“Diabetes UK recommends that people with diabetes without known cardiovascular disease should discuss their individual risk with their healthcare team," said Libby Dowling, Care Advisor for Diabetes UK.
So this is a change in guidelines, I have been on Aspirin since 2006 and I must admit, I bleed like a stuck pig when ever I cut myself (rarely) or do a prick test (frequently). I thought that was good, when I was first diagnosed I used to have the devils own game squeezing the thick gooey blood out of my finger - completely the opposite now.
From a purely non scientific, not knowing what I am talking about, I prefer blood that flows easily !!
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Thursday
Sunday
I know I haven't blogged for a while, but I have been preoccupied with job hunting, and also building a leanto on the back of the garage, (about which more later).
It seems that GP care varies greatly according to a report in the gradian. 1 in 4 diabetics aren't given the meds that they need? Well I bet that more than 1 in 4 diabetics don't understand their condition, don't bother researching it, and don't bother following medical advice. No, I don't have any actual stats to back that up, my stement is prely anecdotal. When I tell people that I am diabetic, they nearly always know someone else that is diabetic and that has 'problems'. A bit of digging by me and most times you can see that their diabetic friend isn't eating in a diabetic friendly way. It is so easy, just eat a normal '5 a day' healthy diet cutting out most fats and salt. There is no special diabetic diet, my diet is the same one YOU should be eating to be healthy and prolong your life. I have the VERY occasional MacD etc, but I am lucky, I am a NID (non insulin dependant), and so regulating my blood glucose is a bit easier for me, but by far and away most diabetics are NIDs, so it is easier for them too. Someone close was diagnised recently as 'possibly diabetic' and sent for tests. Their reaction? Binging on cream cakes just in case diabetes was later confirmed. O. M. G !! They won't help themselves, so why should Doctors help 'normal sane' people that won't help them selves?
Because they should, that's why, because we trust them to, and because we expect them to. They dispense drugs, sorry medicines, that we can't buy over the counter, and generally should check that there are no compatibility issues. But every packet of drugs that you get on prescription comes with an information sheet that almost no one seems to read. It tells you about the drug, what side effects it has been known to show in some patients and what to avoid. If you read it, you can you know, it is allowed, and then go on the internet (which is in most homes in the UK and is free at every library so EVERYONE has access to it), and search (google) about your condition and your drugs, you can be informed and can know more, and if you have side effects or questions, you can go back to your GP. But people don't.
Just googling diabetes will tell you that, especially if you are diabetic, that aspirin and statins are almost quintessentialy essential for a diabetics and probably most other people too. You had to have been staying with the Clangers on the Moon not to know, it's been in the news for weeks. Okay so you have to get statins from your GP, (try asking, if for some odd reason they haven't been prescribed to you as a diabetic), but aspirin? You can get it so cheaply at supermarkets these days. People who will spend pounds on vitamin tablets they don't need won't spend pence on aspirin that they do! It's crazy.
And how do I know it's all human nature and how even though I do the right thing about diabetes, that is not the only issue? Because I am human. Whilst working on building the lean to in the rain (yes, exactly!) I slipped fell off the scaffold, not far, only about 6 foot, and landed on my back and left arm. Nothing seems to be broken, but I stunned myself and couldn't breathe or move for a short while (that was scary, I thought I had broken my back for a while).
What normal sane man works on a scaffold in the rain?
Me, that's who, but at least my diabetes is under control, and it's probably my own stupidity that'll kill me, not diabetes, and certainly not my GP not giving me the right tablets, because he s doing his job and he is giving me all the right tablets. Good Man!
It seems that GP care varies greatly according to a report in the gradian. 1 in 4 diabetics aren't given the meds that they need? Well I bet that more than 1 in 4 diabetics don't understand their condition, don't bother researching it, and don't bother following medical advice. No, I don't have any actual stats to back that up, my stement is prely anecdotal. When I tell people that I am diabetic, they nearly always know someone else that is diabetic and that has 'problems'. A bit of digging by me and most times you can see that their diabetic friend isn't eating in a diabetic friendly way. It is so easy, just eat a normal '5 a day' healthy diet cutting out most fats and salt. There is no special diabetic diet, my diet is the same one YOU should be eating to be healthy and prolong your life. I have the VERY occasional MacD etc, but I am lucky, I am a NID (non insulin dependant), and so regulating my blood glucose is a bit easier for me, but by far and away most diabetics are NIDs, so it is easier for them too. Someone close was diagnised recently as 'possibly diabetic' and sent for tests. Their reaction? Binging on cream cakes just in case diabetes was later confirmed. O. M. G !! They won't help themselves, so why should Doctors help 'normal sane' people that won't help them selves?
Because they should, that's why, because we trust them to, and because we expect them to. They dispense drugs, sorry medicines, that we can't buy over the counter, and generally should check that there are no compatibility issues. But every packet of drugs that you get on prescription comes with an information sheet that almost no one seems to read. It tells you about the drug, what side effects it has been known to show in some patients and what to avoid. If you read it, you can you know, it is allowed, and then go on the internet (which is in most homes in the UK and is free at every library so EVERYONE has access to it), and search (google) about your condition and your drugs, you can be informed and can know more, and if you have side effects or questions, you can go back to your GP. But people don't.
