Health Checks ?

iris

Besides having your usual 'flu jab every year, don't forget your pneumonia and shingles jabs;)

seven-day-weekend

iris wrote: »

Besides having your usual 'flu jab every year, don't forget your pneumonia and shingles jabs;)

Yes, I forgot the flu jabs. Never heard of the others. Thanks!

iris

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Yes, I forgot the flu jabs. Never heard of the others. Thanks!

Our surgery does the pneumonia jab at the same time as having your 'flu jab, as long as you book it.

The shingles injection was new (well to our surgery it was) last year.

seven-day-weekend

If you are under 65, you may have to pay for your flu jab. Our surgery charges £10. Still well worth it though!

Fire_Fox

Get the free stuff done by the NHS, good gyms or pharmacies will do extras like fitness tests, blood cholesterol, fasting glucose and bodyfat with a medical quality gadget. Forget taking your own blood pressure unless you have properly been trained to use it.

Also write down ALL your symptoms, I see clients constantly with minor symptoms they don't recognise as symptoms from lack of energy/ tiredness to minor skin/ nail/ hair problems or joint niggles or muscle cramps or annual infections even if just the common cold. You can't just divide people into diagnosable medical condition or totally healthy, there is a whole grey are in between that most of us fall into.

TBH you are better off focussing on your lifestyle modification not testing, do you both consistently meet or exceed ALL our government's recommendations for healthy eating and lifestyle? Are you a healthy weight, do you walk 10,000 steps every single day plus twenty minutes of more intense activity three times a week, do you drink or smoke? Do you know what ALL the healthy eating guidelines are? Most people don't realise they are minimums/ maximums not absolutes, and I almost never see a client who meets them all.

A huge percentage of health problems that people think of as age-related or unavoidable are actually down to poor lifestyle choices. Few people realise the huge contribution of nutrition to cancer, nor the fact that peaks and troughs in blood glucose damages the blood vessels so cholesterol can form plaques - yep sugar/ carbs are a major contributory factor in cardiovascular disease.

Ken68

Boots do a health check of sorts, though maybe only for older people. Anyway they sent a letter to my GP and that has upset the nurse who monitors OAP health. She was not amused.