Blood Pressure...

The Voice said:
On the topic of ambulances, I get taken in every now and then if I can’t get there myself. I always tell them I feel really bad because there are people who need it more than I do. They just reassure me that because of my history I shouldn’t think about it like that.
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i hate them because of the attention they draw.
i'm much happier if it arrives in silence, loads me up, then slips away quietly into the velvety night.
 
Grant said:
i hate them because of the attention they draw.
i'm much happier if it arrives in silence, loads me up, then slips away quietly into the velvety night.
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Benefit is with an ambulance I go straight to Majors. If I take myself I spend 8+ hours in the packed waiting area. Sure, I get seen first if it’s my heart, but they’ll do ECG and trop and then send me back out to wait until the second round of tests. Majors I at least get hooked up to something (on a bed if I’m lucky) and monitored away from the crowds while they’re doing their tests. I’m already stressed the **** out: being in a room packed with people all with varying ailments isn’t great.

As for silence, I’ve only been blue-lighted once when I had my MIs and had to be transferred to a hospital that did angioplasties.
 
The Voice said:
Benefit is with an ambulance I go straight to Majors. If I take myself I spend 8+ hours in the packed waiting area. Sure, I get seen first if it’s my heart, but they’ll do ECG and trop and then send me back out to wait until the second round of tests. Majors I at least get hooked up to something (on a bed if I’m lucky) and monitored away from the crowds while they’re doing their tests. I’m already stressed the **** out: being in a room packed with people all with varying ailments isn’t great.

As for silence, I’ve only been blue-lighted once when I had my MIs and had to be transferred to a hospital that did angioplasties.
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emergency rooms seem luck of the draw here.
if you are not on medical aid and you have an emergency admission by ambulance, you are taken straight in as a priority - i'm not sure about the rest of the country, but certainly w/c.

if private, you are at the mercy of a private practice running the emergency dept.
triage protocols should apply, but seldom do.
my mother is a case in point : chris barnard hospital in cape town.
her gp call for an ambulance.
ambulance arrives & while the paramedics are busy prepping her to load and go, she calls the emergency dept to give them a heads-up of the incoming patient - supplies vitals etc, and stresses patient is in tachycardia and very unstable.
we arrive at the hospital (i'm in the ambulance), and we find the doors to the emergency dept for ambulance arrivals are locked (2pm - nobody in sight).
much banging on the door and a "nurse" comes waddling along to unlock.

so we used an er24 ambulance (mediclinic group), and are now at a netcare facility.
the magnitude of incompetence of this woman (i referred to her as a bedpan carrier in various documents), was so blinding that the mediclinic paramedics remained with my mother (in a netcare facility) for a further 45 minutes after arrival.
after 2hrs the doctor eventually comes over for examination.
45 mins later she goes into cardiac arrest - and is dead.

so yea, certainly in sa it is luck of the draw.
private healthcare needs a serious legal overhaul in this country.
 
Grant said:
emergency rooms seem luck of the draw here.
if you are not on medical aid and you have an emergency admission by ambulance, you are taken straight in as a priority - i'm not sure about the rest of the country, but certainly w/c.

if private, you are at the mercy of a private practice running the emergency dept.
triage protocols should apply, but seldom do.
my mother is a case in point : chris barnard hospital in cape town.
her gp call for an ambulance.
ambulance arrives & while the paramedics are busy prepping her to load and go, she calls the emergency dept to give them a heads-up of the incoming patient - supplies vitals etc, and stresses patient is in tachycardia and very unstable.
we arrive at the hospital (i'm in the ambulance), and we find the doors to the emergency dept for ambulance arrivals are locked (2pm - nobody in sight).
much banging on the door and a "nurse" comes waddling along to unlock.

so we used an er24 ambulance (mediclinic group), and are now at a netcare facility.
the magnitude of incompetence of this woman (i referred to her as a bedpan carrier in various documents), was so blinding that the mediclinic paramedics remained with my mother (in a netcare facility) for a further 45 minutes after arrival.
after 2hrs the doctor eventually comes over for examination.
45 mins later she goes into cardiac arrest - and is dead.

so yea, certainly in sa it is luck of the draw.
private healthcare needs a serious legal overhaul in this country.
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Wow that is absolutely shocking!

My mom went to the ED at Bedford Clinic on Christmas Eve in 2017 - no idea what they checked, just that they turned her away because she didn’t have medical aid anymore, so wouldn’t do scans, etc, unless she put up R50k up front. I begged her to go to any hospital (I was in the UK) immediately because hospitals may be short staffed because of Christmas. She said she’d go after Boxing Day. Christmas Day, I get a frantic call from my brother saying he thinks our mom is dead. He struggled to get her limp body into the car, but eventually did with the help of a petrol jockey from across the road. Took her back to Bedford Clinic, where she was pronounced dead. Had a massive heart attack, and it was over quickly, thankfully.

UK private is weird: you can go to them for some of the best treatment in the world. Any surgery, and they’ll take care of you to the highest standard. Amazing wards and staff, etc. However, should anything go wrong at any time and you need emergency treatment, they have to wheel you off to the nearest public hospital because they simply don’t have the facilities to help you.
 
Got put on to blood pressure meds about 2 months back, my blood pressure was 136 over 90, will need to check it again. Apparently the doctor wants me to go for a myriad of blood tests, which I should do but man it's been a busy couple of months :-(
 
Lupus said:
Got put on to blood pressure meds about 2 months back, my blood pressure was 136 over 90, will need to check it again. Apparently the doctor wants me to go for a myriad of blood tests, which I should do but man it's been a busy couple of months :-(
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Don't put it off. Your health is really all you have.
 
Why is it that they say that once you are on blood pressure meds you cannot stop it even if your blood pressure
"is back to normal" without the meds?
 
dualmeister said:
Why is it that they say that once you are on blood pressure meds you cannot stop it even if your blood pressure
"is back to normal" without the meds?
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Who is "they"?

I hope to reduce my bp meds soon.
 
dualmeister said:
Why is it that they say that once you are on blood pressure meds you cannot stop it even if your blood pressure
"is back to normal" without the meds?
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If you have the BP back to normal and you're not on meds that's good. Otherwise taking it will drop the BP too low and too low is just as bad.
My MIL had to stop her meds cause her BP was dropping too low, once off the meds stabilised.
 
dualmeister said:
Why is it that they say that once you are on blood pressure meds you cannot stop it even if your blood pressure
"is back to normal" without the meds?
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You’re asking why people in the pocket of Big Pharma tell you that you shouldn’t stop taking your meds if when they’re no longer necessary?
 
Blood pressure 128/80, cholesterol fine, liver fine, prostate fine, thyroid fine everything else checks out.
 
go to the nurse for discovery mumbo jumbo = +150/100 tells me that's bad, does it 3 times with their little machine, I say no way.

I go home and check it on my fancy expensive machine = 120/83

ummmm
 
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