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<blockquote data-quote="AllieRainbow" data-source="post: 1848142" data-attributes="member: 473025"><p>Feeling really full of cold today. Over the last few weeks I have been low in energy, and eating too much after the BP meds fiasco, where I reacted badly to Ramipril. I was just starting to get over that, when I was put on Losartan by my doctor. This had worse side effects than the Ramipril. After only one tablet I felt extremely fatigued. After the next dose a day later I was dragging myself around, feeling like my whole body was made of lead. I made the decision to stop taking them, and deal with the blood pressure through exercise.</p><p></p><p>A couple of days later, having missed two doses, I feel much better energy-wise, even with a cold. I did more exercise yesterday than I have done for weeks, and finally got back into the mid 5s, for the first time since the Ramipril fiasco.</p><p></p><p>I tracked my blood sugar during that period, and it is higher than normal for me - probably die to eating too much due to extremely low energy, and also because I was unable to do more than a token amount of exercise. Interestingly you can actually see when I started the BP medication as the blood sugar readings went up and stayed up. Before the meds I was consistently in the 5s most of the time. After, mainly high 6s and 7s.</p><p></p><p>I am not suggesting people should not take BP medication, but my BP was not really high - it was in the 140s, and the medication had such a dreadful effect on me I am reluctant to go that route when I had already lowered it quite a lot using exercise before the medication started.</p><p></p><p>At some point I will go back to fasting, but at the moment I am concentrating on keeping the carbs low - 10-20g per day, and making sure fluid intake is good and the exercise targets are met.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllieRainbow, post: 1848142, member: 473025"] Feeling really full of cold today. Over the last few weeks I have been low in energy, and eating too much after the BP meds fiasco, where I reacted badly to Ramipril. I was just starting to get over that, when I was put on Losartan by my doctor. This had worse side effects than the Ramipril. After only one tablet I felt extremely fatigued. After the next dose a day later I was dragging myself around, feeling like my whole body was made of lead. I made the decision to stop taking them, and deal with the blood pressure through exercise. A couple of days later, having missed two doses, I feel much better energy-wise, even with a cold. I did more exercise yesterday than I have done for weeks, and finally got back into the mid 5s, for the first time since the Ramipril fiasco. I tracked my blood sugar during that period, and it is higher than normal for me - probably die to eating too much due to extremely low energy, and also because I was unable to do more than a token amount of exercise. Interestingly you can actually see when I started the BP medication as the blood sugar readings went up and stayed up. Before the meds I was consistently in the 5s most of the time. After, mainly high 6s and 7s. I am not suggesting people should not take BP medication, but my BP was not really high - it was in the 140s, and the medication had such a dreadful effect on me I am reluctant to go that route when I had already lowered it quite a lot using exercise before the medication started. At some point I will go back to fasting, but at the moment I am concentrating on keeping the carbs low - 10-20g per day, and making sure fluid intake is good and the exercise targets are met. [/QUOTE]
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