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To: Ilaine who wrote (29100)	2/3/2015 4:47:03 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 39347

Maybe next time get a CIMT? Carotid intramedia thickness testing. Tells you whether you have plaque in your carotid arteries. I had one of those a while back, maybe ten years. No plaque found but there was an undefined anomaly in the reading that was pursued, displayed to me, and finally brushed off. Turned out, a few years later, to be a kink in my left internal carotid. I discovered it myself--what seemed to be a pulsatile mass in my neck. Took a long time for my doctor to feel it, too, and refer me to a specialist because it was only palpable when my neck was in just the right position and I did not at the time connect it to the CIMT report. Felt like a tumor to me. Actually, one of her students was able to feel it when the doctor was out of the room. Turns out that what I felt was the kink, which kinks outward. Although I was told it was nothing to worry about by a big-time neck-surgery specialist from GWU, it's very strange and disconcerting. My fingers still absently gravitate to it all the time. Specialist told me to quit poking at it. No trouble finding and checking my pulse, for sure. <g> As long as my Agatston stays at or about 5 (down from 7 five years earlier) I'm not really worried about my arteries. Still, it's curious.