Waiting for results

Gosh I’m not very good at waiting for results. I had no problem waiting 6 months for tests (myocardial profusion). But now I’ve had it I just want to know the results so I can hopefully move on so to speak. Don’t know what i’m expecting to move on from lol. I think it’s a mental thing. I just want to know how well things are working. It’s a year on Christmas Eve that I first ended up in A&E who initially treated me for a heart attack based on my Troponin levels. I think that’s played on my mind. The ‘did I’ ‘didn’t I’ question. MAU sent me home 8 hours later declaring it was a gastric problem 🤷‍♀️. I had a clear Coronary Angiogram in early Feb after ending up in A&E for the third or fourth time in January. So was again referred to the Gastric. But since then they’ve caught the ST Depression on ECG during one of my angina episodes. Meds they subsequently put me on are working now, yeah get the odd day where I know it’s a good job I’m on them. But they work and it would be good to draw a line where last Christmas was concerned. Answer the ‘did I’, ‘didn’t I’ question once and for all. Medics say not. But my confidence in opinions was knocked for about 5 months whilst going back and forth to A&E before the ECG proved my angina pain wasn’t gastric.

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Dear SloopyLJ

I really feel for you, isn’t life just one long waiting game? But the waiting will come to an end or it wouldn’t have be a wait in the first place.

I also realise that waiting for medical results can cause all sorts of problems.

please just get on with your life as best you can, then when the results are finally here , the did it , didn’t it happen will be answered and you will be stronger to face them.

Take care

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That’s a tough journey you’ve had. Uncertainty has been very much part of my journey, too. Over the years I have come to realise that medicine is more of an art and they deal an awful lot in probabilities, rather than certainties.But, like you, I would have much preferred to know exactly what was happening to me.

Hopefully, you will get some clearer answers when they discuss these results with you.

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When did you have the test?

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Only a week and a half ago. I was told it can be 2-4 weeks, plus it’s Christmas, and with the current situation feel lucky to have had it. Blue1958 hit the nail on the head really. I was just surprised by my own impatience for want of a better world.

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Hello

I always thought I was afraid of tests and to some degree I am but I have come to realise the bigger part in having tests is I am no good and it makes me even more anxious waiting for the results , I think it is worse than the tests and until I get them I just cannot shut of

Most of the time my worry I put myself through is for nothing but that does not help when I am waiting

My Rehab Nurse always says don't worry till there is something to worry about she is very level headed but easier said than done when you are not that way inclined

I hope you will get those results soon as I know how much it will help you to do so and when you do let us know how you get on x

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Thank you BeKind28 and I will do x

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