The results are in!

Dr. C from B&W called several days after the CT-scan. They didn't find any masses or tumors or ligaments or ribs or whatever poking into my artery so they eliminated that as the cause of the vasospasm which caused the arhythmia which caused cardiac arrest. Like my suburban cardiologist, she also ordered a bloodtest for my C-Reactive Protein level. Interestingly the test I had done at 8:30 showed it at 4.2 and the one at 11:45 at B&W was at 3.5. Anyway it's slightly elevated and is considered a marker for potential heart disease because it indicates a propensity for inflamed viens.

The solution is to take cholesterol medication (Crestor), which I am now doing even though my cholesterol is okay. So I'm up to 4 pills plus a vitamin every morning.

Before I added the Crestor to my regimen, I thought I'd try an experiment to see if the cramp in my throat and chest would show up if I didn't take the other drugs then went running, or if the lack of the cramp over the last 6 weeks has been because I wasn't taking the cholesterol medecine perscribed in the hospital. So I went for a run in the neighborhood before taking my meds. I couldn't even make it .3 miles before it started. So I don't know what the problem is (esophagal spasm was one guess), but I know the solution--take the isosorbide and nifedipine before running.