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*admiring.....that's neat Ann! XX

Course it could have changed now!!!

EARLY LAST YEAR I WAS VERY ILL.
MY BLOOD COUNT DROPPED TO 7
AND BP..AT ONE TIME 80/60.
SIX MOTHS OF TESTS STILL NOT FULL BLOOD
COUNT ,BETWEEN 9-10

Island, that sounds like it's more to do with your fear of needles than anything else. My OH is also terrified of needles and has been known to pass out at blood tests, at the sight of the.

The fainting is cause by a drop in BP, so your fear will have caused that.

Thank goodness, you had me worried there.

2 WEEKS AGO WE SPENT SIX HOURS AT A&E
STABLISING M-I-L
HER BP 225/100+ AND AT 84
IN DANGER OF A STROKE

WHY BECAUSE SHE NEVER TAKES HER FUDDY BP TABLETS

Island, may I ask who takes your blood, and what do they use to take it with.... the old fashioned syringe style or a butterfly thingy? And is it in your surgery or at the hospital?

I ask, because the phlebotomist has said that I should now only allow my blood to be taken using a butterfly thing (and I have the one they use on babies, as my veins have been shot to pieces with the health blip) and at the hospital, not the surgery.... my surgery will not pay out to have the butterfly things for me.

As you have bloods taken so regularly, I just wondered?

Love

Daff xxx Edit... just re-read your last post, and it looks like you already go to the hospital.... well ask them if they could try using the blue butterfly... it is so tiny it is almost painless almost every time... and I am difficult to get blood from! 3 attempts on Monday just gone, and arms are black and blue... but not painful, just refused to bleed. xxxx

I know naff all about high BP only had when I was ill or pregnant, but wouldnt be worth a try to lower your alcohol intake....





Runs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>lol

I didnt tell her BC...honest, I never breathed a word.

Must add my bit here, and it was when I stoppped alcohol that it went down dramatically! I had been once 284 (so I believe you Daff), and with the most complicated cocktail of drugs got it down to 17Oish (the doctor showed me the letter he had written to a consultant saying "she won't give up alcohol what shall I do") Then I had to start Metformin for diabetes, and it just didn't mix with alcohol, I felt dreadful! so stopped the drink - and within two or three months I was down to 130. I am still taking the same complicated mixture, but I do feel a lot safer!

Eliazbeth thank you ...lol

Elizabeth... one flaw there, lololol.... in the days when my bp was really really high.... I didn't drink!! It would be another 10 years before I discovered the joy of a robust Aussie red, lol.... and even then... the red was *prescribed* by my then GP cos.... dah rah.... I can't take aspirin, and it was fashionable for folk at risk to take it.... I used to hold my nose and drink a small glass of wine and behave like I was being poisoned, lol I soon developed a taste for it, though ;¬))

At the moment, I like my sherry and wine, but can't drink it because it makes me so ill.... and also, it actually doesn't taste nice now my smell and taste are gradually coming back. But fingers crossed it will soon taste like the nectar it is!

Love

Daff xxxx.

Daff -- me too, the baby butterfly thing. ;)

But, a tech did tell me a couple of years ago that it's a good thing to drink a glass of water before having blood taken, and I've found it does help.

The time I almost passed out was when a nurse was using the butterfly thing -- what happens is the blood then runs out of your arm in a tube to wherever they're collecting it, instead of being sucked out into the syringe. Now, I've never been squeamish about blood (just occasionally very agitated with stupid people trying to get it out of me) but I happend to glance over ... and saw the blood running down the tube ... and just about passed out. My mind wasn't bothered by the sight, but my body didn't like it at all!

Anyhow, I'm agreeing -- make them use that if they have to gouge you up to get it the regular way. And ask whether it's okay to drink some water before having blood taken.

Oh, and - my dad took a pharmacist's advice to try a little red wine to try to get his good cholesterol up. Only he didn't like it either. He was spending the winter in Florida, so he went to one of those "party stores" and got a gallon jug of the cheapest red stuff they had, and had a little bit each night mixed with 7-Up.

Yes, blurgh.

I've lost me Daff!!!!!

Omg what has happened.... I feel like I am parading in me longjohns, lol.... must go and sort this!

let's see if this brings it back, lolol

yep, this sorted it... I had somehow managed to lose my boardname, but it's back now, lolol

Thank you all fo your input and I have a rough idea what I shall ask the Dr. And to the heckler in the balcony, thank you Hayley, yes I shall stop drinking....yeah right......Lol BC XX

We'll all come with you, if you like, BC.... and if you get the wrong stuff, we can all slam the surgery door... loudly, lolol

Love

Daff xxx

Thanks Daff! They are a useless practice, I really should change doctors.. Thank goodness for GR and t'internet is what I say! lol BCXX

good luck BC.

when we take mum to the DR's she sits there like a naughty girl whist we do the talking...


BC I am booking a ticket and taking you myself... :))))))

Thanks Island, and I hope you get yours sorted too:-) BC XX