Info on blood pressure please

loobyloose

Hi,

Why is it when something is wrong doctors always say its your weight and prattle on about ' you must lose weight ' malarky! god sake.
Im on the big side and i suffer from low blood pressure! but it didn't stop the doctor keep whipping out the blood pressure thingy to see if its gone up and then say ' oh you better lose weight', unlike wot my frined is getting at the moment from her docs.

another case i kept bleeding so much i would get breathless walking a few yards, I walk a lot usually! told the doctor he said its your weight, lose weight. Ive since found out from another doctor that i'm low on iron, so now i take them tabs and i have no breathlessness. amazing that.

On the extreme my dad suffers from high blood pressure, but swears when he takes viagra it lowers it lol

But if it is generally high because of them reasons dont stress about it, worrying can do more harm than good.
good luck

elona

I got the "It is your weight " coupled with "It is your age" any time I mentioned health problems to doctor - eventually saw new female doctor who did another blood test and I am hypothyroid - took a year to get tablet dosage right but I am now feeling a lot more human!

Trouble is when you feel ill and tired you do not have the energy to insist that there is something wrong - you just crawl away feeling useless.

Savvy_Sue

Can't stomach the Green Tea but have discovered that Rooibos or Redbush Tea is nearly as good. And there is a freebie offer link from here.

Ted_Hutchinson

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Can't stomach the Green Tea but have discovered that Rooibos or Redbush Tea is nearly as good. And there is a freebie offer link from here.

Have you tried the green/brown tea blends. Both Typhoo and Brookbond do them and they are a halfway house to get you used to the idea. Tesco's are now doing their own Green teabags. Bought some today but haven't tried them yet. I use Clipper leaf green tea and Lidl's bags. Haven't tried the redbush yet but will do.
It's got less caffiene in than the green so should give it a go.

Savvy_Sue

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

Have you tried the green/brown tea blends. Both Typhoo and Brookbond do them and they are a halfway house to get you used to the idea. Tesco's are now doing their own Green teabags. Bought some today but haven't tried them yet. I use Clipper leaf green tea and Lidl's bags. Haven't tried the redbush yet but will do.
It's got less caffiene in than the green so should give it a go.

No, have only tried a Jasmine Green Tea we had in the cupboard. Maybe it would taste better with milk in it? That's how I've always drunk my redbush, introduced to it by a friend who'd found it in S Africa. Can't remember if that's how Mma Ramotswe drinks it! Hadn't registered what it was when I read the books, but I think someone's doing some very good marketing on the back of them!

TBH our Tea Cupboard is so full of different smelly bags I think we need to drink our way through a few of those before we invest in any more! I go in phases, and now some of the tastier ones are off my list of good teas to drink. :doh:Mind you my BP is now so low in the afternoons I feel very woozy, but then it could just be I'm having a woozy week rather than the tablets affecting my BP, who knows, off to the quack again tomorrow!

Ted_Hutchinson

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Can't remember if that's how Mma Ramotswe drinks it! Hadn't registered what it was when I read the books, but I think someone's doing some very good marketing on the back of them!

Yes I've read all of those and after a bit you think there may be something to it. Must give it a try.

System

If you buy a home BP taking thingy be warned, they are not all acurate. I read this after buying mine to monitor my bp at home. Luckily when i took it to the surgery for the doctor to compare readings, he found mine was quite accurate but generally, he said they are normally not as acurate as the doctors own.

Savvy_Sue

Judi wrote:

If you buy a home BP taking thingy be warned, they are not all acurate. I read this after buying mine to monitor my bp at home. Luckily when i took it to the surgery for the doctor to compare readings, he found mine was quite accurate but generally, he said they are normally not as acurate as the doctors own.

Thanks, I know you need to have them recalibrated every couple of years. Mine is one of the ones recommended by the Blood Pressure Association so I'm hoping it's OK! The readings are fairly consistent, BP has definitely gone down significantly since I started taking the tablets, and always significantly lower in the afternoon. But I will take it into surgery to compare if GP doesn't believe my figures!

Mind you the way my readings have bounced around at the surgery and on the same machine it's hard to know what's what. The nurse at the surgery says the electronic machines they use are 100% accurate, but the nurse at the hospital says they don't use them because they can give false readings. My GP says "there is no room for interpretation" with the electronic machines. But he definitely doesn't tighten the cuff as much as the nurse does, which is why it doesn't hurt so much when he does it!

Will report back tomorrow ...

elona

Savvy

Surely if they tighten the cuff then it causes pain which raises your blood pressure?

Savvy_Sue

elona wrote:

Surely if they tighten the cuff then it causes pain which raises your blood pressure?

You'd have thought so, wouldn't you? But you don't like to start arguing with people, because that also puts up your BP! Although if I ever have one particular nurse again I think I shall argue with her, because it is excruciating when she does it!

Much better this morning, still higher at the GP's than it usually is at home, which is normal, but within acceptable limits. GP is going to talk to the hospital to find out how much longer I'll have to wait: he doesn't want to change my medication, and I don't particularly want him to change it, in case my BP shoots up! But I am feeling quite woozy in the afternoons. I can cope with that short term, but I don't fancy it dragging on for months!