I have a normal BP machine at home and submitted twice daily readings over a week last month so my GP has some data to work on. I suffer badly with ‘white coat syndrome’, so my GP is happy to go by my home readings normally. It’s an idea to bear in mind though thank you.Give your surgery a ring to see if they will lend your a 24hr BP monitor before the review - more data the bettter......
I had a funny reading once and gp received a letter but on 2 other readings I was in range. Good job they need a few readings before meds are changed.Interesting links, @NoCrbs4Me As I said earlier, no-one knows what our blood pressure should be as long as we are all given tablets at some point. It also seems no-one is measuring it correctly.
Have you read dr bernsteins book? He mentions this dizziness and advises getting up very slowly and very common for diabetics.Thanks for your reply and your concern. My next review is soon, just nine days away. I’m being very cautious getting up so I’m prepared for the dizziness at the moment. I guess if I came off all BP meds my BP would go back up so that’s why I’d be happy to go back to just Ramipril, that was the first BP med I was put on. I’ll see what GP thinks is best.
No I haven’t, I should do that I guess. Thanks for the suggestion.@Rachox when you experience this dizzyness on getting up, do you take your blood pressure at the time?
I had a spate of that, and still do sometimes, but it isn't a BP issue, it is postural vertigo as diagnosed by my GP.
Wow, fascinating stuff. I didn't study statistics at school unfortunately, but these underpin my strong belief that selective use of statistics can prove whatever you want.Dr. Malcolm Kendrick has some interesting opinions on blood pressure that are worth a read:
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2013/09/09/what-is-your-blood-pressure-bp/
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2012/04/02/does-treating-high-blood-pressure-do-any-good/
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/tag/healthy-blood-pressure/
hi there BarryThanks for the comments.
I'm still very sceptical. One recommended limit for diabetics regardless of age. Hmm.
Revisiting stats from studies intended for other purposes and drawing conclusions seems a dubious methodology to me.
I'm 66 and whilst that is still young by today's standards, there seems to be this obsessive drive to extend life regardless of quality. I'm extremely likely to decline the meds I reckon.
The Mayo clinic lists ways to control high blood pressure here:- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases...n-depth/high-blood-pressure/art-20046974?pg=1Thanks for that positive reply @himtoo. It's good to hear something positive, after all lots of us, well me anyway, feel rather hard done by one bitter and given anything to moan about we/I will.
You are clearly very fortunate with a BP like that based on the current propaganda. I was going to say, you can't go very wrong with low BP, but I'm not sure that's what those paper linked to above say. Not that it'll hurt, just no evidence of any benefit.
I'm still of a mind to take my chances. What's to lose? Rhetorical question obviously.
On a different point, I am always in awe of folk who've had this awful disease from such a young age. It really isn't fair. I got 1.5 at 60, cancer too within a few weeks, and the cancer never bothers me. There's little I can do about it so what will be will be, but diabetes..... Managing that is a whole frustrating can of worms. Drives me nuts, depressed, angry, bitter.......
For info, a low BP is just as bad as a high one as you can faint/collapse. My wife's BP is low and she gets annoyed that the NHS only worries about it being too high.Thanks for that positive reply @himtoo. It's good to hear something positive, after all lots of us, well me anyway, feel rather hard done by one bitter and given anything to moan about we/I will.
You are clearly very fortunate with a BP like that based on the current propaganda. I was going to say, you can't go very wrong with low BP, but I'm not sure that's what those paper linked to above say. Not that it'll hurt, just no evidence of any benefit.
I'm still of a mind to take my chances. What's to lose? Rhetorical question obviously.
On a different point, I am always in awe of folk who've had this awful disease from such a young age. It really isn't fair. I got 1.5 at 60, cancer too within a few weeks, and the cancer never bothers me. There's little I can do about it so what will be will be, but diabetes..... Managing that is a whole frustrating can of worms. Drives me nuts, depressed, angry, bitter.......
I think what I was / am trying to say is that without those drugs , the likelihood of me being here and somewat complication free ( got some eye issues ) would be a lot lower.Thanks for that positive reply @himtoo. It's good to hear something positive, after all lots of us, well me anyway, feel rather hard done by one bitter and given anything to moan about we/I will.
You are clearly very fortunate with a BP like that based on the current propaganda. I was going to say, you can't go very wrong with low BP, but I'm not sure that's what those paper linked to above say. Not that it'll hurt, just no evidence of any benefit.
I'm still of a mind to take my chances. What's to lose? Rhetorical question obviously.
On a different point, I am always in awe of folk who've had this awful disease from such a young age. It really isn't fair. I got 1.5 at 60, cancer too within a few weeks, and the cancer never bothers me. There's little I can do about it so what will be will be, but diabetes..... Managing that is a whole frustrating can of worms. Drives me nuts, depressed, angry, bitter.......
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Although you are probably already following a number of them, your last post does suggest that maybe addressing number 8 (stress) might be helpful? There are a lot of online resources for this which can be found by googling, e.g. https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/stress.htm
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