Shooting Star, your boyfriend may be allergic to nuts. He should be careful. It often begins with just a feeling of gastric distress.
I am not going to get a second opinion until after the re-test. It does take awhile to get an appt. at the Brigham, but it may also take me awhile to get an appt. with a cardiologist locally, too. The one my DH goes to is the chief of the dept. at our local hospital, but he is quite old and often "dozes" off during appts. He's been great for my DH, though, and treated him very aggressively when no one else did and my DH has been symptom free for 5 years.
As I was shopping today, looking at all the people in the grocery store, I keep wondering, gee, they are all out of shape, overweight, and they probably will live longer than me.