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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Myself, Judith, Melody and Keiran are all living in one household at the moment our closest friend and her son are about 17 miles from us on the other side of Nottingham my son is in Oxford so apart from my son we see everyone on a regular basis since bubbles came into force.

So we don't really have that sense of isolation as we live so closely together it is more than likely if one of us gets it we all will but so far none of us has apart from Keiran who thinks he had it while at university so did not come home till he was fully recovered plus a few weeks Melody as she had to have a procedure or two carried out at the hospital was tested before she was able to go into the hospital and the test was negative.

So we have been lucky so far despite our next door neighbors who have not kept to any of the guidelines with family and friends coming and going all the time we have kept our distance as best we could what concerns me is the lady of the house works in the local Co-op.
 
There does seem to be move to nurse practitioner led surgeries now where you may have a GP present for a couple of hours on odd days I personally am uneasy with it.
 
jjraak said:
No profit for peoples ' mates,' in just cooking real food, ...anyone can buy from a market/supermarket.

it's like those jane plans, etc.

a little bit of profit, from every sale goes a LONG way to make millions,
otherwise they wouldn't BE in business, would they..?

the answer to the T2D tsunami,..

( and even more so post covid, given long hail Covid cases are in the thousands,
and god knows what impact THAT will have over the years to come )

...isn't some ponzi scheme for our benevolent leaders
preferred companies, sponsors and friends

But an honest appraisal of what many on here, and worldwide have achieved with a simple adjustment to their diet.

Cost effective, simple & in balance with the clients needs.
seems a recipe for harmony and good business in the real world


WE are intolerant of carbs in the same way, the govt
are intolerant of sensible, balanced decision making,

Decisions that are GOOD to the health of the Nation,
SHOULD be a Govts PRIORITY, right
or is that being to naive ?

SO Why must EVERY decision THIS Govt make, seem to start with...
"How many millions will THIS make US "
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Hi jj,
Rasputin has given the World Kings party a new suit of clothes. Eventually all the ones who were promised the levelling will realize the elite are in it for themselves and the new clothes dont exist, and the World king is in the altogether!
D. :)
 
HarryBeau said:
My INR has been problematical doses ranged from 17mgs now down to 12mgs so like you I must be a super rat too!...its difficult to control the levels I find it far more difficult to control the INR than my T2...I have thought about using one of the others but concerns about the side effects & more importantly the antidotes for bleeding...feeling a little human today off to the anti-coagulant clinic this morning hoping for a good number but suspect after Mondays events that will be unlikely...but fingers crossed.
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Ask the doctor to try you on one of the novels, you are an ideal candidate and you do not need testing.

I am on the lower dose dabigatran twice per day 110mg.
D.
 
@gennepher read your post re: the pessary sounds horrific and to even think or suggest you should drive yourself to an A + E...if there wasn't a doctor prepared or able to come to the surgery why on earth wouldn't they call an ambulance...thank goodness you're home & able to tell the tale.
 
HarryBeau said:
@gennepher read your post re: the pessary sounds horrific and to even think or suggest you should drive yourself to an A + E...if there wasn't a doctor prepared or able to come to the surgery why on earth wouldn't they call an ambulance...thank goodness you're home & able to tell the tale.
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Thanks @HarryBeau
It was incredulous.

Hope you are feeling better x
 
HarryBeau said:
I've thought about that but there is still a bleeding risk & the lack of an antidote concerns me.
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Hi Harry,
There are antidotes now.
But you would need to be in a hospital.

That's why I drive carefully, try not fall over or bang my head or use a chain saw. :)

The antidote to warfarin is massive doses of vitamin k, it doesn't work immediately.

The diet on warfarin is more difficult, by taking a vitamin k antagonist like warfarin it causes (like statins, another vitamin k antagonist) arterial calcification.
I have permanent Afib but it is slow Afib and I have a pacemaker.

On balance 110mg x2 per day is worth the risk of not having a stroke.
150 x2 per day is not worth the risk of having a brain bleed, but you have to discuss these issues with your GP.

I am 81 Harry, I had advanced pc at sixtyfour and I treat everyday as a gift from God.

Atb
Derek
 
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Doctors are retiring Gennepher.

The Conservatives have capped the number of doctors going to medical school.
The cap was lifted just recently due to the University fiasco.

It takes 10 years to train a GP from going to medical school. Daughter worked over 100 hours a week doing house jobs but it is somewhat better for trainees now.

She does not want to retire, she is totally dedicated to training other doctors and her job.

When she went to Uni, there were relatively few on her course from a State comprehensive.
I remember her telling me when they went to see the people in the back to back houses in Leeds, the private school types wanted to know why people lived like this?
They had never seen poverty.

I reckon your problem is they have allowed some GPs to turn their job into a busines and combine practices.
D.



gennepher said:
I am completely gobsmacked.

After research, I find my GP practice runs through eConsult. Any info I give here is specific to my GP practice.

