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High blood pressure due to diabetes

Alexandra100 said:
I suggest being reassured by the results of your 24 hour test and trying to relax and forget about your bp for the time being. I daresay it goes up from time to time due to your understandable anxiety, but clearly the picture overall is good. GPs do worry about bp, so if your GP says yours is fine, I would accept that. You have enough to focus on in, as you say, learning about blood glucose and low carb, and in doing that you can make a real difference to your health and future. A low carb diet often brings bp down. In my case, I have always had rather low bp. After lowering my carbs a lot, I was worried about my much increased salt intake. I thought it might have raised my bp, but no such thing. My bp is if anything lower than before.

Please don't feel ashamed that you ate high carb for many years. So did I and many other people. We were advised to do so, and we were certainly not advised to eat low carb high fat! It's great that you are enjoying learning about all this, and that you are making such an effort. Good luck!
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Thankyou so much Alexandra, you and everyone so far has reassured me.

I just don’t know what else to say, other than thankyou for all your support.

It’s funny how we are all essentially strangers but it’s so nice to read and be given so much support and advice on here. We all have one thing in common and it is to strive to control something that so many people suffer from. I am so glad I discovered this site as there are so far such a bunch of friendly and informative people.

Perfumeflower53 x
 
Perfumeflower53 said:
Thankyou so much Alexandra, you and everyone so far has reassured me.

I just don’t know what else to say, other than thankyou for all your support.

It’s funny how we are all essentially strangers but it’s so nice to read and be given so much support and advice on here. We all have one thing in common and it is to strive to control something that so many people suffer from. I am so glad I discovered this site as there are so far such a bunch of friendly and informative people.

Perfumeflower53 x
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I agree wholeheartedly. I luckily stumbled on this forum the night I was diagnosed. I received so much help and advice and so quickly too. I certainly wouldn’t be where I am now. I didn’t realise how poorly I was feeling til I started to feel better. My Diabetes was diagnosed on a routine blood test for my BP, I had no idea what was wrong when I had a msg to male an urgent appt with the Dr! I’m now trying to pay back.
 
Perfumeflower53 said:
Hi DCUK,

Oh now this is interesting, I think I may of heard something about this before.

I just bought one of those cheap run of the mill wrist monitors from amazon lol but not quite sure how accurate it is to be honest. You could be right there.

Might have to invest a bit more money in one of those arm cuff ones. No harm giving it a try, it’s all trial and error.. thankyou DCUK


Perfumeflower53 x
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Theoretically, the farther from the body you measure bp, the less accurate. HOWEVER I have both a cuff and a wrist monitor and I have compared measurements on the two and found them pretty much identical. IMO the best bp monitor is the one you use. They have to be strapped on next to the skin, and for me especially in winter the effort of baring my arm for the cuff is really off-putting, whereas the wrist one is no trouble at all. You could take your monitor with you next time you see your GP and ask him/her to let you compare readings with her cuff.

Don't forget that it's important to sit quietly for a few minutes before taking a reading, not to talk or do anything while the reading is taking place, not to take a repeat reading on the same wrist too soon as the squashing can affect it (I alternate readings on my two wrists). I follow the instructions to take and write down altogether 4 sets of readings, L+R 8 in all, discard the first L+R and average the rest. In this way you can get a figure that is superior to any your GP will produce, as in my experience they always make me talk during the reading, and of course they only have time for one on one arm
 
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