Doctors and nurses
Aug. 3rd, 2011 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyUnlike various friends who are blogging about weight-loss stuff, my local GP surgery appears to be completely useless.
I made an appointment last week, asking for "a general health-check up, as I've been working on diet and exercise changes - I want to know body-fat, cholesterol, etc". So they made me an appointment with a nurse, and I turned up today and had my height, weight, and blood pressure taken. No commentary was offered even when I asked (he seemed to think the blood pressure was odd (105/71 I think), asked me when I'd last eaten, but didn't seem interested in discussing it with me). No other measurements were taken, and I was told that was it. So, waste of an hour really.
Possibly useful information to come out of this farce; I had a similar check-up when I signed up at that GP surgery in 2008. Back then I weighed 69kg - so I had put on 8kg (over a stone) in the last 3 years, 6kg of which I have lost again in the last 3 months.
Possibly odd information to come out of this farce; in 2008 I was 178.5cm tall. Today I was apparently 173.5cm tall. I've lost 5cm in 3 years?? I just measured myself at home, which is admittedly usually more prone to inaccuracies, but I got 176cm on both tries, so I'm going to get someone else to help me triple-check that. All a bit confusing. I did carry some weights home from the shops this morning, I'm wondering if that might have compressed me a bit? o.0
I made an appointment last week, asking for "a general health-check up, as I've been working on diet and exercise changes - I want to know body-fat, cholesterol, etc". So they made me an appointment with a nurse, and I turned up today and had my height, weight, and blood pressure taken. No commentary was offered even when I asked (he seemed to think the blood pressure was odd (105/71 I think), asked me when I'd last eaten, but didn't seem interested in discussing it with me). No other measurements were taken, and I was told that was it. So, waste of an hour really.
Possibly useful information to come out of this farce; I had a similar check-up when I signed up at that GP surgery in 2008. Back then I weighed 69kg - so I had put on 8kg (over a stone) in the last 3 years, 6kg of which I have lost again in the last 3 months.
Possibly odd information to come out of this farce; in 2008 I was 178.5cm tall. Today I was apparently 173.5cm tall. I've lost 5cm in 3 years?? I just measured myself at home, which is admittedly usually more prone to inaccuracies, but I got 176cm on both tries, so I'm going to get someone else to help me triple-check that. All a bit confusing. I did carry some weights home from the shops this morning, I'm wondering if that might have compressed me a bit? o.0
