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<blockquote data-quote="gardengnome42" data-source="post: 1862977" data-attributes="member: 114214"><p>Maybe you are right, I am jumping the gun. Time was I never visited a doctor unless there was something wrong but then I was 'invited' for an NHS Health Check and the rot set in. It made me obsess about things that at one time I would never have bothered with. At the same time it has also made me aware that drs are not always right and it is our lives and up to each of us to look after ourselves and not just to keep popping pills.</p><p>First off they found I had hypertension and about that time I also found out that the surgery gets extra funds for every patient found to have that, or diabetes. About a year later I asked for my medical notes online and found the HbA1c was 41 yet nobody had said that was too high and almost into borderline diabetes. They had made their money out of me with the hypertension so why bother. I felt I was a cash cow and totally trapped in the system. Next they give you a Qrisk assessment and offer a statin - money this time for Big Pharma. Initially statins were for anyone with a risk of 20%> until it was lowered to 10% in one swoop with no sound reason other than over medicalising the healthy.</p><p>But then you start to realise that you can never be healthy again if the NHS has anything to do with it. They have you in their sights for ever constantly bombarding you with texts and emails for tests for this and tests for that, not to mention reviews! If they don't make us all into hypochondriacs then we all become aware of stuff we otherwise would have had a healthy disregard for. </p><p>So rant over and back to the beginning! Maybe I am jumping the gun: I am not yet diabetic and with luck it will never happen, I do need an annual review for asthma and hypertension with the GP or the nurse[every 6 months I send in an 8 day reading chart] and they ask for an electrolytes blood test annually which happens after the review. I have probably asked for an HbA1c at the same time. Maybe this year I won't ask and see if it is offered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gardengnome42, post: 1862977, member: 114214"] Maybe you are right, I am jumping the gun. Time was I never visited a doctor unless there was something wrong but then I was 'invited' for an NHS Health Check and the rot set in. It made me obsess about things that at one time I would never have bothered with. At the same time it has also made me aware that drs are not always right and it is our lives and up to each of us to look after ourselves and not just to keep popping pills. First off they found I had hypertension and about that time I also found out that the surgery gets extra funds for every patient found to have that, or diabetes. About a year later I asked for my medical notes online and found the HbA1c was 41 yet nobody had said that was too high and almost into borderline diabetes. They had made their money out of me with the hypertension so why bother. I felt I was a cash cow and totally trapped in the system. Next they give you a Qrisk assessment and offer a statin - money this time for Big Pharma. Initially statins were for anyone with a risk of 20%> until it was lowered to 10% in one swoop with no sound reason other than over medicalising the healthy. But then you start to realise that you can never be healthy again if the NHS has anything to do with it. They have you in their sights for ever constantly bombarding you with texts and emails for tests for this and tests for that, not to mention reviews! If they don't make us all into hypochondriacs then we all become aware of stuff we otherwise would have had a healthy disregard for. So rant over and back to the beginning! Maybe I am jumping the gun: I am not yet diabetic and with luck it will never happen, I do need an annual review for asthma and hypertension with the GP or the nurse[every 6 months I send in an 8 day reading chart] and they ask for an electrolytes blood test annually which happens after the review. I have probably asked for an HbA1c at the same time. Maybe this year I won't ask and see if it is offered. [/QUOTE]
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