@very-rusty saidA lot of people are.
Even here waits are getting longer, but I haven't heard of anyone having to wait 12 months. Hell you could be dead before they find the problem.
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09 Nov 22
@very-rusty saidI take the point, and I'm not saying that I'm in favour of low taxation or the underfunding of the health service.
Here is the point Phil. If you need a MRI or Cat Scan which can be very expensive to the average Joe, one would have to take it out of pocket. The money may not be there, so by paying it in one's taxes, it makes it easier for the patient.
They are talking about pay clinics here now. I don't think majority will do it, a small minority with a big wallet would have no pr ...[text shortened]... blem and be more convenient for them. I don't think it will go anywhere, but one never knows.
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@trev33 saidPlus you would have to adjust to Canadian humor (assuming it actually exists) vs Irish humor. 😉
Private scan in Dublin is about €300, I believe relocating to Canada would cost a little more, not to mention the strain on the knee during the move.
Sorry to hear about your knee(s). Some years ago after bicycling too much my knees got worryingly loose and wobbly, so I wore knee braces for a while.
10 Nov 22
@badradger saidYour injuries are from wear and tear I’m thinking? Ever tried reducing the amount of processed foods in your diet? Its blamed for inflammation. I’ve really cleaned up my diet in the past year. I still lapse with the occasional cake once a week but keeping a food diary helps me keep it under control. My dietary intake is now so virtually ‘clean’ that I can now relate any occasional acute pain (I’ve got early arthritis in a finger) to some kind of rubbish I ate the day before.
Voltorol....tablets have little effect but voltorol hides the pain for a few hrs ...20 years experiance
10 Nov 22
@woodgirl saidInteresting.
Your injuries are from wear and tear I’m thinking? Ever tried reducing the amount of processed foods in your diet? Its blamed for inflammation. I’ve really cleaned up my diet in the past year. I still lapse with the occasional cake once a week but keeping a food diary helps me keep it under control. My dietary intake is now so virtually ‘clean’ that I can now relate any occa ...[text shortened]... onal acute pain (I’ve got early arthritis in a finger) to some kind of rubbish I ate the day before.
I’ve been coastal walking the last couple of days and my foot injury (if that’s what it is) from last year has flared up again. I think it’s heel tendon inflammation, but I only get it in my left foot. Maybe it’s diet related.
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@divegeester saidSomeone one who strictly follows a gout diet is likely to enjoy gout eventually, n'est-ce pas?
Interesting.
I’ve been coastal walking the last couple of days and my foot injury (if that’s what it is) from last year has flared up again. I think it’s heel tendon inflammation, but I only get it in my left foot. Maybe it’s diet related.
10 Nov 22
@divegeester saidThere’s so much interesting stuff around on inflammatory foods. I’ve had to adapt my diet as I’m a high risk for heart attack and stroke having Familial Hypercholesterolemia and I refuse to take Statin medication to lower my cholesterol. Inflammatory foods are risky for me as that’s what can cause cholesterol plaques to break away from the linings of veins and arteries.
Interesting.
I’ve been coastal walking the last couple of days and my foot injury (if that’s what it is) from last year has flared up again. I think it’s heel tendon inflammation, but I only get it in my left foot. Maybe it’s diet related.
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@woodgirl saidI was put on a statin in 2007 or so, and it immediately felt poisonous to me, without any internet preconceptions. I tapered right off that as quickly as I could.
There’s so much interesting stuff around on inflammatory foods. I’ve had to adapt my diet as I’m a high risk for heart attack and stroke having Familial Hypercholesterolemia and I refuse to take Statin medication to lower my cholesterol. Inflammatory foods are risky for me as that’s what can cause cholesterol plaques to break away from the linings of veins and arteries.
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@gambrel saidSir, may I ask if you can still even ride a bicycle these days? 😉
Knee injury by frantic backpedaling
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@woodgirl said“Familial Hypercholesterolemia”
There’s so much interesting stuff around on inflammatory foods. I’ve had to adapt my diet as I’m a high risk for heart attack and stroke having Familial Hypercholesterolemia and I refuse to take Statin medication to lower my cholesterol. Inflammatory foods are risky for me as that’s what can cause cholesterol plaques to break away from the linings of veins and arteries.
Me also. But I do take the statin.
Blue pills vs red pills!
10 Nov 22
@divegeester saidI read an article recently that said statins had some benefit if you had had a heart attack. Otherwise they were useless.
“Familial Hypercholesterolemia”
Me also. But I do take the statin.
Blue pills vs red pills!
10 Nov 22
@woodgirl saidThat's very interesting. Can you give me examples of inflammatory foods?
There’s so much interesting stuff around on inflammatory foods. I’ve had to adapt my diet as I’m a high risk for heart attack and stroke having Familial Hypercholesterolemia and I refuse to take Statin medication to lower my cholesterol. Inflammatory foods are risky for me as that’s what can cause cholesterol plaques to break away from the linings of veins and arteries.
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@torunn saidProcessed meat products, artificial trans fats, refined carbohydrate foods, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and excessive alcohol.
That's very interesting. Can you give me examples of inflammatory foods?
If you’re cooking from scratch and buying organic products when you can you can’t go far wrong; just like our grandmothers did.
What’s interesting is the popularity of protein powders and prepared vegan snacks which are also best avoided too as both highly processed. The only time I ever had an abnormal rise in liver enzyme readings was after I’d used a vegan protein powder and when I started taking Statins. All fine now, one year later.
10 Nov 22
@indonesia-phil saidThere is so much belief in the NHS that I wonder whether people notice how far this underfunding has gone. Sure, the MRI scan would be free, but you ain't getting one. It's not so much the length of the wait as getting triaged out at the point of referral to avoid adding to the waiting list.
Indeed they don't, and there has been a move over recent decades towards private and corporate health insurance in the UK. Just to be clear, NHS heath care isn't 'free', it's free at the point of use, paid for out of taxes, and UK government philosophy of low taxation (it wins elections) has resulted in underfunding of the health service for decades. In Indonesia we pa ...[text shortened]... good hospital, and there's no waiting. I'd far rather be sick in Indonesia right now than in the UK.
Most things are self-limiting so you would be sent away with painkillers and advice. You'd need to reappear with a persistent pain with significant incapacity to get close and even then, you might advance straight to physio without investigations to confirm the diagnosis.
In Northern Ireland this would be an absolute truth and almost always the case in the north of England.