Blood Pressure...

[marine1]

nah its normal

wow

 

[Seriously]

My old GP told me last week , Tareg has a built in Diuretic which is actually not good as I had kidney stones

Better to eat watermelon?

 

[Pitbull]

160/89 Normal?

 

[marine1]

160/89 Normal?

PRE HYPERTENSION - high

 

[Pitbull]

PRE HYPERTENSION - high

Great, not there yet. Thanks Marine.

I bought the machine to monitor my wife's blood pressure because of her headaches. Mine is higher than hers

 

[The_Librarian]

160/89 Normal?

Rather go to a doctor.

 

[Sinbad]

Should be sorting mine out tomorrow.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602471/

 

[biometrics]

160/89 Normal?

160 is high, get to a doctor sooner rather than later.

How old are you?

 

[Pitbull]

160 is high, get to a doctor sooner rather than later.

How old are you?

37

 

[marine1]

160 is high, get to a doctor sooner rather than later.

How old are you?

Yup and remember its the 89 thats a problem, go and see a doctor dont play games with BP

 

[Kloofvreter]

I really wonder how accurate the iCare app is,. 113/76 sounds pretty close to perfect to me.

 

[lived666]

URGHHH
So it looks like running is a non medication unnatural way for me to drop BP.
After very low BP on Saturday after the 5km Park run/walk of mine, BP stayed low Sunday, Monday afternoon started creeping up so took meds around 5:00pm when it was around 140/86 and then today just came back from a 4km run/walk and other stuff at the gym, BP 107/70 afterwards and currently around 118/80 - normal BP so too low for meds, will check before bed time.

 

[biometrics]

37

I know of other people in their 30's that are on high BP meds, so it's not unusual, more typical from 40+ though.

 

[biometrics]

Zartan 100 wasn't working for me anymore, was stuck at 140/90.

Doc switched me to Exforge 5/160 (amlodipine and valsartan) which is double the price.

Anyone else on Exforge?

 

[marine1]

I am looking at changing from Tareg, getting terrible brain fog and can only think its this medication

 

[biometrics]

I am looking at changing from Tareg, getting terrible brain fog and can only think its this medication

I do hope the new meds doesn't have side effects like Zartan had, took six months for my body to normalise (runny tummy).

Starting in the morning. Will start checking my BP a week later.

 

[Sinbad]

140/77 this morning, no meds

 

[biometrics]

140/77 this morning, no meds

From your 40's the systolic is more important so it's at the edge of being too high. My doc will allow up to 140 max.

 

[Sinbad]

From your 40's the systolic is more important so it's at the edge of being too high. My doc will allow up to 140 max.

Compared to 160/100 a couple weeks ago...

 

[biometrics]

Compared to 160/100 a couple weeks ago...

How did you manage it?