Update about cardio appointment.

So the appontment wasn't exactly great, but not terrible either. He addressed that my pulse was pretty high for someone my age and my blood pressure was a little high for my age. (I did have anxiety and nervousness during the appontment though).


He said the he thinks the anxiety that I have and me being a bit overweight for my height contributes to the blood pressure/pulse issue a lot, he wants me to start exercising in small amounts and eating a lot better to try and drop weight before my next appontment next month.


It's funny cause he said (do you have anxiety right now? Because your heart is pounding) and he laughed and I said yes I always get nervous at appointments.


He set up a couple of tests throughout the month of May before my next appontment(stress test and echo). He said he thinks my anxiety contributes to the problem a lot but he wants to run the tests anyway to be safe.


I am hoping it all goes well, I won't know anything until I take these tests so it really didn't help ease my fears at all, and he really didn't seem to understand lyme at all and kind of just brushed it off when I told him I was bitten by a tick last year.


My urgent care doctor seemed more understanding of the tick bite than the cardio doc did. I am so sick of these tests and doctors and all this stuff and feeling cruddy all the time, all cause of a little darn bug, worst part is no one understands either, that I am not in control of my anxiety or stuff like that most of the time, it's a mess.


He wants me to start taking the celaxa as well cause he thinks it will help me a bit but I am hesitant kind of, but maybe I will try it who knows. It was good to get in and set up the tests and all but it didn't exactly help ease my anxiety. Although he did say my anxiety could be the problem and needs to be controlled.

Just wanted to update everyone, I feel so hopeless either way so I don't really know why I actually expected anything good out of this. Sorry to sound depressing, but it just sucks.

Hopefully all goes well next month and I'm cleared and okay, but I'll have to wait for now and just try to control my anxiety. Thanks for the support in my last post everyone!

Thank you, although the doctor was kind of condescending, he was alright I guess. He is confident that my anxiety is causing all this but only the tests will tell. Sucks that I have to wait to take them.


I wanted to get it all over with today and just do the tests but I found out that I have to schedule them days apart, which doesn't bother me but since my blood pressure and pulse are high it kinda just makes me want to get to the bottom of it right away ya know, and maybe(or maybe not depending on the result) ease my anxiousness.


All I can do for now is wait and diet and try to exercise a bit until then , can't really do much more, might as well try and get my mind off it for now and just take care of myself until the tests come around.

I told him I was a bit hesitant about the celaxa but I may try it. And yea Trav I found that a bit odd as well, he said he could prescribe me an anxiety med but he wants me to try the celaxa first.

I have a test next week and then the following week and then the follow up appointment later in May. He will see if I have to go on blood pressure meds, today was 140/90 and pulse was 100, although I did have much anxiety in the office as these doctors tend to make me a bit nervous lol.

Anyway just have to wait now until the tests are taken and the follow up appontment is done, just hoping it is all anxiety from the infections and nothing serious is wrong!(crosses fingers) lol once again thanks for the support, I will try to update again sometime next month with how things are going, and hopefully I can attribute this to anxiety and take care of that issue along with the infections, I mean it could be something wrong so I'm not gonna rule that out whatsoever! but I won't know until next month and I'm hoping its just my anxieties.