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I don't do medical, it's boring and I don't usually want people to know about my medical situation but I would really quite like to share this one.

As you know, I grew up under enormous stress, it was my norm, and then I had a very difficult time with OH and it worked a seven day week for several years. I was a little wound up!

Feeling a little off colour, I went to the doctor who took my blood pressure and went white. It would have been high for a giraffe, 240/140.

I took the pills (six) and got on with it, going back when I was called for them to do whatever they do. Just before Fred died, I felt that my blood pressure was high again, the doctor was due to retire and he couldn't get his machine to work so he just gave me a higher dose of one pill and that worked fine.

A couple of months ago, I was called in and it had shot up again to 180 over something.That was when I was having all the aggro with the refurbishments at home and the water heater problems.

The water heater is now fixed but I have been feeling a bit off colour since. So much so last week that I lost my temper and decided the bloody pills were doing no good at all and there was no point taking them so I wouldn't.

I felt so well! Carried on for five days before I lost my nerve and took them again but I did book an appointment with the doctor.

112/ 67. It was LOW blood pressure making me feel ill!!!!!

I can believe that!!

s lot of your stress has gone ......... and people often forget that low blood pressure can cause as many problems as high blood pressure.


Keep well!!

Just after you have taken your medication your BP will be slightly lower than for the rest of the day so don't worry about it...it will catch up..lol

I have been taking BP tablets for 25 years and it does go up and down during the day , it isn't always the same all of the time, and much safer to be low than high..
:-)

Sharron, that's a good pressure reading. A perfect score would be 110/70. Obviously a lot depends on you health and any conditions u may have so this is only a guide. I wouldnt consider my pressure low unless it was 100/60 or less. It's the bottom figure you have to worry about especially if it 90 and over. S0 150/95 would be high enough to make the doctor monitor you regularly for several readings, usually 3 and then they work out an average.

I actually have my own machine and it compares very well to the readings done with my Gp so i know it's accurate.Might be worth buying one if you really concerned but u also need to go maybe monthly and let gp check til it settles perhaps.

Hope it will eventually

Florence
in the hebrides :-)

Brilliant - no more blood pressure pills! <3

I had very low BP as a 'youff' - but the doctors never did anything about it. It only went high when I started suffering from work related stress - and for me, even 120/80 was high - but it was much higher. I've been on a low dose BP pill for a couple of years. I also take my BP at home (white coat syndrome), and when I go to the doc, I have a list of my BP over the past few days (it fluctuates a lot in the space of 5 minutes, which my doc finds fascinating)

Anyway, as my dosage is so low, I can stop when I get 'normal' or low readings over 2 weeks.

It's just remembering to take my BP that is holding me up :-\

The original one would have killed a giraffe.

I can't believe I have halved it.

Now, that would be a very dangerous thing for anybody else!

I'm the same as maggie ...............

i have white coat syndrome, and have had my own machine at home for over 10 years.

The doctor now looks at the readings in my book, looks at the much higher one he has just recorded ........... and goes with the book! I am on pretty high doses of 3 bp medications.

They do ask me to take my machine in every now and again so they can check the readings against what they get on the office machine. It's always very close!


My highest recordings were in the hospital after the last mastectomy ............. the nurses were panicking like you wouldn't believe. One kept saying "are you sure you don't have a headache? You should have a headache?"

Nope ........... but I did have major pain in my chest that they wouldn't give me anything for but Tylenol 3 (equivalent of your paracetamol with small amount of codeine).

The highest was 227/95 .............. that's when they called for a specialist to come up to the ward! Took her 3 hours to come ....... then she gave me a tranquiliser.

BP was still higher than it should have been next morning, but the surgeon decided I would probably be better going home, on condition that I went straight to emergency if bp didn't drop within a certain number of hours.

It did, so I didn't :-)

I think we can safely say there will be no home blood pressure machine here. That would imply some degree of interest.

If you could see the arm wrestling that goes on to get me to take any pills at all you would understand.

My daughter has White Coat Syndrome which means her blood pressure goes through the roof every time she visits the GP.

She has has her own monitor, takes her own blood pressure about twice a week ( in front of witnesses) and holds the results on her phone.

Her new GP was sceptical at first but, he now accepts that she does NOT suffer from high blood pressure and it is caused by WCS.

My GP says that White Coat Syndrome is an accepted fact in the medical profession.

Blood pressure is always highest when taken by a doctor, lower when done by a nurse and lowest of all when done at home. So I was told to get a machine, to use it a couple of times a week and to see the doctor if my blood pressurestayed above a sensible level for too long.

He also said that the best time of day, for the lowest readings, is about teatime. Mine are always lowest first thing in the morning, so I am unusual, apparently. :-S :-S :-S :-)

I'd forgotten about using my monitor,
dug it out and lo and behold..........108/59
any lower and I'd be flat lining I think..........
pr 73


last reading I took several months ago was 141/79

pr 59