My Exercise Stress Test After a Seizure: A Health Journey Update! || #ExerciseStressTest #HeartHealth #Hyponatremia

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Hello, everyone! Follow along as I share my experience with an exercise stress test, the final step in my health journey after a seizure in May caused by hyponatremia (low sodium levels, 121 mmol/L in the ED). My adorable toddler Spencer kept me smiling with his joyful energy throughout the process!    In this video, I show how the test went: electrodes were placed on my chest for an electrocardiogram (ECG) to monitor my heart’s activity. I walked on a treadmill as the cardiac scientist and doctor increased the speed and incline to raise my heart rate, while my blood pressure was checked regularly. They paid close attention to my QT interval (slightly prolonged post-seizure), which can signal risks of abnormal heart rhythms. Great news—my stress test results were normal!    With clear EEG and heart CT scan results, I’m relieved to wrap up these tests and now focus on maintaining healthy sodium levels to prevent future seizures. Huge thanks to my little Spencer for being my sunshine!    Have you had a stress test or tips for managing hyponatremia? Drop them in the comments! Like, follow, and turn on notifications for more health and mom life updates!   #HealthJourney #SeizureRecovery #MomLife

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00:00We're back at Gold Coast University Hospital for what will hopefully be the last of this

00:05avalanche of medical tests that was triggered by the seizure I had at home which we're really

00:10hoping was caused by low salt levels. So when they brought me into the emergency department

00:15my salt levels were at 121 which is critical levels but the reason I've had all these medical

00:22tests was there was also changes to my heart muscle so my troponin levels went up and I had

00:29enzymatic changes or changes in the enzymes or something in my heart. So a cardiologist came to

00:34see me in emergency department and they were checking two things whether there's been a

00:40narrowing of the coronary arteries or whether an abnormal rhythm in my heart then caused the

00:47seizure. So I'm really hoping that's not the case. So today's test is the exercise stress test where

00:53I'll be on a treadmill I think with all sorts of leads on me or whatever and they're going to be

00:58checking my heart and I think they're going to be making me jog and I saw a funny post on

01:03X by Elon Musk and he said if you're ever worried about your mental health go and do a run and then

01:10you'll realize your physical health is so much worse than your mental health and you won't worry about

01:14your mental health anymore and so that's probably going to be me. I'm probably going to die of a heart

01:19attack on the treadmill itself but let's hope I don't.

01:25I'm just waiting here for the test to get leads all over me. I think I've been over it.

01:34Mommy? Yeah. So I'm all hooked up now. I've got all these leads on me

01:54and I'm going to be getting on a rather scary looking. It actually looks like a real treadmill

01:58so it does look like it's just actually come from the gym. So we're going to see how unfit I am

02:04and I'm very much hoping that they don't find any abnormal heart rhythms.

02:34Well I've survived. That was actually hard though because I had to get my heart rate up to I think

02:48it was 85 or something so oh Luke's shaking his head what was it? 171 or 160. I have no idea but

02:57anyway it was hard that was pushing more than I push myself on my normal pad walks but I felt really good

03:03after that bit of exercise to be honest. Like I took a few really good deep breaths and

03:07I think we should probably all push ourselves a little bit harder but the good news is they've

03:11had a very quick sort of scan over and it looks like everything's okay. So fingers crossed that

03:17the senior doctor who's just going to look over the results things the same.

03:25I'll be careful.

03:27That was funny wasn't it? Spencer was fascinated with me jogging on that treadmill and so it is a real

03:47treadmill well it's a medical treadmill but um but I was supervised I had a doctor in there

03:53supervising and a cardiac scientist doing the actual sort of test like so all the leads and

03:58everything so that was genuinely exciting and um yeah I'm just really glad because obviously the

04:06results so far they are gonna they are getting a senior doctor right now to check it and then the

04:11junior doctor will come back and just hopefully give me the okay but the thing to take away from that

04:17was I actually felt really good pushing myself to do exercise because I was pushed harder than I

04:23pushed myself even on power walks I don't push that hard but after pushing that hard I actually felt

04:29better like I was able to take a few really deep breaths which felt really good and it did entertain

04:35Spencer a lot so I might have to put him back in the pram and do some real power walks find some

04:39things in surface paradise not that there's many but basically I feel good actually actually good

04:44pushing myself so I do think that I will take that away from this test to try and push myself a

04:51little bit better for knock-on effects like then um you know less insulin resistance um you know lower

04:58resting heart rate lower blood pressure so there's a lot of knock-on effects so now we're just waiting

05:03and hopefully it'll be all clear yay so the doctor came to me and he hesitated for a minute like and I looked

05:13at the look on his face and I thought oh no they have found something but but no it was all good

05:19he said sorry I was gathering my thoughts anyway so the senior doctor looked at the results they've not

05:25changed in my q10 interval that's what they were looking at to see um because apparently I had a

05:30longer interval between I don't know q10 whatever like it's a bit technical I'll try and put in the

05:36metadata what it was I'll look it up but anyway so that's very good news there were no abnormal

05:41rhythmies and I just said I'm ready to go and to come back if I'm feeling unwell

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