UGH...I must be living under a black cloud. I went for my stress echo today. Not sure whether these technicians are incompetent or what, but I have situs inversus (heart and organs are on opposite sides) and the technicians were all in a tizzy over this. I told them that they had to reverse the leads...big deal. Seems like they couldn't get a good view of all that they were supposed to. The doctor came in, a very young female doctor who hasn't been on the staff all that long. She wasn't satisfied with the results....ugh. She said something about my cardiogram having a slight change after I got off the treadmill but she couldn't say whether it was good or bad because the reading wasn't just right. Then my cardiologist came in and he said they never got a full frontal view of the heart and he was not satisified. NOW, I have to go back and have the Nuclear Imaging Stress Test. I was sooo trying to avoid this. That test takes 3 1/2 hours to complete, I still have to walk on that treadmill AND I was on pins and needles taking the test this morning because of my urgency issues.
I am going to phone the surgeon's office later and ask if all this is necessary before surgery. I suppose they want to play it safe, but the earliest they can perform the stress test is June 15th. My surgery is scheduled for the 28th but if I passed the test today, they were going to bump up the date. I am just sooo disgusted. Because of the severe pressure in the rectum and urgency, when I came home, I told my husband, screw it, I cannot suffer like this again and I took 50 mgm of prednisone today to try to get some relief. I feel like downing the entire bottle.