When one is excited, walking fast, climbing a staircase or running – the heart rate increases puttin it under “Stres”. Stress tests are noninvasive procedures that they provoke and detect signs of decreased blood supply to the heart muscle. This is done by the use of exercise employing the treadmill, bicycle or handgrip. If one is unable to exercise because of orthopaedic conditions, old age or other problems, then non-exercise modalities area adopted. Stress Echocardiography helps to detect myocardialischemia at stress.
Ask yourself with the following questions, and if answers are yes, you are greatly in stress condition.
1. Do you feel angry or irritable much of the time?
2. Do you suffer irritations from repeated thoughts or actions in a day?
3. Do you have feelings of lack of self-worth?
4. Do you feel constantly guilty?
5. Do you find yourself unable to concentrate?
6. Do you get aches in your back and shoulders?
7. Do you suffer from insomnia, nightmares or simply wake up still feeling tired?
8. Do you suffer from breathlessness?
9. Do you feel constantly tired?
10. Do you suffer from sweaty or clammy hands?
11. Do you pick fights with people?
12. Do you set yourself unrealistic deadlines?
13. Have you found either that you are overeating; or that you have entirely lost your appetite?
14. Do you work longer and longer to achieve the same or less?
15. Are you too busy to relax?
16. Do you rigidly stick to routines?
17. Do you have mood swings dramatically?
18. Did you had a bad moment in the last 3months?
19. Have you not relaxed / vacationed in the last 3months?
20. Having sex difficulties or irregularities?