mrburden
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I just had to have a cardiac angiogram to check whether my heart is healthy enough to survive the stress of a kidney & pancreas transplant. I've been on the waiting list for a SPK transplant twice now and taken off twice as my renal function seems to dip and then improve again, but my renal consultant wants to get me on the list permanently now while I'm fit enough (though I don't think that I'll get on it again yet). My cholesterol is about 6.5 which, although it's high, is much better than the 11+ that it was some years ago before they put me on the tablets. I went in for the angiogram with a little trepidation, imagining that I would have some build up in my arteries but the angiogram was, as the surgeon said, a 5* result - no sign of any abnormalities or blockages at all. So I guess that although my cholesterol level is "too high", the fact that I drink very little alcohol, eat a healthy diet and never smoked has been the best medicine I could have had.
I just had to have a cardiac angiogram to check whether my heart is healthy enough to survive the stress of a kidney & pancreas transplant. I've been on the waiting list for a SPK transplant twice now and taken off twice as my renal function seems to dip and then improve again, but my renal consultant wants to get me on the list permanently now while I'm fit enough (though I don't think that I'll get on it again yet). My cholesterol is about 6.5 which, although it's high, is much better than the 11+ that it was some years ago before they put me on the tablets. I went in for the angiogram with a little trepidation, imagining that I would have some build up in my arteries but the angiogram was, as the surgeon said, a 5* result - no sign of any abnormalities or blockages at all. So I guess that although my cholesterol level is "too high", the fact that I drink very little alcohol, eat a healthy diet and never smoked has been the best medicine I could have had.
