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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2016815" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi there, my blood pressure has always been around the same (all the way through 3 pregnancies) and I am now 58. I went privately for an ambulatory test where they attach a BP monitor to you 24/7 which takes your blood pressure every 30 minutes. Apart from not getting a wink of sleep (!), it actually showed that for the majority of the time it was perfectly normal and went quite low during the night. Have you had this done at all? If not for that I am sure someone may have decided on medication and if they had have done, I would have been worse off with low BP. As for my diet, I have always followed a (supposedly) healthy diet of veg/fruit/wholemeal etc without the rubbish carbs (sweets/pies/pastry etc) and only changed that on diagnosis to lower carb (not low carb). I do not think that BP in general is much to do with diet as such anyway. It has never been higher, just constant. They said to me 'We like a diabetic's to be less than 120/80 at all times', well I cannot achieve that without medication and as far as I am concerned that is just normal for me.(I do try and compensate for it though by being good, no smoking, no drinking, 5 mile a day run, active job, eat no rubbish).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2016815, member: 451727"] Hi there, my blood pressure has always been around the same (all the way through 3 pregnancies) and I am now 58. I went privately for an ambulatory test where they attach a BP monitor to you 24/7 which takes your blood pressure every 30 minutes. Apart from not getting a wink of sleep (!), it actually showed that for the majority of the time it was perfectly normal and went quite low during the night. Have you had this done at all? If not for that I am sure someone may have decided on medication and if they had have done, I would have been worse off with low BP. As for my diet, I have always followed a (supposedly) healthy diet of veg/fruit/wholemeal etc without the rubbish carbs (sweets/pies/pastry etc) and only changed that on diagnosis to lower carb (not low carb). I do not think that BP in general is much to do with diet as such anyway. It has never been higher, just constant. They said to me 'We like a diabetic's to be less than 120/80 at all times', well I cannot achieve that without medication and as far as I am concerned that is just normal for me.(I do try and compensate for it though by being good, no smoking, no drinking, 5 mile a day run, active job, eat no rubbish). [/QUOTE]
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