trvlgrl64
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4 posts since February 25th, 2010
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/ High Blood Pressure and Hypertension on 02-26-2010 23:45pm
I don't know how any of you went through this and came out the other side. All week my BP has been going from 115/70 (at a low) to 177/113 (at the high). Twice this week I have gone to the ER (3 times if you count the twice in one day) to check my BP. The first time they gave me clonidine, guess it worked but not as quickly as it usually does. ... more
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/ High Blood Pressure and Hypertension on 02-26-2010 10:06am
Last night I took my first Cardizem 125 mg. Soon afterwards I began feeling like my throat was tight. I was able to eat and drink - no problems with actually breathing. Just this strange sense of tightness in my throat. Could that be just nerves on taking a first time heart med? Or is it likely that I have some allergy or something?
Trying to... more
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/ High Blood Pressure and Hypertension on 02-25-2010 19:39pm
Thanks - one thing I should have noted. I eat almost no sodium, no fast food and very little frozen/canned food. At night I eat a hot wheat cereal that I put cranberries, blueberries, almonds into it. So, if anything my diet should help the HBP. Not sure that there is much I can do naturally.
Tonight I start on cardizem, I'm nervous about tha... more
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/ High Blood Pressure and Hypertension on 02-25-2010 18:23pm
Hi everyone,
This is all new to me - I'm 45 yrs old, in decent health, eat well (dont exercise as I should) but all in all should have pretty steady BP.
In the last few months, mainly in the evening, my BP has ranged around 148/98 or so. Started seeing a cardio but he didn't think we should medicate at this point as much of the day it was fine. ... more
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