traig
September 8th, 2005, 04:49 PM
Some of you are familiar with our situation from some posts I made in the anti-coagulation forum about my wife's recent surgery (see this update (http://www.valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12694) and my original post (http://www.valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12276) if you're interested).
My wife is supposed to undergo some physical therapy for a while as part of ongoing recovery from her stroke. The therapists weren't sure how far they could go with her therapy so they asked her to take a stress test and have her doctor evaluate the results.
We're still waiting for the eval but the test was this morning. She's on Toprol, 12.5 mg in the morning and at night in order to get her resting rate under 100. She said she was able to go about 10.5 minutes on the treadmill, where they upped the incline once a minute. My wife was in good shape before and even during the pregnancy but her endocarditis and the MVR and AVR surgery had their impact and she has to build her strength back.
Her concern is her heart rate. She started around 100 before the test and got to a max of 185 during the test, even w/ the Toprol. Nearly two hours after the test was over and she was home resting, she was still around 120 bpm. Is this normal? I said that the beta-blockers would interfere with the rate coming back down just as much as going up, but she didn't feel like that made sense. I said I'd see if anyone here had any post-surgery stress test experience to relate.
My wife is supposed to undergo some physical therapy for a while as part of ongoing recovery from her stroke. The therapists weren't sure how far they could go with her therapy so they asked her to take a stress test and have her doctor evaluate the results.
We're still waiting for the eval but the test was this morning. She's on Toprol, 12.5 mg in the morning and at night in order to get her resting rate under 100. She said she was able to go about 10.5 minutes on the treadmill, where they upped the incline once a minute. My wife was in good shape before and even during the pregnancy but her endocarditis and the MVR and AVR surgery had their impact and she has to build her strength back.
Her concern is her heart rate. She started around 100 before the test and got to a max of 185 during the test, even w/ the Toprol. Nearly two hours after the test was over and she was home resting, she was still around 120 bpm. Is this normal? I said that the beta-blockers would interfere with the rate coming back down just as much as going up, but she didn't feel like that made sense. I said I'd see if anyone here had any post-surgery stress test experience to relate.