tknight is t'done t'day

lower my blood pressure (read all 17 entries…)
Another day another pill 20 months ago

But is all in the same thrill range dontcha know?

So we have added a diuretic to the mix in the ever increasing efforts to make the pressure I have in my pipe system…

just go away

In my case the numbers are now sitting at

111 over 64

But still the idea is GET it DOWN!

I am thinking that at this rate the answer will be to just turn my heart off, but I remain guardedly optimistic that I will continue to live given the threat implied that only blinking at a doctor can achieve….



Comments:

Enore is

I'm confused.

Isn’t this blood pressure pretty well perfect?

Actually, yes and no

The “old standard” of textbook perfect blood pressure used to be 120 / 80.

The “new standard” now classifies this measurement as “prehypertension”.

The newest metrics can be found here at the Mayo Clinic website.

Basically, you want to keep the pressure BELOW 120 / 80, which this reading thankfully is—but that was achieved only with the addition of the diurectic, if I understand correctly, t’knight??

Enore is

And not too long ago...

...a blood pressure in the 140’s would have been considered fine for a person, say, my age.

I have a new doctor for MY hypertension…no wonder he was telling me he wanted to see it below 120…


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