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<blockquote data-quote="Gardengnome" data-source="post: 1955197" data-attributes="member: 90244"><p>I'm a great fan of Kendrick and what he says re. cholesterol etc but admit I haven't actually heard that one, I'm sure he's right though. It was Kendrick who taught me to question just about everything the nannying NHS dishes out. </p><p>[Cue a big argument with my newly qualified junior dr granddaughter who slammed out of the room when I said recently that statins are offered according to what number on the Qrisk you had and that the risk had been lowered from 20% to 10% overnight with no explanation. "Why would they do that Granny": I didn't get the chance to mention Big Pharma before she'd gone!!</p><p> However I did comply with the hypertension thing though, I think I allowed myself to be scared by threats of Dementia, stroke,heart attack, etc dished out by the HCA when first I had the MOT.</p><p> I waited 3 months before going on meds and seeing another GP who was not so dismissive as the first. In the meantime I got my weight better controlled [BMI was 23], raised my exercise level by buying another dog to walk, cutting out salt etc.There was a lot of white coat syndrome I'm sure, but it was only after the second dr said that she would be jumping up and down and insisting on meds if I was her mother that I thought perhaps I should take notice. I've never been able to come off the things unfortunately but on the other hand I've never increased them either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gardengnome, post: 1955197, member: 90244"] I'm a great fan of Kendrick and what he says re. cholesterol etc but admit I haven't actually heard that one, I'm sure he's right though. It was Kendrick who taught me to question just about everything the nannying NHS dishes out. [Cue a big argument with my newly qualified junior dr granddaughter who slammed out of the room when I said recently that statins are offered according to what number on the Qrisk you had and that the risk had been lowered from 20% to 10% overnight with no explanation. "Why would they do that Granny": I didn't get the chance to mention Big Pharma before she'd gone!! However I did comply with the hypertension thing though, I think I allowed myself to be scared by threats of Dementia, stroke,heart attack, etc dished out by the HCA when first I had the MOT. I waited 3 months before going on meds and seeing another GP who was not so dismissive as the first. In the meantime I got my weight better controlled [BMI was 23], raised my exercise level by buying another dog to walk, cutting out salt etc.There was a lot of white coat syndrome I'm sure, but it was only after the second dr said that she would be jumping up and down and insisting on meds if I was her mother that I thought perhaps I should take notice. I've never been able to come off the things unfortunately but on the other hand I've never increased them either. [/QUOTE]
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