lower my blood pressure

I have Situational B.P. (Sounds like an infomercial).

Unfortunately it is a fact.

Recently I signed up to be a Lab Rat to try and help my worsening arthritis pain.

One of the great side effects is that you get a lot of free blood work and clinical tests to establish base lines and to measure if there have been any changes.

Lab work that often costs a fortune when it is on your insurance/doctor’s time.

So…

My blood pressure now that I am in an environment where they don’t change my meds every time it is high (evil side effects from Blood Pressure meds)...

IS WAY DOWN

As in 110/70 down.

Dang people!

This is an ongoing effort that needs better results.

So far the trend is in the right range…

I have managed to see 138 over 92 last week…

A High Normal for my Systolic and a Mild Stage 1 for my Diastolic.

One day at a time…

So the time has come to review the MIX as it were.

So new medicines.

Now with the added bonus of diuretics have been added to the mix.

So the net result is lowering the blood pressure and making me a heavy user of the local sanitation system…

Oh Joy!

122 over 69 with a pulse of 62

Now I can make excuses for the whole scene relating to life stress and all.

Yes it has been a bear.

Almost hit the trifecta this last week…

Debt beyond your wildest dreams to pay the lawyers for the unending series of delays, claims and counter claims…

And then there is a small matter of keeping a roof over my head whle all this is going on…

I’m frankly suprised the blood isn’t coming out of the top of my head from the pressure LOL!

Life comes at you ion strange and wierd ways.

There is a popular little test called HolmesRahe Scale or the life stress index

In my case I have maxed out…

631

In my case, I have a predicted chance of 80 percent of having a serious illness within the next two years… eeep!

I get bone chilingly tired and then can’t stay asleep or fall asleep…

This is not going to help the BP one wit…

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….}

It was frustrating…

It was too long…

But there was a light at the end of the tunnel…

today’s score was 107 over 69

_{I still hate the new medicine!}

I am still having issues getting used to this new round of medicine.

I have been assigned the drug Lotrel which explains why I have this perisistant cough (one of the well known side effects)...

The cough causes alarm in those who listen to me with any frequency. For this I am very sorry

The effect of the drug beyond that are a feeling of extreme lethargy, which I am fighting by forcing myself to be more active.

This is an uphill battle as all I really want to do is curl up in bed and stay there

However, as this is not a viable life option for me, I will practice what a dear friend does and I just fake it til you make it and by dingy…

I will.

So…

I continue on my path to ever lower blood pressure. I have not restrained myself from telling my doctor that if she kills me I will have achieved ZERO blood pressure and will therefore have won.

In this eventuality, I have ALSO assured her that I will insist that she not be paid.

In the interest of ensuring her car note and house note remain in good standing… she will continue to keep me alive and functional.

Otherwise this gravy train STOPS!

_{the pharmacy folks are also depending on me to stay going doc!}

107 over 64 and dropping!

Pressure I have beee taking at home has been fine…

Take it in the doctor’s office and there is anopther answer…

Not sure exactly why but this time elevated to 160 over 110…

BIG difference between that pressure and what I am taking myself…

135 over 86….

Not sure why…

Meds changeed…

So we see what happens next!