For many men by the time blood pressure becomes a big issue, hair has become more of a long lost friend.
Having dealt with hypertension myself, you’d be shocked just how quietly it sneaks up on you. You can feel fine at 150/100+ and you’re half way to BP levels that cause strokes.
This is good, it makes men think about their health, besides, you’re just sat there, may as well take 30 seconds to take a reading.
Feel a lot of comments are missing the point, yeah chemists and GP’s can check your blood pressure but that can be daunting to specifically go to those places to have it checked, or folk aren’t even thinking about having it checked where as at a barbers if you’re already there getting a trim and they suddenly ask
If you want your blood pressure checking more I imagine will go yeah fuck it why not have it done.
It seems to be that. NHS england likes to take parts of health care provision and slowly wheel it towards the door away from health care settings. It might be a matter of stages like the new so called mental health practitioners in surgeries. Who will probably have booths in the supermarkets given a year or two.
All these spinny poorly thought out and undeliverable initiatives are just fig leaves.
Early diagnosis memes are of little use when beyond diagnosis the is chaos cancelations and multi year waits to get the diagnosed treatment.
As a member of the bald community, I kinda feel left out.
If your blood pressure is too high, will barber shops once again offer bloodletting services?
They can replace their crappy plastic red spirals outside their shops with real bloody bandages like they used to!
“How’s that for you mate?”
“Yeah that looks great cheers mate”
*Blood pressure machine starts violently beeping*
I’m not saying the NHS is fucked, but they are bringing back Barber Surgeons.
You can get a health checkup in pharmacies for things like blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes etc. The problem is that you usually need to be over 40 to get one. It’s annoying as I feel like allowing people to have a checkup and fix their health in their 20’s and 30’s would solve a lot of problems before they even start, and then save the NHS bucketloads of money in the long run.
I’m 35 and I went to my local Boots pharmacy a couple of weeks ago and asked for a blood pressure check. They were happy to do it, but I think it’s at the discretion of the pharmacist so not guaranteed. Still trying to find somewhere I can get a cholesterol check, but I think I’m going to end up having to pay for one.
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and something for the weekend, sir?
*Offers you a box of blood pressure pills*
Don’t some high street chemists offer free blood pressure checks? I have my own monitor so I can check my own regularly.
I go to the local chemist to get my free blood pressure check
if you got the money defiantly good to have your own no matter the gender they not badly priced either. [ILE Blood Pressure Monitors CE Approved UK Blood Pressure Machines for Home Use Heart Monitor, Blood-Pressure](https://www.amazon.co.uk/AILE-Pressure-Monitors-Machines-Blood-Pressure/dp/B0919T22NQ/ref=sr_1_19?keywords=heart+rate+monitor&qid=1693313520&sprefix=heart+%2Caps%2C246&sr=8-19) if people want one.
For many men by the time blood pressure becomes a big issue, hair has become more of a long lost friend.
Having dealt with hypertension myself, you’d be shocked just how quietly it sneaks up on you. You can feel fine at 150/100+ and you’re half way to BP levels that cause strokes.
This is good, it makes men think about their health, besides, you’re just sat there, may as well take 30 seconds to take a reading.
Feel a lot of comments are missing the point, yeah chemists and GP’s can check your blood pressure but that can be daunting to specifically go to those places to have it checked, or folk aren’t even thinking about having it checked where as at a barbers if you’re already there getting a trim and they suddenly ask
If you want your blood pressure checking more I imagine will go yeah fuck it why not have it done.
It seems to be that. NHS england likes to take parts of health care provision and slowly wheel it towards the door away from health care settings. It might be a matter of stages like the new so called mental health practitioners in surgeries. Who will probably have booths in the supermarkets given a year or two.
All these spinny poorly thought out and undeliverable initiatives are just fig leaves.
Early diagnosis memes are of little use when beyond diagnosis the is chaos cancelations and multi year waits to get the diagnosed treatment.
As a member of the bald community, I kinda feel left out.
If your blood pressure is too high, will barber shops once again offer bloodletting services?
They can replace their crappy plastic red spirals outside their shops with real bloody bandages like they used to!
“How’s that for you mate?”
“Yeah that looks great cheers mate”
*Blood pressure machine starts violently beeping*
I’m not saying the NHS is fucked, but they are bringing back Barber Surgeons.
You can get a health checkup in pharmacies for things like blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes etc. The problem is that you usually need to be over 40 to get one. It’s annoying as I feel like allowing people to have a checkup and fix their health in their 20’s and 30’s would solve a lot of problems before they even start, and then save the NHS bucketloads of money in the long run.
I’m 35 and I went to my local Boots pharmacy a couple of weeks ago and asked for a blood pressure check. They were happy to do it, but I think it’s at the discretion of the pharmacist so not guaranteed. Still trying to find somewhere I can get a cholesterol check, but I think I’m going to end up having to pay for one.