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Has anyone had this cardiovascular QRisk thing done?
Apparently something flagged up on my record in the computer system that meant the receptionist absolutely had to book me in for an appointment with the GP. But being a receptionist, she was very cloak and dagger and just said "it's about your blood test results".
The appointment was supposed to be for tomorrow, but I had my annual review with the DSN today and she had a look into it and said my QRisk needing doing. So basically, she banged some numbers into a piece of software (bmi, whether I'm poor as dirt, hba1c, blood pressure, cholesterol levels etc), and it produces a percentage of risk of me getting Cardiovascular disease and presumably carking it of a heart attack in the next 10 years. If that percentage is above 10% then you must take a statin and do not pass go.
Obviously, because I'm fat, diabetic, and have white coat syndrome (my blood pressure is high at the surgery), I'm sure it was expected that my risk factors were so high that I might even by called to glory during the appointment. But no, my numbers come to 10.4% (my cholesterol isn't high), and there was a distinct sense of dismay from my DSN. She still wanted to put me on a statin "just in case", but I told her that wouldn't happen. No way.
Been there, done that, got that T-shirt and the achey legs. Also, I'm mid thirties and trying to conceive, so all in all it's an inappropriate choice.
She still had to swan off to the GP though just to see if she could release me from her lair without a statin prescription.
So I've been let off with a 3 months reprieve, and the encouraging thought that I have to lose more weight, get my Hba1c down, and see if I can get my Blood pressure lower and Cholesterol below 4 to dodge the Statin bullet next time.
These silly NHS tools to generate "likelihood" figures are just... well, too much really!
Apparently something flagged up on my record in the computer system that meant the receptionist absolutely had to book me in for an appointment with the GP. But being a receptionist, she was very cloak and dagger and just said "it's about your blood test results".
The appointment was supposed to be for tomorrow, but I had my annual review with the DSN today and she had a look into it and said my QRisk needing doing. So basically, she banged some numbers into a piece of software (bmi, whether I'm poor as dirt, hba1c, blood pressure, cholesterol levels etc), and it produces a percentage of risk of me getting Cardiovascular disease and presumably carking it of a heart attack in the next 10 years. If that percentage is above 10% then you must take a statin and do not pass go.
Obviously, because I'm fat, diabetic, and have white coat syndrome (my blood pressure is high at the surgery), I'm sure it was expected that my risk factors were so high that I might even by called to glory during the appointment. But no, my numbers come to 10.4% (my cholesterol isn't high), and there was a distinct sense of dismay from my DSN. She still wanted to put me on a statin "just in case", but I told her that wouldn't happen. No way.
Been there, done that, got that T-shirt and the achey legs. Also, I'm mid thirties and trying to conceive, so all in all it's an inappropriate choice.
She still had to swan off to the GP though just to see if she could release me from her lair without a statin prescription.
So I've been let off with a 3 months reprieve, and the encouraging thought that I have to lose more weight, get my Hba1c down, and see if I can get my Blood pressure lower and Cholesterol below 4 to dodge the Statin bullet next time.
These silly NHS tools to generate "likelihood" figures are just... well, too much really!
