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iainf1

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Have my first review tomorrow and will get flu and probably pneumo jab as well. When is this likely to happen - beginning, middle or end of appointment or does it matter? Will timing affect blood pressure I.e. a bit worried about jabs pushing up blood pressure.
 
Why not ask to have your BP done first, and explain?

Our practice nurse always starts off with BP and finishes with jabs, but I don't think it's a rule. :)

Viv 8)
 
In the end the nurse gave me both flu and pneumo jabs at the end of the consultation, but she said she should have done them at the beginning, to avoid me sitting in the waiting room for five to ten minutes. Next review is in six months and hopefully six months after that, when it will be time for next year's flu jab, so I'll ask for it at the beginning if it is not offered.
 
AMBrennan said:
Fair enough, though I'd rather sit in the waiting room for an extra 10 min than get an erroneously high BP.
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Yes ,so would I. Its the bane of my life. Because noone in my pratice appears o know much about diabetes they are constantly fussing about my BP which is only high when I see hem. Wonder why?

I have had a bp monitor since diagnosis and I am happy to accept that they may be up to ten points out although I dont hink so. I have two monitors -different makes and test them against each other. I was give ramipril as a precaution when I first developed re.
inopathy. I passed out 3 times in the first week although I took the tablets late at night as instructed. I didnt even make i o my bedroom. When I changed pracices there was another big to-do as they messed me about so much my BP was sky high whenever I went near hem.
I have frequent ,stressful procedures at the hospital which dont do his to my bp levels.

They insisted on incresasing the dosage and this ime my bp which normally goes up and down quite a bit sayed static at 110/60 for two days I also suffered a large bleed in my left eye which is still being eated some 3 years later.

I know very well that however much medication I take my BP will always be high when I go into the surgery. I have even taken my monitor in to show to the gp who was quite happy to accept it - but not so the diabetic nurse!

The manufacturers say that the monitors should be re-calibrated every 2 years. The nurse insists it should be done every 6 months, I think that 2 monitors of diffferent makes constantly checked against each other should be a good indicator. I take my BP at home just before i leave the house and it is practically the same reading as that at the surgery. then when I get home it has fallen by about 60 points. I find nmy diabetes nurse a health hazard!

I have no objection to taking medication if bnecessary but any change is quite likely to afffect me adversely and I don't want to keep upping my medication unnecessarily just to make he nurse feel she is doing something.
How accurate are these ambulatory monitors ? Can anything afffect the results to give a false picture? I have to live up to my username!
 
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