Unmanageable hypertension

normally Drs use a step down approach. They treat you intensively to bring the pressure down then slow decrease and remove.

Be careful not to make random connections some drugs take days to start working. Though the change in diet is necessary and VERY important. The side-effects will go away with time as your body gets used to it or when your doctor brings down the dose once he/she has managed to bring down your pressure.

A common mistake is patients start taking care of themselves when they are diagnosed their lifestyle changes and they make a mistake of associating the changes to diet when in fact the drugs selected to treat the patient can take up to 50 hours to reach efficacy. A lot of patients then wonder "why am i spending so much money on these medicines when I ate this and that and my pressure went down" .... then they stop the meds and bam pressure shoots right back up and they back at square one.

Now im not saying dont do the juicing and stuff. Diet is probably the most important thing. What im saying is dont remove any of the drugs or change their doses on your own without your doctors consent. You wouldnt want to cause a CVA due to a huge spike.

you must understand what is known as RAAS (renein-angiotensin-aldosterone-system).
 
RiaX said:
normally Drs use a step down approach. They treat you intensively to bring the pressure down then slow decrease and remove.

Be careful not to make random connections some drugs take days to start working. Though the change in diet is necessary and VERY important. The side-effects will go away with time as your body gets used to it or when your doctor brings down the dose once he/she has managed to bring down your pressure.

A common mistake is patients start taking care of themselves when they are diagnosed their lifestyle changes and they make a mistake of associating the changes to diet when in fact the drugs selected to treat the patient can take up to 50 hours to reach efficacy. A lot of patients then wonder "why am i spending so much money on these medicines when I ate this and that and my pressure went down" .... then they stop the meds and bam pressure shoots right back up and they back at square one.

Now im not saying dont do the juicing and stuff. Diet is probably the most important thing. What im saying is dont remove any of the drugs or change their doses on your own without your doctors consent. You wouldnt want to cause a CVA due to a huge spike.

you must understand what is known as RAAS (renein-angiotensin-aldosterone-system).
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Do not worry,my juicing and diet adjustment is complementary to my regimen of medication I am taking...I have no intention of adjusting nor stopping my meds, till I have consulted my doctor. Look, for me it came to a point, that tests were being done, and the results were not bringing me any closer to a diagnosis....that is where I informed the cardiologist, thanks but no thanks to any more test...if we did not find anything by now, I guess we will never find anything...I am getting of this ride... Hence my change of track and looking at other avenues for recourse....in the long run all meds have a negative impact on the body, and I would rather not have them swimming around in my system, if there is a natural solution to my condition.
 
yebocan said:
Just a bit of an update: So after about three visits to the cardiologist and a litany of tests, still no answer to my unmanageable hypertension. All I was getting, was being booked for more tests and more tablets being prescribed. No one tells you of the crap side effects the meds have on you...anyways, got to the point, when I said enough....I am not going for another test, or adding another set of medication...this route is clearly not working....my bp might be becoming down, but i feel crap! Started looking at more natural approaches,...beetroot and celery juice,...well what the hell did I have to lose? Bought a juicer, and have merrily been juicing each morning...beetroot,celery,carrot and apple...with a dash of ginger....kid you not, after day one, I could already feel a difference....that low mood feeling and low grade headache that I had to endure, was gone...my bp has stabilised around 130/78...meds alone was only able to get it around 138/85,....will see my Doc in the new year and take it from there.....hopefully, by then, there is a real improvement and I can start getting off some of these crappy medicine;-)
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Try the reishi mushrooms I mentioned earler. My old mans BP was through the ROOF. All fine now and that's pretty much the only thing he's been taking (along with a better diet / beetroot etc)
 
I'm telling you, carbs and sugar are your worst nightmare. Many people are managing their hypertension related issues through a proper diet alone, and considering the science coming to the fore regarding LCHF, it makes sense to give it a shot...
 
Bit of an update:So with with all the meds floating around in my system, my bp has stabilised at 130/80..which for me is uber fantastic. The Juicing, has really helped getting some of my energy back, but I was feeling these meds, for all the good they doing, were sucking the life out of me. So much so....two weeks ago, things came to a head...I could not pee, had the urge and urgency, but just could not get a stream going....long story short, the beta blockers the cardiologist placed me on, caused benign prostatic hyperplasia -basically caused my prostate + bladder to balloon in volume...-i was so pissed, at no stage did she mention any such side effect...and then had the nerve to state, she would like me to remain on the crap, at reduce dosages, was on . With that, I said, thanks but no thanks, no ****ing hell am I getting back out that crap. Has been over 10 days off of the stuff, and my tiredness is gone, the sparkle in my eyes have returned, and god awful nightmares are becoming less and less. If my life is cut short by a couple of years, due to not taking medicine that kills my quality of life, so be it.
 
yebocan said:
Bit of an update:So with with all the meds floating around in my system, my bp has stabilised at 130/80..which for me is uber fantastic. The Juicing, has really helped getting some of my energy back, but I was feeling these meds, for all the good they doing, were sucking the life out of me. So much so....two weeks ago, things came to a head...I could not pee, had the urge and urgency, but just could not get a stream going....long story short, the beta blockers the cardiologist placed me on, caused benign prostatic hyperplasia -basically caused my prostate + bladder to balloon in volume...-i was so pissed, at no stage did she mention any such side effect...and then had the nerve to state, she would like me to remain on the crap, at reduce dosages, was on . With that, I said, thanks but no thanks, no ****ing hell am I getting back out that crap. Has been over 10 days off of the stuff, and my tiredness is gone, the sparkle in my eyes have returned, and god awful nightmares are becoming less and less. If my life is cut short by a couple of years, due to not taking medicine that kills my quality of life, so be it.
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Buy yourself a portable blood pressure machine , a decent one will set you back about R700 , monitor your own BP , good luck
 
So thought , an update would be in order:

So as from January, I cut out meat and chicken out of my diet....Breakfast has been replaced with a juice,-usually consisting of celery, fennel, cucumber, carrot, kale and or spinach, lemon, ginger, beetroot and garlic...I add to the juice, some spirulina and wheat grass....Lunch is usually salad or some fruit....dinner is usually a fish with salad or some cooked veggies....I was sitting at 92kgs before change in diet, and I am around 84 now...my bp is now at around 124/75..Have not felt so good in a long while...-I have a check up coming up with doc, and hopefully can start looking at getting off the ACE inhibitor,calcium blocker and diuretic that I am still on....Lesson learned, take charge of you life/health...no one has a vested interest in you, but you!
 
yebocan said:
So thought , an update would be in order:

So as from January, I cut out meat and chicken out of my diet....Breakfast has been replaced with a juice,-usually consisting of celery, fennel, cucumber, carrot, kale and or spinach, lemon, ginger, beetroot and garlic...I add to the juice, some spirulina and wheat grass....Lunch is usually salad or some fruit....dinner is usually a fish with salad or some cooked veggies....I was sitting at 92kgs before change in diet, and I am around 84 now...my bp is now at around 124/75..Have not felt so good in a long while...-I have a check up coming up with doc, and hopefully can start looking at getting off the ACE inhibitor,calcium blocker and diuretic that I am still on....Lesson learned, take charge of you life/health...no one has a vested interest in you, but you!
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Excellent news! Good to hear!
 
Starting to pack a few baby tomatoes, carrots, mielies and peas as snack to nibble on at work.

This helps a lot with my hypertension. Found that my BP doesn't go that much up and down.

So people who have problems with their BP may also find it worthwhile to start eating more raw veggies - it will take a while to get used to.
 
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