over 75 health check

I think most GPs will give you a health check if you ask Rowantree Mine will do weight, BP, cholesterol,kidney function and so on. Sadly I won't be able to have him as my named doctor when I'm 75 as, if anything, he is a bit older than me and has already retired once.

Only just come in on this thread and I have to say that I do think the comments made to durhamjen were uncalled-for. She is quite right to be cynical about the present government's commitment to the NHS. We all need to be vigilant.
I think an over-75 health check sounds an excellent idea, but I have some time to wait for mine. Shame they don't do a 60-year-old check too....

Information, Ana. If anyone is on these drugs, they might want to try reducing the amount before it becomes law. You can't hide it if it's on prescription.

More doom and gloom...

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Just seen this in one of my emails. Does it apply to anyone on here?
I take lots of drugs, but none of these, fortunately.

Yes, well. That's me all over.

durhamjen you have made the mistake of thinking the NHS is run for the convenience of the sick and ill. It isn't. It is run for the convenience of the staff. Fancy making a mistake like that!!

Oh dear! I wonder if that happens very often. Hope not.

Better luck with the next one.

Want a laugh, jingle.
I had to wait for the garage to pick my car up at 9.25, with my appointment at 9.30.
Got there with my son's partner taking me, and she waited with my grandson in a new cafe nearby.
The nurse told me I would have to walk home with my arm out of my sleeve because of the equipment, so I said not to bother. However we worked it out, and I sat down in the cafe. The machine kept giving error messages.
I went into the chemists, so asked her and she said she had no idea as all machines are different.
So I came home, and it still kept giving the same error message. I looked it up on the internet, and it said batteries low. So I phoned the nurse, and she said they could not be low as they were rechargeable and it had only been used by one other person.
She told me to relax and not to check the screen all the time as it would put the reading up.
At 1.00 p.m. I realised that it had not worked for a while so checked the screen. Nothing on it!
I rang up again, and the nurse said that it wasn't possible that the batteries were flat, the machine must have a fault, would I take it back.
I took the batteries out and they were flat. But what do I know, I'm just a pensioner who uses rechargeable batteries all the time.
Haven't taken it back yet, as the garage did not bring my car back until after 5.00 p.m. No doubt I'll be told off for that.

Yes. I can understand that jendurham. Once you are really ill, the superficial fear of the doctors would go out the window.

Hope you get quite well again soon.

I was like that until last year, when I had an aortic dissection. Never went to a doctor for me, apart from to get a repeat prescription for thyroxine. Ending up in intensive care for a week and hospital for another three sort of puts you in the loop.

My BP is always high in the presence of doctors and nurses, low on other people's monitors at home. Last time I explained (yet again) to a consultant, he said 'but we haven't worn white coats for many years!' Like Jingle said, I just tell them I'll be in touch when I want medical attention. Pills make me ill!

No. No memory - like me really. (I never remember to use the thing.

Or is it, can't be bothered.

Oh no! Not saying anyone else's is down to white coat syndrome.

Has your monitor got a memory, jingle?
I have to have a 24 hour one because they think they might be giving me too much medication, which is making my blood pressure too low when they measure it. That's not white coat syndrome. Hopefully they'll be able to take me off a tablet. Beta-blockers, I hope.
My brother in law was put on beta-blockers recently to reduce his heart rate. His GP was pleased it was only 85 now. Mine's often in the 50s.

They threatened me with a 24 hour monitor. I explained that I get really bad "white coat syndrome", and when I check it at home it is very good!

Hope yours go well jendruham.

Ana Wad'ya mean? Wanna fight?!!

Sigh

Testing blood pressure is only one of the tests they do. There are cholesterol measurements and a urine sample is taken . MY DF, then in his late 80s had early bladder cancer picked up because he visited the Well Man clinic his surgery ran every year for an MOT. As a result it was found while it could be dealt with quite easily and he lived a normal healthy life. He lived to be 92 fit in mind and body, which is no mean feat.

Oh, that's rich, coming from you jingl!

I'm not following anyone around durhamhen, just reading the latest comments on the threads. I'm just fed up with your doom and gloom prophecies and government-criticising, and I'm allowed to say that, too.

I've got one, jingle, but I have to have blood pressure checks because I had a problem with my aorta.
Tomorrow I have to have a 24 hour meter to use, so as I was going to the doctors, I thought I'd book my car in for its MOT, go to the garage first, then the GPs.
Yesterday, I twisted my ankle and am having difficulty walking. So I phoned the garage, and they said no problem, they'll pick up my car.
Someone else has said they'll give me a lift to the surgery, so all sorted. The advantages of living in a village.
By the way, although the GP said a 24 hour blood pressure check, the nurse said we only do it for 12 hours. A practical example of NHS cuts?

Sorry, jingle, that STOP etc. was not to you.

Umm... That wasn't to me was it?

I agree with you. Mean remark Ana. And Aka.

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STOP following me around if you do not want to read what I say. It's your choice. I think I am allowed to say what I want on here. You must know by now that I am interested in politics.

Interesting article jendurham.

I think every practice should buy up a job lot of Lloyds Pharmacy home blood pressure monitors and isue one to every pensioner. That way we can keep an eye on our own blood pressure and not bother the doctor at all.

It's what I do.

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