Blood pressure problems Big time !!?
I couldn’t sleep last night. So I got up and took my blood pressure.
My doctor want’s me to record it at various times. I felt good.
Pressure 187/113. My wife thinks I woory too much about it and that makes it go higher. I understand it might but not that high.
She wants me to stop all my meds. and just pray the rosary. This will cure me. Ain’t going to do it. Now to the question I have a very stressful life, take pills for that too, would stress make it that high ? My dr. said there’s a good chance I will have a stroke pretty soon or if I’m lucky just a heart attack.
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~Don’t listen to her. Keep taking your medications and your blood pressure. Stress can cause your blood pressure to get higher.
If the medication you are taking for high blood pressure isn’t working, try a different one. In fact, go see a different doctor, this one sounds like a quack!
Why would a doctor predict a heart attack and do nothing?
Good luck.~
do both, pills for your health and pray so your wife will leave you alone about it
My advice would be to follow your Dr. orders..Do not stop taking your pills or you may surely have a stroke…If your life is stressful then maybe you need a vacation with no cell phones or beepers. You only get to live once and when you put things off until tomorrow chances are you won’t have tomorrow…Stress can make your pressure go up a little higher but a (sounds like a well deserved ) break from things may help more than you know.
Causes of Hypertension.
Age. Over time, the number of collagen fibers in artery and arteriole walls increases, making blood vessels stiffer. With the reduced elasticity comes a smaller cross-sectional area in systole, and so a raised mean arterial blood pressure.
Sedentary lifestyle
Low birth weight
Various genetic causes.(incomplete)
Hypertension is sustained elevation of resting systolic BP (≥ 140 mm Hg), diastolic BP (≥ 90 mm Hg), or both. Hypertension with no known cause (primary; formerly, essential hypertension) is most common; hypertension with an identified cause (secondary hypertension) is usually due to a renal disorder. Usually, no symptoms develop unless hypertension is severe or long-standing. Diagnosis is by sphygmomanometry. Tests may be done to determine cause, assess damage, and identify other cardiovascular risk factors. Treatment involves lifestyle changes and drugs, including diuretics, β-blockers, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, and Ca channel blockers.(Merck)
Preventive measures:-
Avoid occupational, aircraft and roadway noise exposure
Regular exercise for reducing hypertension..
Diabetes mellitus- Glucose (Sugar) test. Control your blood glucose & do self-monitoring as & when required. (Target: Fasting blood sugar 60-100 mg/dL; Postprandial blood sugar 2 hours after food-Less than 140 mg/dL)
Low sodium intake. (Sodium chloride, Monosodium glutamate, Sodium bicarbonate)
Avoid stress
Stop Tobacco smoking and Alcoholism.
Reduce high levels of saturated fat in the diet. Cholesterol Get your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels checked at least once a year. (Target: Below 100 mg/dL). Triglycerides. (Target: Less than 150 mg/dL) Serum Cholesterol (Target: Less than 200 mg/dL) HDL (good cholesterol) (Target: More than 50 mg/dL). Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
Reduce obesity – In obese subjects, losing a kilogram of mass generally reduces blood pressure by 2 mmHg.
Substitute fish high in omega-3 fatty acids instead of meats high in saturated fat like hamburger. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in omega-3 fatty acids.
Please see the web pages for more details on Hypertension.
Wow!!! Your pressure is pretty high and your doc is right. Please don’t take your wife’s advice. That’s crazy. And yes, stress can cause your blood pressure to elevate. Need to get that under control too. It sounds like you are trying to follow your doc’s advice. Keep it up . But, if your pressure is still elevated, call him asap. You need meds to get that down and soon. It doesn’t matter if you feel good or not. High blood pressure is high blood pressure. That’s why it’s called the "silent killer." Most people don’t realize that they have it until it’s too late.