TheBoyBilly
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- Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
I have decided I really, really must get into some sort of shape. I am extremely overweight and so I went to see my Doctor for a check-up. (This was also partly brought on by my brother's recent diagnosis with type 2 diabetes, so I thought it best for me to be tested too).
The Doc said my heart rate was up from the last reading twelve months ago but not by too much and still okay but in the upper realms. Exercise and diet were the key, obviously. For what it's worth I used to smoke but gave up in 2004. I take a 20mg tablet of Atorvestatin for my cholesterol each day, by the way.
So to today, a week after my blood test. I rang for an appointment but there were none to be had. I explained that I needed to find out if anything was amiss or should be followed up. The woman on the desk got my results and said that both types of cholesterol were fine and in fact everything was normal (she mentioned other stuff but it went over my head to be honest) and with no trace of diabetes found.
So, with everything seeming to be okay and me being fit enough(it would seem) to start of gently exercising, do you think I need to contact the Doctor to go through my results more fully, or do you think that if anything were amiss I'd soon be contacted?
All I'm looking for here is a bit of advice to take this niggling little concern away.
Thanks, Bill
The Doc said my heart rate was up from the last reading twelve months ago but not by too much and still okay but in the upper realms. Exercise and diet were the key, obviously. For what it's worth I used to smoke but gave up in 2004. I take a 20mg tablet of Atorvestatin for my cholesterol each day, by the way.
So to today, a week after my blood test. I rang for an appointment but there were none to be had. I explained that I needed to find out if anything was amiss or should be followed up. The woman on the desk got my results and said that both types of cholesterol were fine and in fact everything was normal (she mentioned other stuff but it went over my head to be honest) and with no trace of diabetes found.
So, with everything seeming to be okay and me being fit enough(it would seem) to start of gently exercising, do you think I need to contact the Doctor to go through my results more fully, or do you think that if anything were amiss I'd soon be contacted?
All I'm looking for here is a bit of advice to take this niggling little concern away.
Thanks, Bill