Do the meds get to work fast to get the bp down..best of luck
Had mine today 144/96 need to wear a monitor for a day and then check back
This thread has ruined my evening. Now sat in the garden drinking a king goblin after roasting a pork loin rubbed with olive oil and salt . All the crackling is gone and most of the meat is left . Thought I would be ok because it was olive oil and sea salt. . Ah well at least it wasn't full of shit the takeaway puts in your food. Have to do a extra 10 mile on the bike tomorrow if I wake up :<I am type 2 diabetes - 65yo.
In my youth I could eat what I liked and drink too. I really gave my internal organs some work to do.
A few years ago I was diagnosed type 2.
The way I looked at it was this.
My diet was turning my blood into something akin to syrup. Turning my blood into this liquid meant that my heart was having to work harder to pump the gloop round my circulatory system, not good.
Trying to suss out which foods (and drink) were right for me took quite a while but I think I have got to grips with it, although I do eat unhealthy
food sometimes.
Sugar is bad for BP and salt is too, also making your blood gloopy.
Smoking makes things worse by narrowing your arteries, making your heart work even harder.
Consider this for a moment. When you go out for a pint (or whatever) what snacks are available?
Mostly they will be salty, crisps, pork scratchings etc. These snacks will cause you to be thirstier, meaning that you will drink more.
I am not trying to be sanctimonious or trying to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't consume, we're all adults after all, but having altered my diet I do feel that I am in significantly better shape in my 60s than I was a few years ago.
It's in your hands....
Just seen this thread but posted on another thread a couple of weeks ago.
I went to my new Doctors (the old one still not seeing anyone face to face, Covid excuse) on the 22nd Sept. I’ve had heart arrhythmia since 30 years old (64 now). The first check was BP, 204/88, second one 214/97. The nurse said I may be leaving in an ambulance. She did an ECG and downloaded by a modem to a heart specialist unit, after an eternal time a voice on the other end said “the heart is beating within normal parameters”. I was then given 2.5 mg ramapril to take along with my Atenelol for the arrhythmia. The nurse thinks I’ll end up on 10mg.
However, the nurse said she’d like me to stop drinking until my next appointment this Friday, I have followed her advice but did have a couple of Guinness after golf yesterday, that’ll be it now for a while, hoping the non drinking will help. The nurse said I was a stroke or heart attack waiting to happen, good job I retired last year.
Two of my friends both born within a couple of months of me are also being treated for high BP, it really is dangerous. I’m going to use some of the advice on this thread to see how much improvement I get.
Excellent..all about doing something about it before the shit hits the fanThey do.
A&E gave me some ramipril and expected bp to drop within hours to outside "dangerous". It dropped a bit but not much, just outside dangerous allowing for White Coat Syndrome.
GP prescribed other stuff, and then waited a month to see if it needed changing. A month later it was down in normal operating conditions.
Excellent..all about doing something about it before the shit hits the fan
Sorry for peeing on your bonfire mate.This thread has ruined my evening. Now sat in the garden drinking a king goblin after roasting a pork loin rubbed with olive oil and salt . All the crackling is gone and most of the meat is left . Thought I would be ok because it was olive oil and sea salt. . Ah well at least it wasn't full of shit the takeaway puts in your food. Have to do a extra 10 mile on the bike tomorrow if I wake up :<