Intelliheart a lifesaver for Carmel
Melbourne businesswoman and charity worker Carmel Thomas says Intelliheart saved her life. Carmel, 66, had a horrendous family history of heart disease and a life full of stress. But something always stopped her going to the doctor to get checked.
Then her husband brought home a story from a Rotary lunch where an IM Medical person had been talking about Intelliheart and how easy it was to check your heart risk. "It sounded fantastic. It didn't involve the long process of going to the doctor, then being referred to a specialist, then getting things stuck into you for weeks," Carmel explained. "It sounded more like taking your car for a quick check to make sure there was nothing seriously wrong. "So I went along for the Intelliheart. It was easy and pleasant and nice. But the results really woke me up. I had a 30 per cent blockage in my aorta and the beginnings of arteriosclerosis.
The IM Medical doctor told me to go start changing my life - like walking 40 minutes a day - and go to a specialist. I went to a cardiologist and did a stress test. During the test, the specialist said I was having ischemic strokes. He did an angiogram and confirmed everything Intelliheart had shown." Carmel, a Brighton mother of three, says that looking back, she can see that she was a cardiac time bomb.
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