Go for follow up. My friend cycled alot, hardcore also. Now at home, last 2 month have heart attack 2 stent deployed. You, 5km is peanut. You want to wait until have heart attack up to you.

No need to declare to potential employers. Stop worrying over nothing.
An angiogram is the only way to tell if you have blocked heart vessels.
Make sure you understand the risks of getting an angiogram.
Waiting at Government Hospital Serdang will take around one year or more unless if you have urgent priority.
IJN or PPUM would be a faster but more expensive choice.

Most common prescribed blood thinner is aspirin + glycine combo.

he like to eat friend chicken, drink curry and nasi lemak like me?

so how they treat blocked arteries?

i hope not surgery

When I knew him already jaga makan one. Younger life don't know. Cycling from Perlis to Penang. Going uphill downhill road. Blood pressure most of time normal. No meds require before this.

If that is how you eat, start control la. Someone control and exercise also kena already.

it is a form of surgery. the catheter wires are either inserted from your wrist or from your groin. it is done during the angiogram using a balloon to stretch open a narrowed or blocked artery or inserting a stent.

If the blockage is mild, no angioplasty is needed and the final cost is cheaper.

Do you take package for this check? Where is it?

CT angiogram.
But lu x de symptoms?
Low cholesterol diet, stop smoking drinking. And take the statin to hit the targetted LDL level. Then everything shall be fine

Columbia. i did not take their package as i want more than what their best package offered. I paid 6k for cta + echo + ecg + all others standard package stuff (including heart + various organs blood profile test etc)



I think CTA alone is advertised as 2.5k++ excluding consultation, but that one is just CTA.



If you want a more "comfortable" CTA process, the price is higher, my experience with ultravist 370 is not really pleasant.



btw, i cant find columbia kv price, so put the seremban one, kv price a bit higher.

edit: found it, kv is 2.7k



for those who are in their 40s, if you can afford it, i think you should go for it, the standard heart screening is not good enough, my uncle's standard screening result looks good, but then cta shows his main artery is 50% block.

This post has been edited by e46: Aug 1 2023, 11:52 PM

If 50% blocked, would stress test have indicated something? I went for treadmill stress test last year. Doc said results are good, i could go up to stage 4 and ecg showed ok.

Recommended do a yearly stress test, and followed up by other scan only if stress test results aren't good.

no idea bro, maybe 50% is not significant enough to be diagnosed in treadmill?

i think just top up 1.5k to get cta is safer bet lor, somemore can get a 3D Model of your own heart + CD as sovenior. might be a lifesaving data in future.

This post has been edited by e46: Aug 2 2023, 01:12 AM

I'm concerned about any risk of radiation from such scans, hence I asked the doctor when I should get a scan like ct scan, etc because I'm also worried about blocked arteries and what not.

Doctor implied, not necessary if I got do stress test and those markers tests. She also said chest x-ray pun not necessary due to radiation exposure. Maybe she's more kiasi than me.

very active exercise cycle alot also heart sumbat?

cholesterol n high blood pressure didnt check earlier?

I suspect never check, don't want to ask him at this moment. I think before this got indication blood pressure high that is why he started cycling. Il someone ask for advice I always say don't stress your heart. Especially if after 35. Just do casual exercise. Different story if doing it when still young. We heard alot of story died during exercise or active kind of person.

need to check lifestyle during young also

alot fatty foods, bad diets, alcohol, stress, not enough sleep, all these will add up

y not try change lifestyle n natural supplement 1st before go for western approach. jus my 2 cents.

That is why lot of people got problem only want to start exercise. Heart already not optimum but doing stressful exercise. Just overworking own heart. That is why know ownself don't do what healthy people do straight away. They been doing while their body don't have problem.

vry difficult to say a nowadays. some says effects from vaccine. some says our lifetstyle , some says our food nowadays causes too much inflamitory n plak builup in d blood wall.

What vaccine you jabbed? Ts

Yes. There is such a thing call over exercise. Studies have shown some athletes have heart attack cause exercise too vigorously without any rest.