For some years now I have received emails from an NHS funded health site. Basically it asks for height/weight/BP/exercise etc and then calculates your healthiness or lack of. The cholesterol question always defeated me, so I asked my GP surgery if I could have a test. I should add I am 70 and have never had my cholesterol tested.
The practice manager grudgingly agreed and an appointment duly made. The phlebotomist gave me quite a gruelling as to why I had requested the test and at one point stood over me haranguing me with raised voice. I offered to forget the whole thing and just leave but with bad grace she took a blood sample.
I'm not sure what the protocol is for cholesterol tests but just a warning to others that maybe it's best to pay for a private one.
I'm not one of the "worried well" and have only had one appointment with a doctor in the last 3 years. I would add that in all past consultations I have found the practice doctors polite, pleasant and helpful.
4 Years On…..Health-wise, Has Anything Changed?