About a month ago I had my annual checkup by my cardiologist. He decided to give me the full meal deal, echo, ekg, stress test etc. Results came back showing no abnormalities. So, about two weeks after the test I was in my yard doing some cleanup when I started getting chest pains. I come in the house and I chew up some aspirin. Wife takes me to the ER where they give me nitro. They ended up giving me a nitro patch. Talked to the on call cardiologist and given my history she felt they needed to go inside and see what’s gaining on.
I have two stents, 2011 and 2012. At the time I had four arteries with problems, two severe which they scented and two that were marginal. They treated those with medication. The stent I got in 2012 is what they call caged stent which is in a junction of two arteries.
After visiting the cardiologist last Monday it’s about 50/50 on bypass. I’m scheduled for an angiogram on Tuesday. Hopefully it just needs stents. If not I’ll be out of the loop for awhile.
