Soldato
I went to my doctor this morning to check a couple of things. I hope you're not eating.
I noticed my toilet paper was stained with blood a couple of times this week. 
Would seem to have gone now and I suspected perhaps a mild fissure or haemorrhoid. More the latter as I could feel a sort of inflated cushion part around you know where. Doctor (mid 40's milf'ish female 
and not my normal male doctor) told me to pull my pants down and lie on my side in an almost fetal position. I'd already showered vigorously half expecting this. Wasn't as embarrasing as I thought tbh, you see it all the time on that channel 4 'embarrasing bodies' programme. But it's not particularly dignified, lol. She, like me, suspects it's superficial and to do with that inflated part, and doesn't think it's anything from further up the colon. As I say, it seems to have gone now anyway, so I guess it was superficial, thank god. Nevertheless she suggested getting a blood test.
Prior to that examination, she gave me a blood pressure test with the arm band. She did it 3 times to let my pulse rate settle. It went from 166 down to 150, by which time I was pretty relaxed. I'm wondering if it would be any lower when I'm not having the test, because those arm pressure tests tend to make my pulse rate go up. Anyway, 150 is nothing to really worry about she said, and I am 52 so it's more normal for higher BP at my age. However, it is borderline hypertension, so she gave me a card with 'borderline hypertension' written on it, to go book myself a blood test and cholestrol test. It's one injection. I've booked myself in for next friday morning and it means fasting for 12 hours from 10pm the night before. Gawd!
Then I'll go back to the doc the following week when they'll have the results. I suspect what will come out of all this will be advice on lowering cholestrol and blood pressure, or perhaps mostly cholestrol.
Anyone here with higher than average BP? How hard would it be for me to get my BP down by 10mmHg to 140? I think i'm going to cut out almost all salt in my food for a start and remove all skins from chicken thighs and legs as those are all bad. She never told me my diastolic number, I wish I'd asked. Just the systolic.
I noticed my toilet paper was stained with blood a couple of times this week. Would seem to have gone now and I suspected perhaps a mild fissure or haemorrhoid. More the latter as I could feel a sort of inflated cushion part around you know where. Doctor (mid 40's milf'ish female and not my normal male doctor) told me to pull my pants down and lie on my side in an almost fetal position. I'd already showered vigorously half expecting this. Wasn't as embarrasing as I thought tbh, you see it all the time on that channel 4 'embarrasing bodies' programme. But it's not particularly dignified, lol. She, like me, suspects it's superficial and to do with that inflated part, and doesn't think it's anything from further up the colon. As I say, it seems to have gone now anyway, so I guess it was superficial, thank god. Nevertheless she suggested getting a blood test.Prior to that examination, she gave me a blood pressure test with the arm band. She did it 3 times to let my pulse rate settle. It went from 166 down to 150, by which time I was pretty relaxed. I'm wondering if it would be any lower when I'm not having the test, because those arm pressure tests tend to make my pulse rate go up. Anyway, 150 is nothing to really worry about she said, and I am 52 so it's more normal for higher BP at my age. However, it is borderline hypertension, so she gave me a card with 'borderline hypertension' written on it, to go book myself a blood test and cholestrol test. It's one injection. I've booked myself in for next friday morning and it means fasting for 12 hours from 10pm the night before. Gawd!
Then I'll go back to the doc the following week when they'll have the results. I suspect what will come out of all this will be advice on lowering cholestrol and blood pressure, or perhaps mostly cholestrol. Anyone here with higher than average BP? How hard would it be for me to get my BP down by 10mmHg to 140? I think i'm going to cut out almost all salt in my food for a start and remove all skins from chicken thighs and legs as those are all bad. She never told me my diastolic number, I wish I'd asked. Just the systolic.
