June 8th, 2007
Not Training is Good For You
Inspired by recent stabbing chest pains I made an appointment to see doctors.
Cue the usual tests in the docs office - blood pressure, sharp intake of breath as cold stethoscope applied to moobs, pokes in the ribs etc.
ECG and blood tests cued up, and I’ve to keep an asthma diary. Blood tests took ages. Not just one test but two as apparently progress is all to do with reducing the amount of DNA they need to find to criminalise you for terrorism, not the amount they need to bleed you for to test for common illnesses, so it was two armfuls they needed to test my cholesterol, ESR, MDMA and who knows what….
ECG scared me ‘cos my relaxed heart rate - that I expect when busy doing nothing, working the whole day through - has dropped from 60 to 48. Didn’t sound good to me. Thus prompted to measure my resting and max rates I got another scare. Resting down from 48 to 35. Max down from 190 to 170. Not liking those drops. Still, at least the worry raised it a bit…
Today, finally, the NHS got it’s collective filing systems synchronised and I had a follow-up appointment with the doctor.
Doc explained that the six months completely off the bike over winter was probably the first time in 15 years that I’ve allowed my body to completely recover from the strains I’ve been putting on it. That and cutting out the caffeine so that I’m not living perma-loaded with low-dosage stimulants accounts for the heart rate he reckons. Clean bill of health apart from asthma so I’m back on Salbutamol as needed. /thinks: perfect timing for SSUK.
All in all a pleasant change talking with a young (<50) doctor who asked questions about how much and how extreme (Hah!) my exercise had been in the last 15 years.
The chest pains that triggered all this? Stop falling off bloody bikes and horses - it’s knackering my ribs.
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June 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I am glad you’ve received a clean bill of health. It must be great not to have to that worry hanging over you. So all you have to worry about is what tyres for summer…
June 12th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I’m on semi-slicks already :)