Yikes. As a runner & half-marathoner myself, this scares me. I should get a cardio work up but I’m pretty sure my health insurance wouldn’t feel that’s indicated. Gotta love how the government regulation of the health insurance industry has basically cut us all off from accessing care. Wasn’t the focus of health reform supposed to be preventative medicine? What a joke.
“I should get a cardio work up but I’m pretty sure my health insurance wouldn’t feel that’s indicated.”
You can get a lot of health information through self-ordered testing. Get a CIMT (carotid intima media test) to determine if you have vascular risk, especially unstable plaque. Get a comprehensive blood test (such as through Life Extension) and be sure to include VAP or NMR lipids, inflammatory markers such as HsCRP and Lp-PLA2(PLAC2), fasting sugar plus HbA1c.
Don’t wait for insurance. Take some responsibility for your own health.