I had the whole cardio routine run when I was having those heart palpitations year before last. Even with cholesterol of 210 and high triglycerides, I had NO underlying heart disease. My regular doc had put me on digoxin to prevent palpitations; I even had them while ON the meds! He also put me on warfarin (coumadin) to keep the blood from pooling in the heart chamber and causing clots, which would increase the danger of stroke.
When the Cardio guy gave me all the numbers and info and said there was no disease, I asked him if he thought I needed to be on the meds and he said if it were up to him, he'd take me off of them. I used that info and bullied my doc to take me off BOTH meds, and asked him what warfarin does that an 81mg aspirin doesn't do. He said not much, so I just take an aspirin every day. I still have palps from time to time, but as we've discussed, I think they're hormone related. Also, since my cholesterol has come down, the ratio of HDL/LDL is good, and my triglycerides are down, I'm in even better shape than before!
I would really like to know if the high cholesterol has impacted my vessels...if I have a blockage beginning. I'm gonna talk to him about it tomorrow.
I really want to take a vey conservative approach to treatment.