Stress test - what do I have to look forward to?

[6APPEAL]

They will give you a radioisotope and take a baseline. Then Put you on the treadmill where they get your heart rate up and give you another.

After you have to go eat bacon and go back into the detector.

And on the colonospy it can't be that bad. Listen to Dave Barry

left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called ''MoviPrep,'' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America's enemies.I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes -- and here I am being kind -- like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.
The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, ''a loose watery bowel movement may result.'' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.
MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.
After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, ''What if I spurt on Andy?'' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

I remember that one by Dave Barry. Funny guy.:tongue:

 

[87action]

Now THAT is some hillarious sh?? on a serious note!

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Update, spent $2500 to find out my heart is in perfect condition. Guess that is sort of a good thing. I was fine with the treadmill deal except for the 16% incline at 4 mph. Was on it for 15 minutes. 5 decades of eating at McDonalds didn't clog my arteries yet.:smile:

Now that my deductible is satisfied on to the roto rooter job.

 

[Silver Fox]

Update, spent $2500 to find out my heart is in perfect condition. Guess that is sort of a good thing. I was fine with the treadmill deal except for the 16% incline at 4 mph. Was on it for 15 minutes. 5 decades of eating at McDonalds didn't clog my arteries yet.:smile:

Now that my deductible is satisfied on to the roto rooter job.

Mark,

Glad to hear the test went well for you. With your comments about McDonald's, I take it you may concerned with your diet/health. I would highly recommend you visit your local library or book store and look at a book called "The ABS Diet." I has some great advise about eating right and you do not have to worry about counting carbs, calories, protein, etc. It's about eating the right kinds of food, and eating often enough that you never really get that hungry (e.g., eating five times a day). It also encourages a high fiber diet, minimizing your intake of high fructose corn syrup, and making the best choices in foods when presented with several less than idea choices. The book is written in very easy to grasp/understand terms.

Everybody I have encouraged to go on the plan has lost a bunch of weight. One guy was even taking diabetes medicine and was able to get off the medicine because of his improved diet.

I would highly encourage to look through it and see if it would be something you could do. I follow it, as both of my grandfathers died of heart disease, and my father had his bypass surgery when he was in his late 50's.

As far as the Rotor-rooter, good luck on that one.

Rob

 

[charlief1]

Update, spent $2500 to find out my heart is in perfect condition. Guess that is sort of a good thing. I was fine with the treadmill deal except for the 16% incline at 4 mph. Was on it for 15 minutes. 5 decades of eating at McDonalds didn't clog my arteries yet.:smile:

Now that my deductible is satisfied on to the roto rooter job.

Glad to here it Mark but the last time I went to the doc with a back problem he found out that I'd not been for 5 years. He decided to have me run a stress test, and after all that I went in and he said no problem. then I asked about my back giving me problems and he replied, "that still giving you problems?'

Turned out that I had a bulged disc and 2 cracked vertibrea. Stupid SOB didn't listen in the first place and just padded his bill so he could make more money.

This took 2 months and I still haven't forgotten it. It's not about medicine any more but about money. Read all you can about staying healthy and stay safe.:biggrin:

 

[rmar]

Congrats Mark......:biggrin:


O and the Rotor Rooter can't be toooo bad Ty goes in every week for them......:biggrin:

 

[Ryan]

Mark,

Glad to hear your heart is ok. I know how you feel about the "first day of school" thing. I just retired from the Navy after 20 years. I start my new job in a week and I'm really nervous. Need to learn how to be a civilian again. I'd like to put out a recommendation for TR custom parts. All of my Turbo Buicks have had Marks stuff. The first thing I do when I get a new Buick is to look up buickgn.com.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Mark,

Glad to hear the test went well for you. With your comments about McDonald's, I take it you may concerned with your diet/health. I would highly recommend you visit your local library or book store and look at a book called "The ABS Diet." I has some great advise about eating right and you do not have to worry about counting carbs, calories, protein, etc. It's about eating the right kinds of food, and eating often enough that you never really get that hungry (e.g., eating five times a day). It also encourages a high fiber diet, minimizing your intake of high fructose corn syrup, and making the best choices in foods when presented with several less than idea choices. The book is written in very easy to grasp/understand terms.

