Well, that's my week kinda ruined.....

Hi FC
Sorry to hear about all this but a good thing it has been detected and they are onto it. My best wishes for you to get it under control and back to full fitness asap. In the meantime take care of yourself and keep us posted if you can.

p.s. spare us the gory bits as I also have needle horrors
Cheers
GG

 

Dunno Zigs. I weaned myself off salt years ago and now I can't eat anything with added table salt or some processed foods which often taste too salty to me. I started off using Lo Salt (I'm not sure if you can still buy it) and eventually stopped using that too.

Well at least it's been spotted and now it can be controlled.

 

Definitely FC. Not sure how old you are, but when I hit 50 after a half century of perfect health, things started popping up out of the blue including high BP, and yes it does make you feel low and concerned. We are only human after all. Still, sounds like they have you well in hand. Keep your spirits up.
GG

 

You need some salt Fern, no salt can make you die of death

 

Whoa FC...close call.....Wishing you back to 100% as soon as

 

I do get salt as it's in lots of food anway, just not loads of the stuff!

 

only just come across this FC. So sorry to hear your news but I'm glad your eyes led you to the Doc's door. You have a stressful job and this episode is telling you to take heed my friend -please do so,

Jenny

 

Oh no! At least you got yourself checked out! Hope you feel better soon

 

Evening @fat controller, I've only just spotted this thread. Sorry to hear of your woes. I hope you're better soon.

Re the blood pressure bit, be careful with the NHS on that one. They have a tendency to stick you on medication for the rest of your life if you're not careful, when it could just be a blip.

Take me for example. All my life my blood pressure has generally been lower than normal, yet at one point in my life it went through the roof, to the point that my nose randomly started gushing blood for no reason and my arms and legs went numb. At the time it happened I was stressed to the core, and I have no doubt this contributed to my episode. Luckily I had a good GP who warned me about the NHS tendency to stick you on tablets and send you away, and instead he worked with me to sort out the underlying problem.

In a separate incident much more recently, my wife developed dangerously high blood pressure. She was prescribed medication and told that was it for the rest of her life. She didn't want to take them. We bought a blood pressure monitor and she started monitoring 4 times a day every day, and at the same time started back on riding her bike. Nothing intense, just 3 or 4 miles through local woods. Her BP dropped back to normal and stayed there.

I'm not saying I know better (because I don't), and I'm not saying its the same for everyone (because I know it isn't), but two things really. Firstly it may not be so bad, it may just be a brief episode, and secondly, maybe see if anything can be done about it that doesn't depend on long term medication.

I seem to remember you saying in another thread that you were stressed and/or run down at the minute. Could this be a factor?

Is that why I always feeling really lethargic after I've been to the chippy for lunch?

 

Well worth the money, and talking about money, if you're going to be needing regular prescription drugs then investigate a Prepayment Card because one will save you a fortune especially if you get prescribed two different tablets every month.

 

The inner self will not look after the outer self