High Blood Pressure Drs visit.

[Onceabiker]

For more than two weeks I have felt like I had a knife stuck inside the left side of my scull. Nothing would shift it and I would go to bed with a hot water bottle clasped to my head.

I saw the Dr and she told me my blood pressure was very high and if it continued I might be in danger of a stroke. My farther had high blood pressure all his life but he was a big drinker. My mother was always a worrier and had three strokes, the last one was the end to her life..

Although I have skeletal issues due to being run over by a car I have exercised as much as I could for the last 40 years, mainly on a bicycle. I had my fourth left hip a year last September and I am on a waiting list for a right knee so cycling is out for me and I don’t know if I can return to it in the future.

I don’t drink because of the Nortryptaline (sp), eat porridge and blueberries for breakfast and don’t add salt to anything but I am told by the Dr to make lifestyle changes - what exactly is that!

I was asked if I wanted to go on blood pressure reducing pills for the rest of my life but it was my choice. What is the alternative and what are the side effects?

As I was about to leave the Dr’s she asked me what my Fibromyalgia triggers are. I did not know I had any! I’ve just got it.

Does anyone know what the answer to this is? Do certain foods set you off? Or the pressures of life? Or lack of sleep?

[Dizzytwo]

Hi there ,may I ask what was your BP reading . I only ask because headaches are a serious major part of untreated high BP . And if it was so high I am wondering why your GP let you leave the surgery without medication.

I have high BP and there have been occasions when my GP as told me it was more than her job was worth to let me leave the surgery with out a prescription for BP meds.

[Onceabiker in reply to Dizzytwo]

Think it was 165/105 on that occasion. I took my bp twice a day for a week and it averaged out 150/85 I think.

[Dizzytwo in reply to Onceabiker]

Thank you for your reply. I see it is higher than they would like . Mine is or was quite higher.

[Astonvilla68]

just a thought I was on amitriptyline and I had to come off it because it caused high blood pressure isn’t what you’re on of the same family have you considered or has The Doctor considered that might be causing your high blood pressure if nothing else . I’m on LDN that can reduce blood .Its for fibro also worth considering . I’ve been a year and it has I’ve had no side effects

[Onceabiker in reply to Astonvilla68]

Thanks for the answer, food for thought.

I am on Nortryptaline and Co-Codamol plus Sertraline. I could not go on LDN because of the co-codamol.

Thanks for your reply.

[Missus835 in reply to Onceabiker]

How are you making out with the Nortryptaline? I find it makes me very zombie-ish.

[Onceabiker in reply to Missus835]

Yes when I took 60mg at 8pm I would be very drowsy until 11am the following day. I had to get up at 7.30 to see my kids off to school but two strong coffees later I was still not in focus till 11.

Through trial and error I have ended up taking 35mg at 5.30/6 - not as good killing the pain but I can function more. Still don’t drive early.

Best of luck.

[Missus835 in reply to Onceabiker]

Yes. I found myself sitting on the edge of the bed in my nightie, not having done anything by noon. This is not me. Now had it helped the pain at all, I might have found a way round it. Thanks for your reply, helps to know we aren't entirely bonkers..

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How many hips do you have!!!??????

😉😉 Just kidding Onceabiker, My GP asked me the same thing last year Hmmm🤔 My main one is stress, I don't mean worry or upset because I can't find something that was never lost (sock and dog bed come to mind)

The stress of being afraid of someone knocking on the front door ??!! What the chuff??

The stress of being afraid someone is looking through the window??!! What the chuff??

The stress of being unable to speak on the phone??!! What the chuff??

Hmmmm🤔

The stress of having to take a beta blocker to leave my home for appointments??

Maybe it's not stress at all but sheer panic and anxiety,

I write things down and the GP has them whenever I go, All of these can set me off and all of them may sound daft to one person, but to me? I hate these things I feel I'm unable or very hard to do,

I find Garlic and cheese can start stuff off,The small daffodils (narsissi)Soz spelling naf,

Day light is a pain in the backside, Even without sunshine

I also have a dog that will not leave my side when a flare is begining and a realy switched lovely Husband🥰

I've already had two mini strokes,

So Chicken and egg??? Or Stress and Fibromyalgia

I hope you find what you are searching for Onceabiker

Take care Debsx

[Onceabiker]

Yes, I have found that I am a hermit for the last two years or more. I just don’t want to cross the door which I’m sure is a pain for my wife but she is all over the place shopping and visiting Dublin and going to the Lake District all with her friends. She was at Bluewater for two days last week and Nottingham overnight to see The House Martins this weekend. I don’t begrudge her out having fun with friends but I also get lonely when she is not here.

The farthest I go is 200 mtrs to my doctors surgery to pick up my prescriptions once a month. The rest of the time I stay in. I like being in my garage ( what a bloke) but go out the back door rather than the front as I don’t want present chit chat with the neighbours.

A woman banged on the front door quite loudly looking for charity donations and I couldn’t answer the door.

On the blood pressure front I read today that Noratriptalyne can have a side effect of increasing blood pressure. Well that’s it then. Don’t want to be taking more drugs to combat the effects of the ones I’m already taking!

[2hot]

Hi Onceabiler, unfortunately I don’t think trying to keep fit and healthy does anything for some people’s blood pressure. I have been on blood pressure pills since my twenties. I eat healthily and exercise as much as I can with the issues I have. The pills are ok and part of my life now. I have still had some mini strokes but now have aspirin to take too. I would advise taking the pills as your body needs them to avoid anything worse. Take care.

[Chrisbel]

I cured my high blood pressure in 4 months using natural means, basically getting my system to produce more Nitrogen dioxide, which relaxes your blood vessels, which makes it easier for your heart to pump the blood through them, so first, I read the chapter on blood pressure in the book “how not to die” then I bought a kilo of organic hibiscus tea from Amazon, make a strong brew (equivalent of 5 teabags) in the morning, and drink two cups and then 1 in the evening, (apparently as effective as blood pressure lowering drugs over 4 months) also I started taking vitamin B2and B9, and grape seed extract and olive leaf extract, all of which have the pressure lowering effect due to increasing NO2 in the bloodstream, cut down on coffee and alcohol and within 4 months my blood pressure went from spiking at 200 over 90, s back to my normal 120 over 60. ( during the 4 months it went up and down, you have to be consistent in taking the stuff. I had read that after the vaccines for Covid many people around the world had experienced blood pressure spikes,and have passed this on to a few people who it has worked for. In regard to triggering bouts of pain, I have found that diet, stress, weather are the most triggering, cutting out inflammatory foods , sugar, alcohol, caffeine, really makes a difference, regular stretching and exercise helps, breathing oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber really helps, accupuncture from a proper Chinese medicine doctor helps, and hard physio to soften the muscles, although painful,helps in the long run . Otherwise I am selling up and moving to a warm dry country! Hope this helps

[Chrisbel in reply to Chrisbel]

Oh, and stick to grass fed organic butter, olive oil, coconut oil and avocado oil all organic, avoid all the others as they seem to cause inflammation , and as far as possible remove all chemicals from your food, life, house, toothpaste anything you put on your skin, works for me!

[Onceabiker in reply to Chrisbel]

That’s some list. Something to think about . Thank you.

[Chrisbel in reply to Onceabiker]

There’s a lot more, as in supplements, I take 30 odd supplements a day, split roughly into categories for pain, energy, immune system, and cognitive ability.