V02 Max
So just a brief background, I have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm) and it was discovered at the age of 13 after a cardiac arrest, skip forward several years, now 37 with fairly advanced heart failure, considering transplant work up and I attempted to perform a V02 test last December to get a better idea of where I was at and only a few minutes in, I told the people running the test my legs were tired and I needed to sit down and I just did not want to push myself much further because I didn't want to pass out/vomit in the mask. I bombed the test however this test was done early in the morning before I could really eat/digest something, drink enough water etc. Thinking about it now, I think my anxiety got the better of me and my body just told me to stop because I have been told all my life to not push myself when I'm tired. Now, I have to get on this treadmill and push myself until I'm tired. I know I have trained medical staff there and I am good hands but I'm still nervous to repeat it. I think I'm going to do really bad again. The physicians don't feel my test correlates with how symptomatic I am which is not really at all until I am physically pushing myself. Anybody have experience with finding a way to calm or center yourself prior to the test to reduce that anxiety level? I am dreading this test.