High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?
I have a calcium score of 1,950 which is extremely high which means I am at a very high risk for a cardiac event,heart attack,stroke or sudden death.
I take a statin and baby aspirin. I have never been sick, have excellent cholesterol, low blood pressure and I am not overweight. I have no other health problems and I have never been sick. But I feel like a walking time bomb which has caused me a lot of stress. I am 70 yrs old.
I wonder how others with this condition feel emotionally?
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I don’t know , as I remember all the stress the first test caused! I will talk to my Bale-Doneen Dr. About it.
Statins are what is needed. The confusion comes from inflammation being the cause of plaque build up. BUT once you have Build up started. It makes sense to slow down the build up, by eliminating a great % of the lipids. Yes statins have side effects, but it’s one or the other.
Carbohydrate, that is. Oops.
Low Carbohydrare Healthy Fat
What is LCHF? Thank you.
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 🙂 ).
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.
It generally means you have serious Atheroschlerosis. YOU Beed to get a CT-A. A quick east scan that will view your arteries themselves and give you a good idea.
Scared the hell out of me. I just hope that when the HA comes I can get 15-20 years out of a CABG
Crestor