Everybody I have encouraged to go on the plan has lost a bunch of weight. One guy was even taking diabetes medicine and was able to get off the medicine because of his improved diet.

I would highly encourage to look through it and see if it would be something you could do. I follow it, as both of my grandfathers died of heart disease, and my father had his bypass surgery when he was in his late 50's.

As far as the Rotor-rooter, good luck on that one.

Rob

Trying to do better on that. BUT, if I can't have my pizza and beer every Friday nite I would rather be dead. :biggrin::biggrin:

 

[SGRIM]

They put you running until you are at maxium RPM:biggrin:

Just hope they don't do like mine and loose the results over the weekend and have to redo it

Good luck buddy!

 

[jlat]

hello peoples; Doctors don't know everything and doing a PM on yourself is a good thing. I had a co-worker or passed a in depth physical and he was dead in 2 weeks. Family history is another thing.
good luck
time waits for no one
don't fear the reaper he's gonna get you sooner or later
IBBY

 

[Silver Fox]

Trying to do better on that. BUT, if I can't have my pizza and beer every Friday nite I would rather be dead. :biggrin::biggrin:

Oh, I forgot to mention that part. The author of the book says for one meal a week, eat whatever the heck you want to - so you can still have your pizza and beer on Friday nights. But he says to follow the plan strictly the other meals of the week. He says if you have cravings for the food you want and are restricting yourself from it, that your diet will fail. So he says eat whatever you want one meal a week, get the cravings out of your system, and realize next Friday you wil be able to have some more beer and pizza.

And he goes on to further state when you reach your ideal week, one day a week is yours to eat however you want, but follow the plan the rest of the week.

I am just a few years younger than you are, and my weight is about 20 pounds of when I graduated high school. The plan works, and it is not really that hard to follow.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

They put you running until you are at maxium RPM:biggrin:

I told them I am a Buick GN fan and it is more about torque than RPM.:smile:

Out for pizza and beer right now! :smile: Will have 3 slices instead of my normal 5-6! Beer part, well, will be a 2 pitcher nite shared with my old fart friend Jim, he usually does a pitcher and a half of the 2 pitchers we get.:smile:

My biggest problem is my wife (lots of people have that I suppose) she buys stuff I can't resist and I tend to grab whatever it is and eat it in front of the TV. If something isn't there I don't crave it.

 

[BobbyBuick]

Look Mark not that big a deal .I just had both piece of cake .only thing the stress test can lie to you on the results.I had one and it showed part of my heart not working.Long story short I ended up in the hospital getting a heart cath and I ended up being fine after they all freaked me out.But it will make you think on what to order for lunch tomarrow and to get on the Concept 2 rower

 

[83turbomon]

id rather die a slow painful death than go through what you went/are gonna go through.. if i ever get that old.. you have my permisson to kill me...

dont hold back...

 

[Ryan]

I wonder if you could calculate your treadmill results into Horsepower/torque?

 

[charlief1]

id rather die a slow painful death than go through what you went/are gonna go through.. if i ever get that old.. you have my permisson to kill me...

dont hold back...

Just for you Romone. Any questions? Still surviving but not by choice.:frown:

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[TR Custom Parts]

I wonder if you could calculate your treadmill results into Horsepower/torque?

I'm probably at the hot air TR range with 200K miles with no oil changes and a worn out turbo. AND a slipping trans.

 

[jlat]

I'm probably at the hot air TR range with 200K miles with no oil changes and a worn out turbo. AND a slipping trans.

hello; Well if that's the case you know what to do. Just make sure all you parts work together, don't forget to tune and be careful of the knock.
IBBY

 

[Silver Fox]

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[charlief1]

I'm probably at the hot air TR range with 200K miles with no oil changes and a worn out turbo. AND a slipping trans.

I'm thinking more down the lines of a 3.8 NA 2 barrel that's worn out with a rod knock Mark.:biggrin: JK.:smile: