+1 for the ddimer.

I hate to be a soijack consoomer here and I know that cardio monitors on smart watches are not infallible but my watch did tip me off about being in afib which ended up being clots (and who knows what else I have a note to schedule a follow up echo cardiogram). Caught it and treated it early enough to have the ddimer in a normal range within the space of a week.

try to feel around your rib and chest muscles and see if you can locate the pain outside of your rib cage — when I can push on the spot and feel that in abdominal or chest muscles , that’s not my heart.

cardio monitoring at rest and activity can tip you off about declining health, if you’re getting up to 160 just checking the mailbox on your porch for example, you might feel perfectly fine and have no idea if you weren’t logging heart rate and blood pressure. I do have some issues , but the fact I have two years of data helps me frame it that “while that’s not great, it’s also not abnormal for me.”

Sedentary lifestyle, working from home , isolating, society being shut down, that will catch up with you. It’s been hot as hell where I’d been staying , so much that I couldn’t tolerate any outdoor exercise whatsoever, I just moved to a place about 20-25 degrees cooler because I have to move around and get some exercise , frankly I should be in a damn cardio rehab program but no interest in returning to the US whatsoever