I would just like to say

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jamesmartin said:
they put me on blood pressure lowering pills i didnt know i was on,a a few months later having an op on my arm they took my blood pressure then asked how i felt as my blood pressure was far too low,youd think theyd have you back to check when giving you new tablets
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Sadly docs don't do common sense too often, in my experience, which is why i always ask them questions about follow up treatments, what to do if this, if that, and I never expect them to have read my notes before i go to see them. I also go to nearly all wifey's appointments with them for the same reason.
I do have some sympathy for them, they have to work like fuck now to keep up with all the protocols post Shipman etc i am talking GPs particularly here.
I once went on my practice's website and found out of all the docs, and there are about 20, only one was full time. So I asked my GP why that was, and he explained that any GP who worked full time in that practice would be off on sick leave in short order. One did try to do it and was forced to go part time. So I suppose that was the one I saw. and they all complain about the lack of time they can spend with each patient, which is stressful for them as they must worry they are not doing the job properly.
I think some of this dates back to the time when the GPs were given a stupidly high payrise. the govt realised but couldn't cut their pay, so they had to make them work harder to compensate, leading to the present situation where very few want o become GPs.
But others more in the know will qualify what I am surmising here.
 
neilly said:
I had to go back a few times to argue the levels they put me on. My BP was so low it was a joke, I said to them I have never had high BP, but they just decide on a protocol. I thing this is the biggest problem. They have a dedicated package and they do not allow for personal treatment.

Cheers
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Think a lot of us are singing from this hymn-sheet here!:):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Sadly docs don't do common sense too often, in my experience, which is why i always ask them questions about follow up treatments, what to do if this, if that, and I never expect them to have read my notes before i go to see them. I also go to nearly all wifey's appointments with them for the same reason.
I do have some sympathy for them, they have to work like fuck now to keep up with all the protocols post Shipman etc i am talking GPs particularly here.
I once went on my practice's website and found out of all the docs, and there are about 20, only one was full time. So I asked my GP why that was, and he explained that any GP who worked full time in that practice would be off on sick leave in short order. One did try to do it and was forced to go part time. So I suppose that was the one I saw. and they all complain about the lack of time they can spend with each patient, which is stressful for them as they must worry they are not doing the job properly.
I think some of this dates back to the time when the GPs were given a stupidly high payrise. the govt realised but couldn't cut their pay, so they had to make them work harder to compensate, leading to the present situation where very few want o become GPs.
But others more in the know will qualify what I am surmising here.
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after the op, i obviously stop taking the blood pressure pill and rang the doctors to tell them , they werent happy about it at all , i said surely if you thought i needed my blood pressure reducing youd have me back to check after a week or two to ensure it was then correct, and the hospital had insisted i stop ,that was a good few years back and i dont take a blood pressure pill and my blood pressure is normal
 
neilly said:
Mine was taken off......boyo, the amount of blood was interesting..I made the mistake of flexing my wrist after the clamp was removed...OOOOppps.

The nurse grabbed my wrist. then suggested I grab it while she got help as I was in a room she could not get a shout for help easily ( was the intensive care cardiac unit) , next Nurse in took over, grabbed my wrist with a dragon claw, I did point this out and she said, " better than you dying"... But those wrist clamps are fraking painful.

Cheers.
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Eye wud have fainted if that happend ter me.
 
Morning zoomers........

Apparently it was wild winds n rain last night (I never heard a thing)
Tables n chairs all over the place, gazebo upside doon & it was tied doon as well
all the ropes snapped so that will be for the tip then.

Off to buy some tarps, got a job to replace a roof on a cottage with me mate but its leaking (badly)
Hopefully get it covered so its not leaking for the folks & start on it next weekend. :)

It was replaced a few years ago & the new roofing was put over the old rotten one??
Some cowboys out there. :rolleyes:

Appy weekend you lot.:):)
 
neilly said:
Thing is I have taken the time to finesse my treatment as I am sure that @jamesmartin has to finesse his treatment. Now should we have to do that? no, we should not. But that is life.

You @Stanleysteamer need to look at it and decide if you need to be a medication or not.

Cheers
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I do see my doc every now and then, and monitor my own blood pressure with a machine exactly the same as they use, so I am watching that and can deal with it via a doc if it goes up. As for the cholesterol thing, although he says it is a bit on the high side, he cannot tell me if it is the bad one or the good one.
I have a touch of arrhythmia which I can monitor myself and it was when I took beta blockers, for it after it went a bit wonky one day, that i collapsed and they subsequently discovered that I have postural hypotension and had a meningioma. So after that was operated on I had to be given Levetiracetam, to lower the risk of another attack. It was like an epileptic fit but they couldn't prove I had it despite all their tests etc
They said the thing could just be "syncope" caused by the combination of the beta-blocker and the PH. I only carried the beta blockers as a "pill in the pocket" to be taken when and if my arrhythmia got a bit much, so they went in the bin.
So as you can see I, and the docs, monitor my health pretty regularly. I have to in order to keep my licence. After the op I had to have MRI scans regularly and these have now dropped off to bi yearly, and will drop still further if I continue to have no probs.
Having read this, and others like it
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/statins/side-effects/
I am really keen to just keep myself reasonably fit and pill free, and so far this is working. But yes, if the BP and/or cholesterol go up much further i would, unwillingly, consider taking them, or something similar.
As it is, I hate having to take the stupid little half pill I do take just to keep the DVLA happy!
 
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