been able to do the sports/particular exercise I've done for 30 years regularly - weight training, judo and rowing machine.
2 years ago, I had a bp/hypertension scare and took myself to the hospital and now on amlodipine and ramipril at the age of 50 (never been on BP meds before always borderline).
Initially the hospital blamed my weight - so I lost 20kgs in 3 months (gave up weight training, 4 litres of water a day, 10,000 steps a day and intermittent fasting) and it made no difference to my blood pressure... turns out I have hereditary hypertension... my bp is now currently approximately 130/80 with medication..
Moving on, when I do judo now, weight training or go on the rowing machine... my head feels "fuzzy" after doing these particular exercises and I don't feel right for sometime - I have given up for now doing these sports/exercises due to feeling "fuzzy" afterwards..
However, I can play football (soccer), swim and walk fine.
I have had multiple ECGs, multiple stress tests (completed tests fine didn't stop early), MRI done on my heart, blood tests, and every other test I can think of - only thing flagged was my Aorta was thicker, and my 1st cardiologist coudn't help me any further explaining why my head feels "fuzzy".
As I couldn't get the answers I needed from that cardiologist, I looked searched for a sports cardiologist, and have seen them - but I have been waiting on their report (3 months chasing report extremely busy in demand sports cardiologist) to come back to me to conclusively diagnose what my issues are/might be - they said I might have "exercise induced vasodepression" and potentially this could be managed by maybe adding a beta blocker and changing my medication amlodipine & ramipril but they needed me to re do ECGS and exercise stress tests which I have done and waiting for them to review...
As I can't/don't want to wait any longer I would like to know if anyone knows of a subject matter expert anywhere in the world who I could forward on my medical notes/tests to, to review and potentially diagnose "exercise induced vasodepression" seems to be quite rare/my symptoms as my patience has run out trying to get answers.
Also I read somewhere that a tilt table test might be worth doing - has anyone had any experience of this as I have not done this test yet.
If anyone anywhere can provide any links, recommendations/pointers I would sincerely appreciate it.
Many thanks in advance
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