Hypoxia and Medicine

medical professional-i was told my ECG abnormal,T wave abnorm..consider.inferior ischemia..should i exersise?

and should i go for more medical advice,and if so, does this need prompt medical follow up?..days> weeks? months??? ty:)

Public Comments

1. Nope, u need to be cleared by your physician, don't let anyone on here tell you it's ok. It is good u didn't have an infarct but without seeing you EKG and a complete H&P i can't say yes or no, play it safe and go with no. You can also call you doc or his group (someone is always on call) to answer questions like this, don't trust you life with idiots on yahoo answers.
2. The evaluation of chest pain can be very difficult. It is possible to have a normal resting ECG with considerable narrowing of the coronary arteries. Exercise testing was developed in the 1950s with the Bruce protocol published in 1963. It is now a well established technique. You do not state any details of the T wave abnormality - T wave elevation of >1 mm in leads without Q waves is also abnormal. It suggests severe coronary artery disease and poor prognosis. T wave changes such as inversion and pseudo-normalization when an inverted T wave becomes upright are non-specific changes. You would be advised to consult your cardiologist with regard to this question and explain the type and extent of the exercise that you anticipate. On the basis of your question, exercise – as in daily movements – should be carefully monitored until you are seen by your doctor. The details of ECG reports are technical and I will, therefore, not post a link with details of ECG readings. Hope this helps matador 89
3. I agree that you should follow the advice of the first answerer, Drjrumble,in contacting your physician before you make any decision. He is right on the money in that instance.However, if you follow all of his advice you won't listen to him as he is just another one of us " idiots" on Yahoo ?
4. The way you're phrasing the question is exactly the type of phraseology printed out on EKG machines when the machine itself uses software to attempt a diagnosis. You need to talk to a real living person, ie. the doctor who read the EKG as these machines only get it right less than half the time. Another possibility is that the technician put the lead wires on the wrong limb (it happens with much greater frequency than most doctors admit) "Inferior Ischemia" means that the inferior wall of the left ventricle (the chamber that does most of the heart's work) is experiencing a deprivation of oxygen. On the EKG, anything related to it is seen on the limb leads II, III, and AVF, and may be indicative of a blockage in the Right Coronary Artery. Either way, you still need to talk with your doctor before you consider any physical exercise. Ralph