think I have angina

[mangaman]

Riverman - speaking as a medical man, it doesn't sound anything serious.

It's impossible to know, of course, unless you get it checked.

I know Soton General very well. They have one of the best cardiac units around.

I would go to your GP and say you get pain on exertion and you are worried you have angina.

Sadly, GPs have a tendancy to try to fob you off at times.

My answer (if it's someone I know - and I appreciate we don't know each other) is to say "I spoke to a consultant friend who suggested I ought to be referred to the Rapid Access Chest pain clinic".

This makes it almost impossible for the GP to refuse.

I'm not condoning conning the system / lying. If you fear you have angina, you have every right to a proper checkover.

It will be over in a week or so and probably entail a run on a treadmill.

If all's well you can relax in the knowledge you have a healthy heart.

Linkage below.

BTW - wear clothes you can run in, as you will probably get a fair way on the treadmill. It just gets steeper and faster every few minutes. The further you go without chest pain / ECG changes the better the result.

http://www.suht.nhs....painclinic.aspx

 

[The Jogger]

I had a treadmill test at st richards about two years ago and the doctor guy said it would be a while before they see anybody reach the level on the treadmill I got to.

 

[stavros]

What I'd like to know is how anyone could do 35mph on the flat on a MTB - slick tyres or not!. If you had any coronary artery strictures you certainly couldn't do that.

 

[TheDoctor]

What I'd like to know is how anyone could do 35mph on the flat on a MTB - slick tyres or not!. If you had any coronary artery strictures you certainly couldn't do that.

Well, probably not twice, anyway...

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

If I did 35 on the flat on an MTB, I think I would have to sit down, probably for a week !
30mph on my road bike with a tail wind was hard enough, and I cycle 8,000 miles a year !

 

[Crankarm]

35kmh?

.

 

[Riverman]

What I'd like to know is how anyone could do 35mph on the flat on a MTB - slick tyres or not!. If you had any coronary artery strictures you certainly couldn't do that.

Aye I was wondering whether he'd exagerated it slightly but he did tell me he driving right behind me at that speed on that bit of road. I'm thinking perhaps he may have been accelerating slightly at the time and overlooked this. However if that's the case I must have been going around 30mph.

Anyway that was probably the hardest I've ever had to work on a bike.

It's interesting though what occured before that. I'd just sprinted up a hill and stopped and got stuck in traffic which had allowed me to rest a bit but kinda supercharged my legs so the next thing I did was work about as hard as I was up the hill but on the straight because I was in a hurry. This was compounded further by the fact I was stuck in the middle lane of a three lane road before a junction with loads of cars behind me.

I'm not particularly fit though, I cycle a lot sure, I'm not that great a cyclist or athlete and hope it doesn't come across like I'm pretending to be. I could just put it down to extreme exertion but it's more the fact that it's happened to me before recently but without the exercise that worries me.

 

[Lien Sdrawde]

Riverman - speaking as a medical man, it doesn't sound anything serious.

It's impossible to know, of course, unless you get it checked.

I know Soton General very well. They have one of the best cardiac units around.

I would go to your GP and say you get pain on exertion and you are worried you have angina.

Sadly, GPs have a tendancy to try to fob you off at times.

My answer (if it's someone I know - and I appreciate we don't know each other) is to say "I spoke to a consultant friend who suggested I ought to be referred to the Rapid Access Chest pain clinic".

This makes it almost impossible for the GP to refuse.

I'm not condoning conning the system / lying. If you fear you have angina, you have every right to a proper checkover.

It will be over in a week or so and probably entail a run on a treadmill.

If all's well you can relax in the knowledge you have a healthy heart.

Linkage below.

BTW - wear clothes you can run in, as you will probably get a fair way on the treadmill. It just gets steeper and faster every few minutes. The further you go without chest pain / ECG changes the better the result.

[url]http://www.suht.nhs....painclinic.aspx[/url]

Good advice above... use it if you can.

Bad advice below... (from latest research and no knowledge of previous medical history) ... but given with good intent i'm sure.

If you're really concerned it's angina then take 75 Mg aspirin a day, at least until you get it checked out.

My Mrs deals with concerns like this in her day job - you wanna ring for advice, send a message.