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<blockquote data-quote="DeejayR" data-source="post: 1611621" data-attributes="member: 126679"><p>Confusing it sure can be, especially with other health issues to complicate things. It doesn't help that the NHS can only cope with one issue at a time, funnelling you down an ever-narrowing tunnel of specialism to resolve it. By good fortune, however, my annual HbA1C blood test for diabetes over three years has also revealed the earliest possible stage of a form of blood cancer, for which I'm monitored every three months, thus providing me with four extra HbA1c's a year! And ironically according to the NHS heart risk (CVD) chart, I'm due to peg out in a year or two anyway from a condition (atrial fibrillation) for which I'm not even being monitored.</p><p>So all I do is take a small dose of aspirin every day and ask myself how I feel and what I'd like to do and eat. Especially eat <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p>I'm very lucky to be able to do this and I feel very well. I also remember that at 76 I'm entitled to feel a few aches and pains and sometimes a bit weary after gardening or shopping. </p><p>I've just plugged in a Freestyle Libre sensor showing my blood sugar level trundling along without any apparent connection to what I do or eat, but always within target and sometimes below.. It's a great consolation.</p><p>[USER=377794]@coleyd[/USER] -- just do your best with what you've learned about yourself and try not to worry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeejayR, post: 1611621, member: 126679"] Confusing it sure can be, especially with other health issues to complicate things. It doesn't help that the NHS can only cope with one issue at a time, funnelling you down an ever-narrowing tunnel of specialism to resolve it. By good fortune, however, my annual HbA1C blood test for diabetes over three years has also revealed the earliest possible stage of a form of blood cancer, for which I'm monitored every three months, thus providing me with four extra HbA1c's a year! And ironically according to the NHS heart risk (CVD) chart, I'm due to peg out in a year or two anyway from a condition (atrial fibrillation) for which I'm not even being monitored. So all I do is take a small dose of aspirin every day and ask myself how I feel and what I'd like to do and eat. Especially eat :). I'm very lucky to be able to do this and I feel very well. I also remember that at 76 I'm entitled to feel a few aches and pains and sometimes a bit weary after gardening or shopping. I've just plugged in a Freestyle Libre sensor showing my blood sugar level trundling along without any apparent connection to what I do or eat, but always within target and sometimes below.. It's a great consolation. [USER=377794]@coleyd[/USER] -- just do your best with what you've learned about yourself and try not to worry. [/QUOTE]
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