I expose myself with the results from my physical and blood work

[chrisinhouston]

So I went to my new doctor to have a physical since I need refills on my BP meds which were running out after a year and I figured he would want to check to see if I do in fact have a heart beat before prescribing anything. This Dr. is the first general kind of family Dr. I have had in some years, I saw him for the first time last fall just to see if I liked him and he passed the test. I was seeing a cardiologist for the BP but got tired of him because he always kept you waiting for an hour or more and he liked to share his political views which didn't match mine, he liked to go on and on about how Obamacare was going to put him out of business. He also wanted me to have a nuclear stress test just to see what it said even though there is no history of heart disease in my family. I guess if my insurance would pay him that was somehow better than the insurance under Obamacare.

So the new Dr. sees me and gives me a pretty easy physical. His nurse did my vitals and recorded them. He went over my medications and I explained I see a pulmonary Dr. once a year for my asthma issues and he handles those meds and also that I see my Urologist for the male plumbing issues, he said that was fine with him. He looked in my ears and listened to me breathing and my heartbeat with his stethoscope and pushed on my stomach as I lay on my back. No other things like an EKG or anything else, he said my heart beat was a bit fast but I rode my bike to his office so maybe that was why, he wasn't too concerned. Then he said I should have a booster Tetanus shot and also thought I should have the pneumonia vaccine because of my asthma. He also wanted to do blood work, the usual panel and a Lipid test as well as a blood sugar test that averages the last 3 months called an AC1 test.

My arms hurt from the vaccines, I forgot about how they do that. Feels like someone punched me real good.

The blood tests came back and overall are good, they have a website I could go download them at which is nice. My cholesterol is pretty good, a bit high overall but both the HDL and LDL were really good. I guess all that steel cut oatmeal pays off.

My fasting sugar level was higher than I would like at 157 but that's about where it was a year ago when I had blood work. They say the preferred range is 65-99. I think the extra pounds I carry probably pushes it up. Everything else looked good according to what they recommend for the normal range and what my numbers were. And the AC1 test also showed a tad over normal, the standard range is 4.8-5.6% and I am at 5.9%.

So he gave me the refill for the entire year which what I had hoped for. He said he felt ok with the blood work numbers and just to keep exercising and loose some weight and avoid the foods that I already seem to avoid.

I had hoped the numbers would have been better, especially with all the walking I do. I do aerobic walking about 6 out of 7 days in a week and usually do 4.5 miles of that. I wear a pedometer and I try to get over 12000 steps per day which is like 6 miles. Oh well, summer is here so I will be riding a bike and swimming more. On the other hand I'm 58 and don't have any great wishes to live to be 100. If I hit 75 I'll be happy. To many memories of my parents in their final years to make me want to be in my 80's or 90's.