In July 2014 I went to the MD and asked about my heart and high blood pressure. I was increasingly aware of it beating and after talking with friends decided I should get it checked. An EKG was done and the doc told me I might have already had a heart attack but she couldn't tell me when. She prescribed Atorvastatin 10mg tablets taken 1/day and referred me to the Cardiologist. I only took the Atorvastatin a few days and felt sufficiently uncomfortable (confused, dizzy, headache) I stopped it.

I went to the Cardiologist a few weeks later and he was surprised by the MDs comments and told me the only way to know was to do a stress-test on the treadmill with before and after sonagrams. One was scheduled and I showed up, but in pretty bad shape. I'm not sure if it was the stress, anxiety, or just a combination with an "off" period, but I was a basket case. It was all I could do to walk/run the treadmill, although the operator said I did far better than he thought I was going to do.

After the stress test I was called to come see the Cardiologist (on 9/25). She told me the test showed a possible blockage in one artery which was causing the heart muscle not to contract/expand correctly and that I needed a cardiac catheterization (where they enter the vessel to the heart and release a black dye they monitor with x-ray to see if blockage is present). I am scheduled for that now in mid-October. She also prescribed Metoprolol Tartrate 25mg 2x daily, which landed me in urgent care with side effects. Fortunately another EKG showed no heart prob so I got to return home.

There we are. How depressing it has been that no one in the scientific community seems interested in the possibilities of my experience. Given a chance to do it all over again I would have never attempted the stopping of Sinemet in the first place.