Reply to: Doctor check up

[Lockhouse]

HMRC

No - they only do removals.

[Diver]

Where do you go to get your kidneys counted?

HMRC

[PRC1964]

Where do you go to get your kidneys counted?

http://www.pukkapies.co.uk/about-us.html

HTH

[VectraMan]

Nope - never had one. Apparently it affects 1/1000 or something like that. Now know to watch blood pressure, have flu jabs and stuff like that so was useful to know!

Where do you go to get your kidneys counted?

[Lockhouse]

Jesus, where was the other one? Did you mysteriously lose weight while on holiday in vietnam?

Nope - never had one. Apparently it affects 1/1000 or something like that. Now know to watch blood pressure, have flu jabs and stuff like that so was useful to know!

[Ruprect]

True: I had a proper check up at 45 for the first time. Discovered I had only one kidney.

Jesus, where was the other one? Did you mysteriously lose weight while on holiday in vietnam?

[VectraMan]

It's amusing when you see Doctor programmes (or Dr wannabes) on TV saying how you should do this and that when in reality it's probably like totally not going to happen and everyone knows it is bullcarp. For instance imagine asking for a GP for regular health check or a urine test. A GP would probably think you're some kind of loony, winger or a hypochondriac good for ignoring if you ever darken the surgery again within a decade. Or at least it feels that way in my minuscule experience of them, though presumably a nurse could do those checks. Don't they use various abbreviations for patient types too?

I agree. There was some bigwig on TV recently talking about all the work the NHS does in checkups to ensure people are healthy rather than just treating the symptoms. When? I'm 37, if it wasn't the fact that my ears seem to fill up with wax ever couple of years, I don't think I would have been in a doctors surgery my entire adult life.

Meanwhile I have to get regular dental checkups. I could be about to drop dead from any number of things, but at least my teeth are okay.

(Of course I have to pay for the dentist. Perhaps that's the reason).

[Lockhouse]

I saw a report today that said that there are many guys around 45 years of age that have heart problems but are unaware. This was a quote from a surgeon that had just performed a triple-bypass on a 47 year-old asian guy whose heart was so fatty that the surgeon had difficulty finding his arteries.

It seems to me that 45 is an age to have a good check-up.

True: I had a proper check up at 45 for the first time. Discovered I had only one kidney.

[Cyberman]

I saw a report today that said that there are many guys around 45 years of age that have heart problems but are unaware. This was a quote from a surgeon that had just performed a triple-bypass on a 47 year-old asian guy whose heart was so fatty that the surgeon had difficulty finding his arteries.

It seems to me that 45 is an age to have a good check-up.


The best thing though is to have a healthy, low saturated fat diet with lots of fruit and vegetables and a good exercise regime. Then you should hopefully have few worries anyway !!

[TimberWolf]

I've just moved house and changed doctors and at the "new patient" clinic, all the nurse did was ask a few numpty questions and take my blood pressure.

They didn't even give me a little bottle to fill up for a diabetic check. As I'm over weight and over 40, I'm in a high risk group so would have expected this.

Thus, I doubt I'm in line for a "well man's" clinic any time soon.

tim

It's amusing when you see Doctor programmes (or Dr wannabes) on TV saying how you should do this and that when in reality it's probably like totally not going to happen and everyone knows it is bullcarp. For instance imagine asking for a GP for regular health check or a urine test. A GP would probably think you're some kind of loony, winger or a hypochondriac good for ignoring if you ever darken the surgery again within a decade. Or at least it feels that way in my minuscule experience of them, though presumably a nurse could do those checks. Don't they use various abbreviations for patient types too?

[tim123]

I've just moved house and changed doctors and at the "new patient" clinic, all the nurse did was ask a few numpty questions and take my blood pressure.

They didn't even give me a little bottle to fill up for a diabetic check. As I'm over weight and over 40, I'm in a high risk group so would have expected this.

Thus, I doubt I'm in line for a "well man's" clinic any time soon.

tim

[Diver]

I get checkups regularly.


Every time I cut something off

I'm actually surprisingly healthy according to the doctors. excellent recovery rate, good set of lungs, optimum blood pressure, low cholesterol.

Just that my appendages have taken a hammering over the years.
holes in me, bits burnt and cut off, shrapnel enough to set off metal detectors at airports. Oh! and a brain the size of a pea

[SandyDown]

Top Tip. Take out a large life assurance/critical illness policy BEFORE you go for a full physical.

That way, if they do pickup on something very nasty, you are covered for the future. Then if you get the all clear you can cancel the policies. Once you are diagnosed, you won't get cover in the future.

HTH

[Ruprect]

If you've got no symptoms, or alarming family history, there's probably no point. I don't think there's any evidence that check-ups are beneficial (on average). As has been pointed out, lots of people will have findings which are innocent but which will prompt further investigation. Don't get sucked into the system.

Fair comment. I'm not near 40 yet, so will avoid

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as long as possible!

[Old Greg]

If you've got no symptoms, or alarming family history, there's probably no point. I don't think there's any evidence that check-ups are beneficial (on average). As has been pointed out, lots of people will have findings which are innocent but which will prompt further investigation. Don't get sucked into the system.