Elizabeth > I refused to let the modern doctors "treat" me

Since you're new to the list, you've missed my worrying about this issue in the last year or so.  In a visit to my regular doctor at a routine physical last year we discovered a "premature heartbeat."  Don't know yet whether its source is atrial or ventricular -- I'm going to see a cardiologist in a couple of weeks to determine that.  (He actually doesn't even want to see me after seeing nothing on the EKG my doc faxed him -- but feels like he probably ought to go ahead and see me so that we can put this thing to bed).  I believe I've had this condition for years, but I'm not certain, since I remember having difficulty counting my pulse back when I was a serious runner in high school and early college.

Anyway, my doc sent me to a different cardiologist last year for a stress echo test.  They found "nothing diagnostic" since I broke the record for the treadmill (thank you, thank you), the sonogram looked clean, and my lipid profile (cholesterol) is outstanding.  I was told by this cardiologist, though, that my heart was a a little larger than normal so they wanted to give me meds to "get the size down."  Scary.  I refused since I believe the slightly larger size of my heart is due to the type of high intensity weight training I do (as well as perhaps my previous running).  Can't believe they'd screw with someone's body experimentally like that.
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