Cardiology appointment - stress test

Assalamualaikum,

As you all tahu in previous blogpost I ada bagitau yang I sakit dada and will be seeing a cardiologist.

So yesterday was my appoinment day with Dr Mohd Daud  at KPJ Damansara.

Doktor ni I pilih randomly jer dari directory KPJ ialah sebab this is my first time just doktor pakar jantung. Selalunya I jumpa Dr. Malik jer for my neck slipdisc pain.

Make sure you make an appoinment before you come because doktor ni busy and appoinment selalu penuh. I tried making the appoinment last week tapi dari Rabu sampai Sabtu semua full. Alhamdulillah dapat jumpa yesterday. Rupanya ada reason kenapa appoinment semalam. Later I'll tell you guys.

So after explaining the reason why I came for the appoinment. The nice doctor buat check and advise me to go for a stress test.

Berdebar jugaklah nak buat stress test sebab this is my first time. Sebelum ni tak pernah lagi buat stress test. Stress test adalah untuk 'Determine if there is adequate blood flow to your heart during increasing levels of activity. Evaluate the effectiveness of your heart medications to control angina and ischemia. Determine the likelihood of having coronary heart disease and the need for further evaluation' (source: webMD).

Lepas dapat chit ni kita kena pergi "Special Diagnostic" where the Stress Test will be done.

Just a small reminder kalau nak buat stress test ni baik pakai sports shoes sebab kita kena lari atas threadmill. I semalam silap sebab I pakai selipar so I have to run kaki ayam.

Inilah threadmill tu.

 Tapi sebelum tu mereka akan pasang all the wires to your body sebab they have a machine to measure/monitor your heart activities.

mereka akan tampal benda ni dulu kat badan then only pinkan wayar

Jangan risau tak sakit pun.

machine yang akan monitor aktiviti jantung kita.

Nanti ada nurse in charge akan duduk sini akan tengok machine ni.

Actually ada 5 stage. Each stage dalam 3 minit.

So each stage dia akan set pace atas threadmill so kita kena dari jalan sampai berlari.

Disebabkan I memang sangat tak fit, sampai level 2 I dah mencungap-cungap dah.

5 minit lari rasa macam nak pengsan hahahaha.....tak adalah lari pun sebenarnya more like jalan naik bukit macam tu.

Buat malu jer sebab tak ada stamina sampai suruh the nurse stopkan machine, I dah tak larat. Berpeluh-peluh dan mencungap-cungap macam lari 30 minit sedangkan 5 minit jer atas threadmill tu =P

After the test kita kena bawak balik the result jumpa doktor balik.

Masa balik ke klinik Dr Daud, my husband was whispering 'eh tu CEO bla..bla..bla PNB'.

I dengan acuh tak acuh cakap 'tak kenal"

Bila dah duduk dalam klinik baru perasan that Tun Ahmad Sarji, Chairman PNB and his wife was in the same clinic with us. Starstruck kejap. My husband kata walaupun dah tua tapi Tun Ahmad Sarji masih handsome....which I agree. Must ask my father when he gets back from umrah samada dia kenal tak Tun Ahmad Sarji. Pastu keluar dari bilik doktor lagi satu Tan Sri ....but I tak dengar namanya sebab the Tan Sri bersalam dengan Tun Ahmad Sarji. Nampak tak kepochi duduk tepi tu but pretending not to bother hahahaha...

Ramai gak VIP jumpa Doktor Daud ni. But personally, I would recommend this doctor kalau you nak jumpa cardiology cause doktor ni baik sangat.

Back to my stress test result. Alhamdulillah my heart is fine but I lack of stamina cause orang biasa mesti lepas stage 3 but I tak tahan. So I need to exercise more to increase my stamina. Anyway, doktor kata orang perempuan yang tak ada kencing manis or high cholesterol and family history parents sakit jantung muda is low risk to sakit jantung.Conclusionnya, my chest pain is due to my rib bone. So doktor bagi I pain killers.

Anyway before I lupa, the stress test cost around RM270 (kalau I tak silaplah). Kalau sakit dada tu bawak-bawaklah pergi check.

Kesimpulannya, stress test ni bukan untuk check level kita stress dengan boss kita tau tapi untuk check jantung kita =) 

(my friend wanted to do a stress test cause she was so stress with her japanese micromanage boss......sabo jerlah ya Kak)