On BP I feel that it is an absolute must that you keep track of it yourself, at least twice a day. Something I learned from trial and error.
I went to have some dental work done and the dentist wouldn't do it. Said my BP was 215. In thinking about it I had been having a few funny feelings in my chest off and on. Took it for gas as I had been with a lot of that with the cancer, not knowing I had it.
So I go to the doc. and get put on the water pill. UGH! Every 2 hours, sometimes every hour, every night, no thanks, even with Flowmax which I think is a band-aid. Told her she could do better than that. Put me on Lisinopril at 20 mg twice a day. Went that route for awhile and really started feeling funny, especially light headed, dizzy at times...something is dreadfully wrong here...... Went and got a BP tester, the neat little guy that you strap on your wrist and shucks my BP was down in the low 90's. For a 6'5 guy that works most of the day, that just didn't get it.
So I took my handy tester and some common sense and tweaked my pills. I find that I am a 115 to 135 mmHg guy. Too low and I get that "something is wrong" feeling and too high and the boo birds come out of the wood work.....hypertension shame on you.......
For the last 2 years I record it twice a day and find that it varies all over the place. Stress will really make it shoot up. If I am going to be in a stressful situation or get exposed to one, time to pop a pill, but usually not a 20mg. unless it's up around 170. Without any stresses, I now take one of three combinations: none morning or evening, 10mg. either morning or evening or 10 mg both. Not bad considering where I started.
Other nice thing about what I said above, is that when I do go in for a checkup, my BP and nonperiodic insulin measurement logs go right along with me......the BS was a newly acquired scare I got this Feb. She said it was 136 and bordering on Type II Diabetes. Since dad and his mom had it, and I was getting on up in years, It scared the begeebies out of me enough to quit my favorite sport (beer drinking) cold turkey....haven't touched a drop since Feb 16 the day before I went to see her and she told me what I said above.
She requires a blood test so a few days ahead of time I get that and when I arrive for the visit, she has all the necessities to see what's going on with me rather than........Well Dr. I just don't feel good. I have a headache and my back hurts and I have a bunion on my tootsie......so she sits there blank faced looking at you like.....well what do you want me to do about it? LOL
Well, since I am feeling fine and all my ails are fixed I changed the hyd-tranny fluid in my 2 Ford tractors yesterday. Can't remember the last time I did that and if I did record it I couldn't find where. Day before that I changed the Oring on my lift cylinder in one of them to stop it from hiccuping. Been wanting to get that done for a long time. There I kept it legal. Grin.
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