There are no doctors in my GP practice. It is nurse led. That is the nurse who who made an appallingly mess of my pessary change yesterday. And another nurse who I haven't yet seen.

So, there are various boxes and many many many lists to go into. It is a badly worked out site, you cannot go back one page, you have to find your starting place all over again. I have wasted a lot of time on this site this morning, and I imagine most people will give up.

Just one example on the site, because of the disastrous pessary change yesterday which caused excessive bleeding (it is stopping but I am in pain with it, I am staying in bed for safety's sake until tomorrow at least), I looked up the section for 'blood urine for women'.

This gives me 2 boxes
1. I want to help myself (which shows online videos for you to watch, and info, and how to sort something yourself)
2. I want treatment and advice from my GP (but that is a fallacy because there are no GP's at this (my) surgery, this is just a personalisation set of words to assure you your GP is there, but he/she is not). If you tick this box, then it refers you to an alternative location than your GP surgery, and this can be anywhere, where supposedly you can get treatment. (You need to be, or have, a driver and have your own vehicle to be able to do this, because you will asked to go nearly 13 miles to the hospital which has horrendous parking, and I would need to lift my mobility scooter out of my car, which I am currently in no condition to be able to do so, as I cannot walk that far into the hospital. I pulled out of this site at this point. I was just seeing what would happen for my current bleeding problem that the practice nurse caused by her inadequate pessary change and she was okay for me to go home with and medicate myself. She was not allowed to prescribe me anything yesterday (there is no doctor on site in my GP surgery to sign prescriptions), but she told me to buy some paracetamol for the pain.

Also, according to this site, Health Reviews are now done online at my surgery now, by ticking a series of boxes, not by attending my GP practice.

And more stuff, like if you need a blood pressure reading it is not done at my GP practice any more, and you need go yourself round your pharmacies, to find a pharmacy that can give you one.

The whole thing is a badly managed complicated site, not intuitive friendly. And certainly not for old people who don't have the internet.

I have lost the will to live.


I also tried looking online at the local community hospital, about 10 miles away, which I have used in the past. It is a minor injury hospital. I have gone through its site, and it is more restrictive on who it sees than it used to be. And it is nurse led. There are no doctors in attendance any more when the hospital is open. It doesn't help with my current problem of bleeding due to pessary change.

Where are all the doctors?
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lindisfel said:
Doctors are retiring Gennepher.

The Conservatives have capped the number of doctors going to medical school.
The cap was lifted just recently due to the University fiasco.

It takes 10 years to train a GP from going to medical school. Daughter worked over 100 hours a week doing house jobs but it is somewhat better for trainees now.

She does not want to retire, she is totally dedicated to training other doctors and her job.

When she went to Uni, there were relatively few on her course from a State comprehensive.
I remember her telling me when they went to see the people in the back to back houses in Leeds, the private school types wanted to know why people lived like this?
They had never seen poverty.

I reckon your problem is they have allowed some GPs to turn their job into a busines and combine practices.
D.
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It doesn’t make sense to me as a patient @lindisfel

People have no idea how others live.
 
good afternoon all :)

4.2 this morning

shopping day today plus the added excitement of green bin day ;)

suprisingly quiet this morning perhaps because the schools are back in now. Possibly some of those who were previously shopping at 8am when we get there (that's when they open ;)), are getting the kids out to school at that time now.

Dropped off mum's shopping and she tells us that our cousin and his wife are coming to visit next Wednesday for a few days, all being well. They are keeping fairly isolated at home, both of them have underlying health issues too (He is over 80 now and diabetic and she is not far behind in age).
They didn't manage up for a visit last year so I think that's why they really want to come visit mum just now. We'll get as much ready as we can ;)

@gennepher - miserable situation for you, hope it improves soon.
I think we still have doctors here, if you can get past the receptionist that is :sorry: but at the moment there is no practice nurse so no annual toe tickling etc .

@Muddy Cyclist - that's a grand oak tree and lovely vibrant sunset :joyful:
I agree with you on the current dilemma, we're pleased that mum will get to see our cousins but can't help finding the additional chain of potential contact stressful :sorry:

@dunelm - this new range of trees are very interesting with their different leaf styles and I like the minmal hints of the mountains in the background :)

@Alien Aspie - glad that your test came back more quickly than expected and is negative :joyful:
I like your leaves and waterdrops very much, it's worked well and made a very pleasing image :)

art bit -
finally thought 'what the h*ll' with the swithering about brushes and bought some plus a couple of reasonable sketchbooks. So I will have no excuse not to try my hand at plein air once everything arrives ;)

today a quick sketchy landscape from a photo

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geefull said:
art bit -
finally thought 'what the h*ll' with the swithering about brushes and bought some plus a couple of reasonable sketchbooks. So I will have no excuse not to try my hand at plein air once everything arrives ;)

today a quick sketchy landscape from a photo

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Thank you @geefull

Your hills are so beautiful. The whole painting is. A calming painting.
 
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