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@hankjam Hey bro, good to meet you on the path. Racing train yes (obviously not a UK one) and also missing beats, one in 4 or 5 I reckon, and thirdly the one I've always had, a sort of switchback, climbing slowly and then faster as if going over the top of a hill. The only one that pulls me up short through de-energising is the train.
Thanks for the link
 
@hankjam and @DeejayR thanks for your responses. My husband has had arrythmia following an aortic root replacement 10 years ago when he was 50 - apparently 1 out of 100 patients have an issue with their sinus nerve afterwards and you can guess which one he is! He's got a pace maker - he's wearing them out pretty quickly as he's already on his second one which they put in 3 years ago. He also had an aortic valve replaced at the same time and I can hear when his heart goes too fast, misses a beat or throws in an extra one just for fun!!

TBH he's on at that least 4 different drugs at the moment and at least 2 of them interact with statins so he is 'pushing back' against the doctors that are trying to make him take them. The first GP said 'you an take them if you want' and the second one offered to decrease the dose which makes us think that there is possibly no real urgency to take them. In addition I suffered severe side effects and a rise in my hba1c from 48 to 56 when I was taking them and both his parents and brother had/has T2 diabetes so he doesn't want to take the risk.
 
Daphne917 said:
or throws in an extra one just for fun!!
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I'm jealous
All luck to you and your husband in standing against the current, and I hope the GPs' attitudes you mention are omens of a good outcome.
 
DeejayR said:
I'm jealous
All luck to you and your husband in standing against the current, and I hope the GPs' attitudes you mention are omens of a good outcome.
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We can but try!!
 
@DeejayR and talking of Bro's, how is your brother keeping. I seem to remember he was on the same road but not, maybe, going the same way.
 
hankjam said:
@DeejayR and talking of Bro's, how is your brother keeping.
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Thanks for asking. I had lunch with him today and watched him enjoying lasagne and crusty bread, and biscuits with the coffee. He has high blood pressure, slightly elevated cholesterol (he has the overall figure only) and he doesn't know what his blood sugar levels are. He is taking metformin for his T2 and blood pressure pills, and started a course of statins but felt ill, so stopped taking them. Like me he is not overweight and normally feels well. Next month he and his wife are continuing their walk in weekly stages from Land's End to John O'Groats.
I had fresh tuna salad
 
Sorry to go on but yesterday I was with my grandchildren, and my T2 daughter-in-law is making heavy weather of her not-very-LCHF diet. She strives to eat the right things but finds treats too tempting, especially when my son sits beside her watching tv and scoffing chocs. I took her some home-made chocolate brownies. She doesn't cook but he does, so he could make her some.
My daughter-in-law was diagnosed T2 after gestational diabetes. She is a 10k runner and keen cyclist, and in good shape with no diabetic symptoms aside from an HbA1C of 49.
 
Well, I took all of you in with me to see my GP today and we did pretty well. She was delighted to hear about the possibilities of control through LCHF and even suggested I should give the practice a tutorial. She admitted the NHS (NICE) advice is out of date. The arguments against statins I have gleaned from the forum got her attention too. I got a whole12 minutes and she was already running late.
Many thanks again for your support and advice.
 
That's good to read that she was receptive to a different take on pill pushing and admitting weakness in the NHS advice is pretty impressive. Time does fly in a surgery and I often go in with a mental list of things to discuss and come out feeling like I should have written it down.
So is that you for 6 or 12 months?
My practice only goes for blood tests in your birth month.....
 

Well done DeejayR. I'm glad you took us with you and it seems you were well armed with the facts.
It will be my turn soon and I intend to do the same.

Thank you x
 
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