Not looking for medical advice here per se, but wondering if anyone has been flagged for an ST Depression and if so how that went for them.
44 year old male, no symptoms, but family history of heart disease so have been in for a round of tests. Bloodwork and ECG all good. Went in and did a stress echocardiogram with the dye injected, everything felt fine. My family doc got the results and initially was like "looks good" and then two days later he calls me and says actually we detected an abnormality (ST Depression) so I'm going to refer you to a cardiologist. He says if you don't have any symptoms I wouldn't be concerned. Anyways I'm waiting to see the cardiologist.
Seems like an ST Depression could be a bad sign though. I don't have the specifics as the exact nature of the depression. In the meantime I'm training as usual (currently doing a polarized thing mostly Z2 with more VO2 stuff like 30/30s). I am second guessing how hard I should be going on training though until I talk to the cardiologist. Like I said, my family doc didn't seem all that concerned, but I'm wondering if anyone else can share experiences being flagged for an ST Depression and whether it's possible it's benign or if it's one of those "ticking time bomb" things that doesn't cause any problems until it does.
44 year old male, no symptoms, but family history of heart disease so have been in for a round of tests. Bloodwork and ECG all good. Went in and did a stress echocardiogram with the dye injected, everything felt fine. My family doc got the results and initially was like "looks good" and then two days later he calls me and says actually we detected an abnormality (ST Depression) so I'm going to refer you to a cardiologist. He says if you don't have any symptoms I wouldn't be concerned. Anyways I'm waiting to see the cardiologist.
Seems like an ST Depression could be a bad sign though. I don't have the specifics as the exact nature of the depression. In the meantime I'm training as usual (currently doing a polarized thing mostly Z2 with more VO2 stuff like 30/30s). I am second guessing how hard I should be going on training though until I talk to the cardiologist. Like I said, my family doc didn't seem all that concerned, but I'm wondering if anyone else can share experiences being flagged for an ST Depression and whether it's possible it's benign or if it's one of those "ticking time bomb" things that doesn't cause any problems until it does.