When I had an assessment at my GP surgery a few (?) years ago, the assessor commented my Q risk score was the lowest she'd recorded. I reckon this made the healthiest chronically ill patient in the practice 🙂.
Regrettably my mother has since suffered severe intermittent claudication in one limb... in itself odd as her bmi is even lower than mine, she's very active, has never smoked, rarely drinks and has always eaten healthily. So my Q risk has just rocketed. We can change our lifestyles but not our family history!
Another comment to say thank you, and promise I’m not a stalker! I’m Just gobsmacked by so much common sense and joined up thinking in your newsletters! I truly believe that pwMS would massively benefit from neurologists who look at the entire patient holistically and join up the dots to devise a programme to optimise each patient, doctors who are not afraid to say loose weight and stop smoking/drinking and to measure the impact of not doing so! When you were asking what a well-being clinic would be - it is what you are initiating with these newsletters, addressing the whole pwMS and helping the patient make the connections between different health factors - its really not obvious to the patient how things interact and relate, different conditions are treated by different specialists in silos, and it’s fairly opaque for a patient to therefore connect dots. For example, I had no idea my cholesterol might impact my MS and if I had, I would have asked for statins years ago!
Fasting is the answer
When I had an assessment at my GP surgery a few (?) years ago, the assessor commented my Q risk score was the lowest she'd recorded. I reckon this made the healthiest chronically ill patient in the practice 🙂.
Regrettably my mother has since suffered severe intermittent claudication in one limb... in itself odd as her bmi is even lower than mine, she's very active, has never smoked, rarely drinks and has always eaten healthily. So my Q risk has just rocketed. We can change our lifestyles but not our family history!
Another comment to say thank you, and promise I’m not a stalker! I’m Just gobsmacked by so much common sense and joined up thinking in your newsletters! I truly believe that pwMS would massively benefit from neurologists who look at the entire patient holistically and join up the dots to devise a programme to optimise each patient, doctors who are not afraid to say loose weight and stop smoking/drinking and to measure the impact of not doing so! When you were asking what a well-being clinic would be - it is what you are initiating with these newsletters, addressing the whole pwMS and helping the patient make the connections between different health factors - its really not obvious to the patient how things interact and relate, different conditions are treated by different specialists in silos, and it’s fairly opaque for a patient to therefore connect dots. For example, I had no idea my cholesterol might impact my MS and if I had, I would have asked for statins years ago!