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I just had my first EKG ever.  Kinda boring, was normal, doc agreed it was not diagnostic for anything.  It's on the form though.

Oh, this is the weather thread, my bad, it's hot outside.

I got freaked out a few years ago because once I started monitoring my heart rate (via a HRM strap first, then via my smartwatch) I started to realize that my heart rate was NOWHERE near the "220-age" guideline...

I was hiking with buddies and remarked my HR was 179, and they looked at me like "how are you still upright and alive?!?!" I was huffing and puffing a bit (we were halfway through a 3000 ft vertical climb), but I was fine. 

Couple that with some arrhythmia in my family history, and I was worried. This was right around the time I'd gotten divorced and met my wonderful [now] wife, so I was maybe not interested in my heart exploding if I kept up the strenuous hiking. 

So I went to a cardiologist, got a 24-hr holter monitor, followed by a stress test. Did the stress test and he tells me "you did much better than most of my patients", which should sound great but most of his patients are geriatrics with heart problems!

Long story short, apparently my peak heart rate is somewhere in the 203 range, where "normal" for my age would be around 178. 

Yet another area of life where I'm way out on the long tail of the distribution. 

I just had my first EKG ever.  Kinda boring, was normal, doc agreed it was not diagnostic for anything.  It's on the form though.

Oh, this is the weather thread, my bad, it's hot outside.

I had my first Ekg about a year ago, thought I was having a heart attack, turns out it was my esophagus spasming causing a lot of tightness and pain in my chest area.

I get the privilege of having my 3 "anal probe" in a couple of weeks. Doctors want me to do it every 5 years since my dad had colon cancer.  So far not even a polyp with the first 2.  

Very lucky, my sister and brother inherited all kinds of health issues, so far in 60 years none of them had shown up with me. 

Yes, it is very hot outside, currently 115

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I got freaked out a few years ago because once I started monitoring my heart rate (via a HRM strap first, then via my smartwatch) I started to realize that my heart rate was NOWHERE near the "220-age" guideline...

I was hiking with buddies and remarked my HR was 179, and they looked at me like "how are you still upright and alive?!?!" I was huffing and puffing a bit (we were halfway through a 3000 ft vertical climb), but I was fine.

Couple that with some arrhythmia in my family history, and I was worried. This was right around the time I'd gotten divorced and met my wonderful [now] wife, so I was maybe not interested in my heart exploding if I kept up the strenuous hiking.

So I went to a cardiologist, got a 24-hr holter monitor, followed by a stress test. Did the stress test and he tells me "you did much better than most of my patients", which should sound great but most of his patients are geriatrics with heart problems!

Long story short, apparently my peak heart rate is somewhere in the 203 range, where "normal" for my age would be around 178.

Yet another area of life where I'm way out on the long tail of the distribution.

Back in my Army aviating days, when I had to get annual flight physicals, my at-rest heart rate was usually at 60, which is at the bottom of the acceptable range.  Occasionally it would be 59, and then they'd have to retest me.

I don't think that I was going to be grounded or anything with 59.  But technically it's bradycardia, and it would have required a waiver IIRC.