I get a physical roughly every 18 to 24 months. Always been in decent health a little overweight but nothing serious.
I went end of February for my physical and the doctor heard something in my heart so he sent me for an echo. 5 days later I was having open heart surgery to correct a valve that failed and was having 70 ml of backflow. That's almost 2.5 ounces going backwards per beat. My heart was enlarging because of this but it was caught before it got to bad.
I was not putting my symptoms together. I was more fatigued but I blamed it on other factors. I was having occasional blurred vision and actually saw the eye doctor about it. She said to much coffee, made sense to me.
Point is take care to get that stupid physical that you keep pushing off because you are to busy. The doctor may just find something that will save you from a much bigger issue. These things can sneak up on you quickly sometimes.
I went end of February for my physical and the doctor heard something in my heart so he sent me for an echo. 5 days later I was having open heart surgery to correct a valve that failed and was having 70 ml of backflow. That's almost 2.5 ounces going backwards per beat. My heart was enlarging because of this but it was caught before it got to bad.
I was not putting my symptoms together. I was more fatigued but I blamed it on other factors. I was having occasional blurred vision and actually saw the eye doctor about it. She said to much coffee, made sense to me.
Point is take care to get that stupid physical that you keep pushing off because you are to busy. The doctor may just find something that will save you from a much bigger issue. These things can sneak up on you quickly sometimes.