My cardiac enzymes are elevated after doing heavy work. Should I be worried??

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Sounds like skeletal muscle especially since the troponin is normal. My CK shot up right after I started swimming - and is normal again. It is good to know what is normal for you but you may be over-analyzing this data a bit since it is on you. I think seeing a doctor tho is an excellent advice because lab values are only a part of the picture - that in combination with how your heart sounds, EKG readings and the like will paint a much better picture of your overall health and heart attack risk. Also - did you perform a lipid profile as well????How's your cholesterol and also how's your BP???

PS HIPPA and hospital regulations prevent us from performing laboratory tests on ourselves where I work - and if the tests are ordered by a doc, we are not allowed to look up the results! Bummer - i know....Show more

The standard of care presently weighs more on the side of troponins because they are more accurate. You would need to look at the norm for your lab. It's not a good idea to interpret lab results by yourself, even if you are a trained health care provider. Even doctors consult other doctors. How did you have access to run labs this close together outside a facility?...Show more

But the biochemical equality was only apparent. Committee members wrote, "The most recently described and preferred biomarker for myocardial damage is cardiac troponin (I or T), which has nearly absolute myocardial tissue specificity, as well as high sensitivity . . . . If cardiac troponin assays are not available," they continued, "the best alternative is CK-MB (measured by mass assay). This is less tissue-specific than cardiac troponin . . . ." Not so much a redefinition as a coup d'état.

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You are correct that this is skeletal muscle.

With a normal CKMB and normal Troponin, the enzyme elevation is not from the heart....Show more

Perhaps you shouldn't be practising medicine yourself. You are now in an ethical dilemma. Are you going to tell your doctor that you decided to order and run your own lab tests? How is your doctor going to respond to that? Also, you apparently don't really understand the results if you are posting your question here. Have you been trained to interepret your signs and symptoms, history, physical examination and labs and tests to form a diagnosis? If not, you should not be performing these....Show more