High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

I'm working with a guy out west who has my wife on an anti cancer herbal treatment - which seems to be working very well. He designed something for me last month when I told him about by 2316 calcium score..

Cardio Five 150
Anthocyanins Advantage 150
Mag Buffered Chelate 120
UBQH 200 CoQ10
Ultra K 90
Fish Oil 120

I'm taking K2 vitamins from NatureMade and I'm also eating Brie and Gouda cheeses daily... A little worried about the cheeses because obviously they are also a source of calcium and calories... Best to live your life to the fullest and not back off ... the 10 year chance of a cardiac event is 20 to 40% but that also means 60-80% chance that nothing will happen... Good luck

Hi @kishanvasekar - can you share some of your regimen, vitamins and daily intakes that are a must for you?

Hi Group. I'm new and I read @zino post and wanted to respond. I wish I had a score of 702 like you did when you where 47. I'm 47 now and have a score of 1460. Being this young and feeling like a ticking time bomb has changed the way I'm looking at life. I'm unemployed but wondering if getting back into my field, Sales, is even something I should consider. I've been researching and understand that K2 comes from Gouda and Brie cheese. Is the vitamin as effective to get what we need? Also, I read that MK-7, found in Edam and Natto is very important as well. I'm now reading about how to change my diet. The vitamin cocktail for us with high Calcium scores is C,D3, E, Magnesium and K2 + MK-7. Anyone know the best brands to use? I understand there are a lot of bad vitamin brands that have great marketing but poor product.

My LAD is calicified.Survived Heart Attack in July 2011.Living Statin Free life.Suggest your consulting new Cardiologist.You May consider visiting India or UK .I can probably help if you wish.

@zino our numbers are not all that different. My cardiologist, when she saw my 2000+ score put me on 20 mg of Lipitor and a baby aspirin. I was ok with that until I spoke to the herbalist working with my wife who has ovarian cancer. She's been doing all the medical things prescribed by Memorial Sloan Kettering but he has her on an extensive program of herbs. Of course it's impossible to know if it's his herbs keeping her so healthy or just other factors. But as long as she's cancer free now we're sticking with his program. Well after talking to him and reading more research I decided to try what he was subscribing to me; anthocyanins, Cardio 5, CoQ10, Omega fish oils, Ultra K and Magnesium buffered chelate. He says Magnesium with the anthocyanins maintains elasticity in the arteries and keeps the from being brittle and developing clots. Omega 3 have some blood thinning effect and Cardio 5 works on multiple levels for vascular health, resting heart rate. He is stating that this kind of regimen can actually reduce the level of plaque in the arteries and there apparently is scientific evidence to support that.
Just read a study in Science Daily that is among the most encouraging things I have come across https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180419141523.htm They talk about doing a chemical adjustment to the CoQ10 and seeing arteries return to a healthier state. It's a must read. Anyway, I didn't like the idea of the baby aspirin being that some of the herbs I'm taking also have blood thinning properties. Eventually I believe I will no longer need the Lipitor. Medical doctors can't possibly know about all the developments in herb treatments. They just don't have the time or maybe even the motivation to study things outside their specialty. But before I started taking any of these supplements and researched the heck out of them.

My first Calcium score was in 2004 at the age of 47 and it was high, 702. I opted to just watch what I eat and stay active and took the test again this year 2018 and my score is now 1740. I do well on echo stress tests, and have borderline cholesterol numbers and high triglicerides. My doctors both cardio and generalists want to put me on statin drugs. I am resisting because I see tenuous benefits at best from the statin studies I have read. Most of those studies seem to include baby aspirins which tends to confuse the studies. I do take a baby aspirin a day. The other reasons is the side effects of statins are high, when I've tried them I had muscle pains. My other reasons for is that I've seen two elderly relatives on high dosage of statins and they both subsequently developed type 2 diabetes. I've tried to do a lot of research on the topic of high calcium scores and the only thing I found that might be of interest to this population is K2 vitamin, the claim is that it takes calcium from the arteries back to the blood stream and to the bones where it belongs. I am very skeptical, so I brought it up to my cardiologist and he had heard of it and recommended I get on it. So now I am on K2 vitamins and baby aspirin. I might get on the statins if I can find compelling research on their benefits. I would be interested in any article references on statins impact on calcium score and of survival benefits of statins for people with high calcium score.
Thanks and best of health to all with high calcium scores...

Hi @nyartist and welcome to Connect.
You'll notice that I moved your message to this existing discussion about high calcium scores. I did this so that you can meet others who have managed similar issues and may be able answer some of your questions about risk and blockage, or at least share their experiences and help you prepare questions for your upcoming appointment with your doctor. I'm tagging @degarden_girl @botexas @luckyg @keithl56 and @thankful to invite them back to this discussion.

NYArtist, it sounds like you've already started a list of great questions for your doctor. I'm not surprised that you've found conflicting facts about calcium scores related to risk. Risk is so multi-factorial. Only a physician consult will by able to measure the risk level specific to you. I suspect that your level of physical fitness and diet will play well in your favor. I might recommend that you let the herbalists know about the medications you're taking and the cardiologist about regimen the herbalist recommends. It's important that each knows what the other prescribesso that they can work together and be aware of possible drug, supplement and diet interactions. A pharmacist is also a great member of your team to help monitor treatment combinations. Will you be seeing the herbalist before you meet with the cardiologist?

@ nyartist Not sure who you are addressing in this post, but it might be me as in 2016 I went to Mayo in Minn, to have a parathyroidectomy. I had had a very hi Ca score for years and no one ever said anything about it until I moved into a retirement community, and then the Dr here mentioned it, but said not to go anything about it as at my age then 80 it was too risky. I asked around to find out what the risks were, and one person said I could lose m voice. Also I saw on the internet, that recommended finding a surgeon that does at least 3 a week successfully. So without further ado, I flew out to Mayo and was matched with a surgeon there. When I asked her how many she had done, I forget whether it was 45,000, or 4,500, but she said that is all she does, 3 days a week.

After a week of testing, the surgery was done one day and the next day I flew back to PA. And yes, I can still talk, though maybe there were some people that were disappointed.!!!!!!!!!!! @ gailfaith

hi @botexas We are so similar. I've been kicking butt on stress tests for years; backpacked all over the western US, 100 mile ride, boxing and sure as heck don't look my age. But the dang calcium score has put the fear of God in me. Just got back from the gym and the interesting thing is that since I got that score last week I've been going MORE to the gym and working out harder. My doc seems to think that my lifetime of physical exercise has protected me.