I have had this done twice in my life. The first one was $600 and the second was a $99 promo.
I found in the second one I had a small calcium buildup. I got rid of the buildup with supplements, shown in a follow up X-ray I needed for an unrelated event.
No cheese?
What supplements did you use to remove your cardiac calcium?
What supplements?
Yes, I’ve had two also. I’m a firm believer in these. One in 2006 and again this spring. $99 each time. Around 20 of us at work took the Heartsaver CT scan in 2006. The person with the worst score did have a heart attack later. In 2006 I had 5 calcium spots with 2 being more than minor. This spring those 2 being more than minor became much worse. So it is tractable.
What thoroughly convinced me my VA cardiologist was a POS was because he was uninterested in the results. I entered my results through the VA messaging system as “for the record” to several individuals...
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You are talking “apples and oranges”.
The calcium that shows up on a CAC can’t be seen with a normal plain-vanilla X-ray.
CAC uses an ultra-fast CT.
Like I said, apples and oranges
I have plaque build up in my carotids. Its big question for me as to how that happened — plus whether or not the plaque is the dangerous soft plaque or the less dangerous hard plaque.
I’m thinking of going to a cardiovascular specialist. Its no cost since I’m on medicare plus supplemental insurance.
Then ask the guy to run some tests for me. I think if he prescribes the tests—then my insurance will cover it.
I’m reading a book by daniel trevor called the “unholy trinity” that refers to sugars carbs and the bad oils. In the back he has a group of tests inserted by a famous doctor—I’ve forgotten the guy’s name—maybe ford brewer—that will give a better definition of your cardio vascular health than what you get for your annual check ups.
My last numbers were kind of wierd. 47 ldl 48 hdl and about 9 for vldl. triglicerides were 43. I would think with those kind of numbers —I would not have a problem with plaque build up.
So I’m going to need more better testing.
Our local hospital does a free screening for this under a grant (multi million dollars) by a guy who had a family member drop dead from it out of the blue. When I got it the tech told me they never look at this no matter what cardiac procedure(s) one may have had. So I was glad to have it. Its non invasive and is like an ECHO Cardiagram. Or a Sonagram.