Just googling diabetes will tell you that, especially if you are diabetic, that aspirin and statins are almost quintessentialy essential for a diabetics and probably most other people too. You had to have been staying with the Clangers on the Moon not to know, it's been in the news for weeks. Okay so you have to get statins from your GP, (try asking, if for some odd reason they haven't been prescribed to you as a diabetic), but aspirin? You can get it so cheaply at supermarkets these days. People who will spend pounds on vitamin tablets they don't need won't spend pence on aspirin that they do! It's crazy.
And how do I know it's all human nature and how even though I do the right thing about diabetes, that is not the only issue? Because I am human. Whilst working on building the lean to in the rain (yes, exactly!) I slipped fell off the scaffold, not far, only about 6 foot, and landed on my back and left arm. Nothing seems to be broken, but I stunned myself and couldn't breathe or move for a short while (that was scary, I thought I had broken my back for a while).
What normal sane man works on a scaffold in the rain?
Me, that's who, but at least my diabetes is under control, and it's probably my own stupidity that'll kill me, not diabetes, and certainly not my GP not giving me the right tablets, because he s doing his job and he is giving me all the right tablets. Good Man!
Thursday
Couple of different subject matters for todays post. Wry Interest and Health. First the wry interest:
Well, I thought that nothing much would take me by surprise, in a pleasant way. This standard from the British Standards Institute BS 6008 proved me wrong. ISO 3103 would appear to be the same standard but regulated by the International Organization for Standardization. I suppose if I stop and think about it logically it shouldn't really suprise me, but I always supposed that 'Standards' would be more for things like bricks, or glass or other tangible objects and measures. I suspect that this is my failing and not that of the standards organisations. In reality anything that could be made in a repetitive process should have a standard methodology, it just never occurred to me that a cup of tea was any such thing.
ISO 6668 then gives us a standard for preparing coffee, and I should imagine that any number of odd things that we do day in and day out can also fall under the auspices of the standards bodies.
Okay, off to check ISO6668, I'm a tad thirsty.
Now the Health:
Just come back from the GP. Good news and bad. The blood sugars have stabilised at between 7 and 8 prior to eating and he is happy about that (as I am !), BP still a little high at an average of 150/90, and I am suffering weight gain (1 stone added in 4 weeks)as a side effect of the Avandamet. A bit of fine tuning and so an Update on my daily meds.
Avandamet (4mg rosiglatazone, 1000mg metformin) twice daily
xenical (120mg orlistat) thrice daily (New for me!)
aspirin 75mg mornings
perindopril 4mg mornings
amlopidine 5mg mornings
doxazosin 4mg night
simvastatin 20mg night
oxycodone 5mg twice daily (pain killers at last!!!!!! :-) )
Net result of all the meds is a general feeling of queasyness, an 'upset tummy' most of the time, some cracking headaches and let's just describe me as 'loose'. But the upside is that the Blood Sugars are under control and the BP is down from where it was, ( i was getting 200+ over 100+), that has to be good for my long term health. It'll be interesting to see how things go with the fine tuning that the new meds will bring. My GP also managed to get my opthalmic appointment bought forward at the local hospital, and now I have an appoinment tomorrow. Now that is what I call service.
Well, I thought that nothing much would take me by surprise, in a pleasant way. This standard from the British Standards Institute BS 6008 proved me wrong. ISO 3103 would appear to be the same standard but regulated by the International Organization for Standardization. I suppose if I stop and think about it logically it shouldn't really suprise me, but I always supposed that 'Standards' would be more for things like bricks, or glass or other tangible objects and measures. I suspect that this is my failing and not that of the standards organisations. In reality anything that could be made in a repetitive process should have a standard methodology, it just never occurred to me that a cup of tea was any such thing.
ISO 6668 then gives us a standard for preparing coffee, and I should imagine that any number of odd things that we do day in and day out can also fall under the auspices of the standards bodies.
Okay, off to check ISO6668, I'm a tad thirsty.
Now the Health:
Just come back from the GP. Good news and bad. The blood sugars have stabilised at between 7 and 8 prior to eating and he is happy about that (as I am !), BP still a little high at an average of 150/90, and I am suffering weight gain (1 stone added in 4 weeks)as a side effect of the Avandamet. A bit of fine tuning and so an Update on my daily meds.
Net result of all the meds is a general feeling of queasyness, an 'upset tummy' most of the time, some cracking headaches and let's just describe me as 'loose'. But the upside is that the Blood Sugars are under control and the BP is down from where it was, ( i was getting 200+ over 100+), that has to be good for my long term health. It'll be interesting to see how things go with the fine tuning that the new meds will bring. My GP also managed to get my opthalmic appointment bought forward at the local hospital, and now I have an appoinment tomorrow. Now that is what I call service.
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