Exercise therapy for intermittent claudication

Good afternoon sir, thank you very much for talking to us. Good afternoon, that's alright. What did you come to see me with initially when you first came? I came to see you because my walking was getting bad. And you were getting pain somewhere? And I was getting pains and I had to stop. Claudication we called it, didn't we? Yes. How far were you getting? About 200 metres. Even less than that where you initially came? Possibly, yeah. And it was interrupting your life and it was not very good. I had to have two or three stops when you walked to the newspaper around the corner. the course even though 200 meters you have to stop a couple of times before you got there and what did i say you had all your investigations your pipes are blocked and i said to you what should you do take some tablets take aspirin and statin exercise every day yeah and you keep a track of your of how far you walk don't you on your step count on a little uh little gizmo that they give and how long has it been now since you've been doing all this oh well since the last Yeah, so it's been what, a few months? A year. In that year, you've gone up from maybe less than 100 yards. Oh yeah, well over that. Three quarters of a mile. Three quarters of a mile. Sometimes a little longer, with a rest in between, and a rest is only for about a minute. So, you know, we haven't touched you, we haven't done any operations on you, we haven't made any cuts on you, we haven't put any balloons down your leg. No. And look at you, it can't be, are you happy with the result? Yeah, I am quite happy, yeah. Do you feel like you're interrupted in terms of your life at all or you well being retarded? But it's gone Yeah, I can walk you see I walk and After I don't know maybe about quarter of a mile. I can feel the pain so I sit on some knees wall. Yeah Get me watch look at two minutes get up It's a quarter of a mile you can manage at a stretch. Yes. Is that enough for you? Are you happy with that? We're happy with that, aren't we? Yes. Yeah, quite happy with it. So in terms of treatment options, you're happy you made the right choice and you're content as a couple? I think so. If it gets all that much worse, I don't have to come and see you to drill them out, that's it. We don't really want to go down any invasion because he's had too many other problems. And you don't really need it now. You're doing so well. I don't think so. Well, thank you very much for sharing that with us. That's all right. You're very welcome.