The hypertension, high blood pressure club ?

[500e]

Not To far away From Yours @ajlelectronics just started on 1 BP pill at 83
145/68 average over a month

 

[Colin Barron]

4 months ago mine would not drop below 150/90, but losing 2 stone, eating less garbage, exercising more, cutting down my booze (a bit...) and it now tests at 125/70 most days.

The hardest part of it all is making sure I keep at the health regimen. My self control is not the greatest......

This is the difficult route to reducing weight and not so popular. The best way for me to lose weight is to send my wife to slimming world which results in less cakes and biscuits coming into the house, also she makes more healthy meals and fish and chips/ take aways are not so often.

 

[ajlelectronics]

This is the difficult route to reducing weight and not so popular. The best way for me to lose weight is to send my wife to slimming world which results in less cakes and biscuits coming into the house, also she makes more healthy meals and fish and chips/ take aways are not so often.

Oh yes. I am ashamed to say and disgusted with myself for giving in to temptation... 'Er indoors put a fruit bowl full of her sweeties in front of me the other day. My protestations went unheeded and ended I up feeling sick too.

 

[Onoff]

My stress levels because of work are off the scale at the moment. Can't sleep, grinding my teeth, all in all not good. Having a **** time tbh.

Last week I really thought I was going to have a sudden massive heart attack. Sat reading this and I thought I'd do mine. Don't really understand it tbh or really care anymore. This appears the "worst of 3". The other two times, big number was 135 then 137.

 

[Onoff]

Got one of these too:

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[addjunkie]

My stress levels because of work are off the scale at the moment. Can't sleep, grinding my teeth, all in all not good. Having a **** time tbh.

Last week I really thought I was going to have a sudden massive heart attack. Sat reading this and I thought I'd do mine. Don't really understand it tbh or really care anymore. This appears the "worst of 3". The other two times, big number was 135 then 137.

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The diastolic number is the more important …….88 is a tad higher than what they say is normal. 120 over 80. Id suggest taking it at the same time everyday, take it twice, and record. Discuss with Dr practice nurse at next visit.

Best thing I ever did was to remove work related stress, but if you cant retire you need to find a away to reduce it!

 

[prepman]

Thought I'd do mine too.
BP 140/82 P 57 SAT 95 ECG = Bradycardia (pulse <60) All thanks to a shed load of tablets. Oh!... and a pacemaker. Bumetanide keeps my lungs from flooding at the cost of near incontinence.
My heart bleeds for a poor woman in a supermarket who was refused toilet use and ended up in pool of pee at the checkout. Can't find the article Kent maybe?
135/70:60 now. Changeable after one coffee.

 

[premmington]

Thought I'd do mine too.
BP 140/82 P 57 SAT 95 ECG = Bradycardia (pulse <60) All thanks to a shed load of tablets. Oh!... and a pacemaker. Bumetanide keeps my lungs from flooding at the the cost of near incontinence.
My heart bleeds for a poor woman in a supermarket who was refused toilet use and ended up in pool of pee at the checkout. Can't find the article Kent maybe?
135/70:60 now. Changeable after one coffee.

I am 130/80...

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@prepman Bumetanide: My 90yr old Mother has these twice a day - she urinates like a race horse - does help with her mobilty thou - first two hours after she taken them - she just up and down to the toilet all the while. I mean - by the time - when she got back from the downstairs toilet to her chair - she gotta go again. No joke mate: In the two years she been taking them - her walking is a lot better - no walking stick. She nearly stands up straight now. Bumentanide tablets are like going to the gym for a little old lady who is too proud to wear nappies.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Don't really understand it tbh or really care anymore. This appears the "worst of 3". The other two times, big number was 135 then 137.

It's not uncommon for someone of our age to see figures like that. It is in the mild region so nothing you need to call 999 about. Take your pressure at the same time every day after sitting quietly and upright, with legs on the floor. Try to relax and take two or three readings. My doctor suggests recording the lowest (usually my first read), other doctors suggest the average. Oh and make sure that you aren't needing the toilet!

 

[ajlelectronics]

Also, don't get hung up on one or more days when it is high. As an example, here is my month...

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

I just did a full week of readings for the nurse, twice a day, all were 12_ over 8_ , so pretty good for me, except for one that was up at 156/92, after my Mrs had been taking about getting a dog! Over my dead body I said! She said, yes it will be.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Looks like I am doing something right.

Could it be called 'being retired'?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

than what they say is normal. 120 over 80

Aren't they the ideal readings for a 25 year old though?

 

[ajlelectronics]

This morning's read in order... 133, 131, 129.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Could it be called 'being retired'?

I have more stress than I did, currently. However I am also more active which I am convinced is a 'Biggy'.

 

[Seadog]

Got one of these too:

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A pulse oximeter. It reads the SpO2, the amount of oxygen saturation in your blood - 95% in the case above which is OK. It also shows pulse. It's really just an indicator of lung function, unless the figure is very low 80 or lower, in which case it shows anaemia. But you'd probably already be under medical care by then.

 

[Colin Barron]

I have more stress than I did, currently. However I am also more active which I am convinced is a 'Biggy'.

This reminds me of a cartoon in the paper a while ago.
Inside a hospital there are two door options:
Door one has a sign above it saying 'SELF HELP', there was no queue. Door two has a sign above it saying 'SURGICAL HELP' this had a very long queue.

 

[Onoff]

A pulse oximeter. It reads the SpO2, the amount of oxygen saturation in your blood - 95% in the case above which is OK. It also shows pulse. It's really just an indicator of lung fubction, unless tge figure is very low 80 or lower, in which case it shows anaemia. But you'd probably already be under medical care by then.

That's it! We used it one on my Dad and worried, called the ambulance. He was tbh circling the drain. The paramedics came and said tbh this type is a bit inaccurate to their own devices.

 

[addjunkie]

I just did a full week of readings for the nurse, twice a day, all were 12_ over 8_ , so pretty good for me, except for one that was up at 156/92, after my Mrs had been taking about getting a dog! Over my dead body I said! She said, yes it will be.

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But just think of the extra exercise youll get walking your wife's dog, and the work out picking up the poop! So when is it arriving?

 

[Robotstar5]

A pulse oximeter. It reads the SpO2, the amount of oxygen saturation in your blood - 95% in the case above which is OK. It also shows pulse. It's really just an indicator of lung function, unless the figure is very low 80 or lower, in which case it shows anaemia. But you'd probably already be under medical care by then.

I've got one to keep an eye on my lungs which are knackered due to a bout of Pneumonia and COPD, pulse is a bit high as I just ran downstairs to get new batteries

When I had a collapsed lung my SpO2 dropped into the mid 80's and once they'ed re-inflated it they wouldn't let me out until I got to 94%