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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1619812" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>In some ways getting the home BP monitor is helping already. It has clarified to me that the reading taken in the doctor's office is awfully unreliable, because it violates most of the advice given for an accurate BP reading. So, I think I now understand why my doctor has never said anything about it. Presumably he would act only if the reading were extremely high, or extremely low. It is also interesting that in his chart, he rounded the numbers to the nearest 10 -- or maybe he rounded them down!</p><p></p><p>I can distinctly remember during the August consultation (the first one where we discussed how I had "reversed" the T2D) that when the doctor did a quick physical examination, he muttered "good!" when he had just finished taking my blood pressure (130/80).</p><p></p><p>My 92-year-old father-in-law has both hypertension and hypotension (both high and low blood pressure) and takes meds (I don't know which). When he has the BG "hypos" he gets all woozy and faint. I must admit, however, to wondering sometimes whether the "hypo"-tension might not be partially aggravated by the meds. (Edited to add: His meds, for BP and other conditions, fill an entire bathroom cabinet.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1619812, member: 438800"] In some ways getting the home BP monitor is helping already. It has clarified to me that the reading taken in the doctor's office is awfully unreliable, because it violates most of the advice given for an accurate BP reading. So, I think I now understand why my doctor has never said anything about it. Presumably he would act only if the reading were extremely high, or extremely low. It is also interesting that in his chart, he rounded the numbers to the nearest 10 -- or maybe he rounded them down! I can distinctly remember during the August consultation (the first one where we discussed how I had "reversed" the T2D) that when the doctor did a quick physical examination, he muttered "good!" when he had just finished taking my blood pressure (130/80). My 92-year-old father-in-law has both hypertension and hypotension (both high and low blood pressure) and takes meds (I don't know which). When he has the BG "hypos" he gets all woozy and faint. I must admit, however, to wondering sometimes whether the "hypo"-tension might not be partially aggravated by the meds. (Edited to add: His meds, for BP and other conditions, fill an entire bathroom cabinet.) [/QUOTE]
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