Health Matters

For the last month I have been back on the Bisoprolol Fumarate at it's lowest dose, and as anticipated it's effects are hitting my daily activities. The paperwork specifically says 'do not take if your pulse rate is below 60BPM, which mine is, but the consultant 'thought it was worth trying to reduce the messy pulses'. As last time I was on it, my light-headedness has returned, and I'm struggling to get the raised heart rate exercise anything near the recommended 150 m…

Starting point on looking at 'Am I stressed' bbc article today

That was yesterday. Having had another interrupted nights sleep, I was awake at 5AM reading. The continual push by the Samsung health apps that this must be down to stress perhaps does not help along with it's insistence that I need to go to bed and wake up consistently! I am happy with my nighttime routine and have been going to bed at 9PM for the la…

I am currently happy with my morning exercise regime. I do 20 minutes of warm up, physio for my knee and back and HIT to get may heart rate up. Am I getting any advantage from doing it every day? I simply don't know and while professional advise has been to ease off, I am trying to keep to a target of 6000 steps and 60 minutes with 20 minutes of increased heart rate exercise. On top of that I am normally covering an extra 2000 steps of activity, and over the whole week I still manage on a…

Been a while since I updated the health log and I should perhaps make sure I do it a little more often. I have just finished my morning 'physio/warm-up' session, a little later than normal as I was deep in trying to finish another piece of the software jigsaw. One of the problems I have is with my memory and this morning I was doing the warm-up and simply could not remember the next step a couple of times. I'd had a poor nights sleep again caused probably mainly because I've b…

The problem today everywhere seems to be the lack of communication. I've FINALLY recieved my medical notes from Wolverhampton, or at least some of them. Since 'Practice Plus' is a different part of the NHS, only the letters set to the hospital arm are included, and the one thing I was trying to get records of, the ultrasound of my knee, which I thought the hospital carried out, was missing. There is no link to a data access request visible on the Practice Plus website, so I have h…