Jenny15
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- Messages
- 770
- Location
- New Zealand
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Other
- Dislikes
- Jazz music, science denial, and running out of coffee.
I never doubted that your BP was very high in 2010. I'm interested to hear what side effects you had. Obviously they were a large part of why you were keen to discontinue the drugs.Trust me, in 2010 it was serious stuff, still have my records from then, too! Can see how many weeks it took to get my BP down into acceptable range, have records of all the medications, when they were introduced, how effective they were, what the side effects were, etc etc. So glad that I managed to get it controlled by natural means, eventually, and got weaned off the medications.
And anxiety does have big impacts on my BP, and I’m probably not alone, and because I test it and record it so regularly, I can see the patterns.
Some guidelines just get tighter and tighter under the influence of pharmaceutical companies, in my honest opinion, who are in the business of generating profits, not the wellbeing of people. A patient cured is a customer lost.
Should a 70 year old really have the same BP as a 20 year old, do you think? I think probably not. But we’ll probably have to agree to differ.
I've been extremely lucky in that my first line ACE inhibitor drug was effective and side effect free, as far as I know. I often joke about it being the only one of my regular meds that doesn't cause any particular worries. I wish the others were like that. (Almost every other disorder I have has involved a long tortuous stressful journey of finding the least worst treatments, with mixed success.)
I've been on my BP drug for 10 years. Even when my BMI was down to the mid 20s, with an A1c of 32 I found I couldn't go off it. We must just have different bodies with different issues.
As far as I know, BP target ranges are meant to take age and other factors into account. The main guidelines I'm familiar with (NZ) take BP and about 5 other factors into account with a scoring system. It has the effect that if a 70 year old is otherwise low risk for cardiovascular events, he or she wouldn't need to reduce BP at the same threshold as someone who scored much higher. It's all figured out on a case by case basis by the doctor at the time. The guidelines are only a framework for their clinical expertise.
I had high BP for a few years before my BG went over 42 then 48. When it was just high BP the doctors were not too concerned. But adding diabetes increased the risk.