Perry2
10-10-2003, 10:48 PM
I am 43 years old and have been training pretty seriously for about 10 years(no juice). I had a heart attack scare about 5 weeks ago, where I went to a hospital for chest pain from the flue and was told it was heart related. They did an enzyme test which showed positive for Troponin which means heart damage as opposed to other tests which show positive from working out. The positive test was not actually a heart attack as the last cardiac specialist I saw said the numbers were not that high and all subsequent testing showed no damage. I believe the positive test was due to cocaine taken a couple of days before(stupid and no longer in my life) and the chest pain may actually have been heartburn BUT-I am treating it as a heart damage episode. I tried returning to the gym for a 2/3 workout about 2 1/2 weeks after the positive test, feeling fairly strong, but still with some lingering achiness from the flue. I did pretty well and did not notice anything wrong until I was doing my cooldown srtetching when my heart started racing pretty hard and I felt a little dopey. I went for another enzyme test a couple of days later and the cardiac enzymes were negative. The crappiness I felt could almost be related to trying to work out with the flue, but I can't believe this would still be an issue as the flue started about 3 weeks before and this was almost 2 weeks after the acute symptoms had resolved. Any H/A victims out there and what did your return to the gym go like?