Originally Posted by
SJL
I had my exercise stress test the other day and was surprised how difficult it was, I got to the stage where the incline on the treadmill was quite steep and I was at running pace but I asked for it to be slowed down before reaching the sprinting up hill stage as I was getting quite out of breath. My max heart rate was 196 and I experienced no palpitations (thuds in chest) which was a shame as that's why I've been tested to try and trigger and capture it. The problem was my resting heart rate sitting down after the test was still 120 after an hour, they won't let you go until it drops below 100 and were nearly at the stage of administering a drug to reduce it, thankfully it dropped below 100 about 20 minutes later. The guy there was quite perplexed as he said this is usually caused by a rhythm disturbance but after looking over the many ECG printouts in the hour and a half I was there he couldn't find any rhythm disturbances but I did hear him mention some irregularities about T wave inversions (I probably shouldn't have googled this).
I now have an echocardiagram booked to rule out anything structural causing it. It's strange because even though the results weren't great and I still don't have a clue what causes my issues I've felt a lot calmer since then as I know they are taking it seriously and trying to get to the bottom of it.
Has anyone here had similar issues?