The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

Walked the mile up the hill to the Doctors Surgery for a health check up I was invited to attend. Chucking it down with rain and blowing a Hoolie. I was the only person in the Surgery apart from the Staff and within a few minutes was called in to an examination room by a really charming Nurse. She weighed me took a blood sample for the Cholesterol test and checked my heart rate, then asked the usual lifestyle questions while putting all the answers in to the computer. When everything was entered and the computer calculated the result she said " Now, I'm confused "
She said that from all the answers that I'd given, my cholesterol levels, blood pressure and weight, she expected me to have a risk factor of less than 10% ( That's when I asked risk factor of what? and was told that the check up was for the risk of contracting coronary heart disease within the next 10 years ) The computer came up with a score of 27% so she will refer me to the Doctor.
She said I'd probably be offered Statins and I told her I'd been following all the Pro / Con articles for more than a decade and would almost certainly use diet instead of medication to remediate any concerns.

Similar figure to me.

Dieting made no difference but Statins made an immediate impact and in 3 months my risk level is back to normal for my age.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Similar figure to me.

Dieting made no difference but Statins made an immediate impact and in 3 months my risk level is back to normal for my age.

That's what the nurse couldn't quite understand, all my responses with regard to diet, excercise, alcohol consumption, smoking history, familial history were excellent, as were my weight, blood pressure and resting heart rate. My cholesteral level was 3. She said that she was expecting to see a score below 10 and was a bit flummoxed as to why it came out at 27 and triggered a referal to my GP.

 

[classic33]

Bit windy here this morning...

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Next time, the moon!

 

[Exlaser2]

Night night everyone.

 

[numbnuts]

Morning

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

Someone viewing Chez Drago at 1030 so I'll have to make myself scarce for an hour.

 

[Dave7]

Morning all.
It was 'orrible at 0600, very dark and bordering cold.
My SiL visited yesterday and I enjoyed a few hours of his company. Chill day today.....I normally go to the pub with my neighbour at 12.30, just a couple of hours but its a nice break.

 

[Paulus]

Morning all.
The torrential rain has stopped now, it rained for 10 hours, but the sun is now rising. But, the rain will be back this afternoon.
I'll have to get some washing on early.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

good morning from a misty Coventry.

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooeee. The temp has dropped by half this morning to 8 deg. Abd of course its still raining.

Stay safe peeps.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Looks like we're in for some fair weather today.
MrsD's decided that she wants another motorbike, so we're going to start searching later on.
Might nip out on the steam train later.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. We had rain earlier but it went off in time for a little walk/jog. Off for a nice bath now then it'll be time for my porridge.

The river has dropped a bit now. Still windy out though.

 

[Dirk]

Autumn starts today.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Autumn starts today.

I think you're a couple of days early...

 

[Paulus]

I think you're a couple of days early...

I didn't think it started until the equinox on the 23rd.