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Blood pressure.

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Have had high blood pressure all my adult life, an inherited problem. I have never been overweight except for the six months prior to diagnosis, due in part to extreme stress following my husband's death in a road accident and expressing my grief by overeating, followed by a heart attack. Since my diabetic diagnosis in 2003 it has been trial and error to get a regime of medication that stabalizes it. Over the course of the last six years have tried numerous combinations of pills to no avail. For the last three months have tried four different permutations and today at my G.P.'s had it taken and it was 120/78. It has been the same for the last three weeks and he thinks we have found the magic combination. Considering it has sometimes been as high as 237/139 I am so happy.
It seems to have been harder to sort out the blood pressure than it has the diabetes.
This to me is a success story and I thought I would share it with you. :D :D
Catherine.
 
Excellent stuff Catherine!
Your low GI diet will certainly have helped. High insulin levels caused by carbohydrates seem to cause the kidneys to retain salt, which leads to water retention and therefore increased blood pressure. Sound like you've cracked it.

fergus
 
Well done to you Catherine
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Thats brilliant news, I must be lucky as mine came down with the Gi diet and exercise.

Keep it up (or down as the case maybe)
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