Following on from my celebratory post re kicking diabetes in the butt - did you know that diabetes and heart disease can go hand in hand? I didn't either until I had a heart attack in 2018. Once I recovered I went on a steep learning journey about causes, recovery, and damage limitation.
One of the many things I learnt was how intrinsic things like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, your weight and lifestyle can impact on what is happening to your heart.
The takeaway for me was that if I had been having a regular Health MOT, then perhaps I wouldn't have had the heart attack, got diabetes or high blood pressure. The higher cholesterol for me is familial, so I have to keep an eye on that baby.
I learnt that doing simple, self care checks such as taking my blood pressure, monitoring blood sugar levels and cholesterol levels would have given me an earlier indication of these things and I would like to think I would have done things differently.
I am not here to tell you what to do, nor am I a medical professional. I am just someone who learnt the hard way that self care is about all of you - from the inside to outside, from the top of your head to the tip of your toes - and not one piece or part of you.
So go on, put some time in your day to do some self care. And if you think you are too young - you are reading this so that makes you old enough to do some self care.
I have dropped some Amazon Affiliate Links for the monitors I use, but of course you don't have to get them from here - and you can always pop along to your medical practitioner to get these areas monitored by them.
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