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If you had severe chest pain, and a troponin of 45, and got 2 new stents (that's new info you added)... then you had a heart attack... No two ways about it.

Sounds like something was lost in communications when they were explaining it to you. Severe back pain with new murmur can also concern folks about aortic dissections...but that wouldn't explain the positive troponin...

A troponin of 8-10 is considered quite high. 45 is off the charts, and doesn't sound right... (as someone else pointed out also)...

Troponin is an enzyme in your heart, that gets released when the heart cells are getting damaged/ripped apart... (in layman's terms)

Glad you are ok.

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Originally Posted by GWN7 (Post 9290678)

It was interesting. I was awake through the procedure. When the Dr. put the second stint in and then withdrew the wire (don't know what else to call it) I could feel the blood start to move thru my body again. It was like a warming feeling. Started in my chest and spread down and out. That and the fentanyl (turns out I reacted to the morphine) I was given, I felt great. :)

The back pain was the only symptom I had. No radiating pain, no jaw pain, no nausea, nothing. If I hadn't remembered a ambulance crew telling me about a woman who had a MI several years before and all she had was back pain I wouldn't have driven myself to the ER to get it checked out. The ER Dr. said if I had been able to find a comfortable place to sleep that night I probably wouldn't have woken up.

When they (same Dr.) put the 3 stints in my right he went thru both femoral artery's and my right radial artery. I was out completely for that one. Both femoral's leaked afterwards and didn't heal properly which caused other problems.

That warming feeling was the dye used, causes a flushing type sensation.

Maybe they use a significantly different unit scale in Canada, dunno.

Met with the cardiologist today. He increasing my Metoprolol to 50 mg 2X a day to reduce my heart rate.

I asked about the troponin levels. In Manitoba they use two scales. For example he said the night of my MI (in March) the levels were 4000+. So 45 is cause for further investigation it is not as dangerous as first thought.