Longtime no see!!!

[Oilpants]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
210 over 135? Are you serious? If so, your risk for a very serious cardiac/pulmonary event is astronomical. Stroke/heart attack etc. You should be on medication like yesterday. 140 over 90 is the usual threshold when you need to take high blood pressure seriously.


Drew dont scar me like that by telling me my odd's!!! I think my blood pressure just shot trough the roof. Im doing what I can and I am on Thalitone. My doctor told me to not get excited and to find a relaxing activity.

 

[Oilpants]

Originally Posted By: sayjac
For your health sake I hope your quoke also prescribed some meds to lower your BP down while you're searching for a hobby, and reducing your sodium intake...seriously. Want you to stay around for awhile.

For my information, what is an "icky stick"? Not familiar with the term.


As I found out after catching my first fish it was a bass the guy next to me asked me if I wanted the fish to slowly suffercate in the bucket of ice water or if I wanted to us e his icky stick. The icky stick turned out to be a screwdriver with the tip filed to a sharp piont. You stab the fish into the brain with it. I didnt want to do that and smacked him with my soda bottle on the head. I suppose a glass bottle would have worked beter!! I don't think fishing is for me??

 

[Mr Nice]

MY BP is around 130 over 90.... I think thats normal

 

[Drew99GT]

90 for your diastolic is considered high blood pressure. 130 is considered pre-hypertension for systolic.

 

[Cup of Joe]

Drew the new numbers are anything 135/85 is acceptable but needing observation.

I have to admit I feel a bit of a tug on the leg. For the record I have had BP in the 210/140 range, I was immediately admitted to the ER and had to lie down while they monitored my BP until it came back down. No ECG that time.

I've had a few of those. Watching your sodium intake would have little effect unless you have some serious intake going on. "IF" the BP's are correct I see medication in your future and you should be monitoring it daily. A 24 hour monitor can also be extremely useful. My personal BP's are elevated particularly when I am asleep.

 

[Sayjac]

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Drew the new numbers are anything 135/85 is acceptable but needing observation.
My doctor is monitoring my BP since my last physical in June. Bought an Omron auto BP machine (my doctor recommended) from Amazon, and took it 3 times a week for a month, averaged in the mid to low 130's, over low to mid 80's. He doesn't consider that hypertension.

Funny thing (or not), I bring the machine to the follow up visit, take my bp in the office and it's 160 over 90 something with the machine. I was like dang, not one reading was even close to that previously. He retakes it with his cuff and gets a similar reading, but after reviewing all my saved BP's over the month period he wasn't alarmed and said I shouldn't be. Called the reading in his office 'white coat syndrone', high BP from doctor visit. Anyway, no meds yet, just take it a once a week reading and follow up in 3 months. Currently about the same as before follow up visit.

Not afraid to take meds if I need them and there is some family history of hypertension but no heart disease. fyi, the Omron auto cuff BP machine is very good. Disclaimer, I don't work Omron or have any affiliation.

 

[Cup of Joe]

Good man for taking it seriously. The machines are convienent but like a $20 UOA not always considered 100% accurate. From my personal experience they are much better then using nothing at all. What I have found is depending on cuff size they may actually read high.

Exercise, weight loss and monitoring your sodium intake is the typical reccomendation. I have taken allot of the available BP meds on the market try to avoid beta blockers. For mild Hypertension a low does of HCTZ is typically percribed.

http://www.drugs.com/hctz.html

I should add even if it was actaully 160/90 that is not that bad, the systolic would be elevated and the diastolic is right at the limit for requiring treatment. But of the 2 the diastolic is the greater concern. The diastolic beat is when the heart is at rest, if its always elevated the heart is under undo stress.

 

[Sayjac]

Yeah, that's one of the reasons he asked me to bring the machine in with my visit. In addition to reviewing my readings he wanted to check it against his manual cuff/steth reading.

He uses the same machine, and several of his patients use the same. And, he mentioned that a patient the day I went, had a similar out of his norm high reading in his office.

Also said, if I needed something it would be an inexpensive one pill a day with little side effects. Probably the same/similar to the water pill you posted. If he says I need it, no problem.