High blood pressure

Whens the Doctor coming out of intensive care Daisees?

 

I am being treated for HBP since March .

I go hillwalking ,walk 4-5miles per day have stoped red meat.

They put me on a drug 1.25m and on 1st June upted to 2.50 this is only medication Ia m on.
And I hate having to take this.

I get a blood test next week again as they check as drug can affect kidneys which is scary stuff.And get results 2days after.

Sadly my Dad had amassive stroke so think this is caution by th eDoct.

I am so hoping they try to take me off this drug.

Today I got the best of the day and walked 8miles .

I am in training to walk Ben Nevis in July.

Too tired to upload photos tonight but will share later in week.

 

Way back when I was in my early 40s the Doc decided I had high blood pressure, I was smoking at the time, and he said give up smoking and it will come down.

Well I gave up but it had no effect, he said take more exercise, well I walk the dog every day and spend most of the day humping stuff around, but that didn't count, he said, I needed to join some poncy gym, which I would not do, I do have my limits.

In the end he put me on tablets, but no one seems to want to divulge what my blood pressure should be, you just get the reply of "well I'd like to see it a bit lower".

I've been told GPs get more money if they get patients on tablets, not sure if this is true though.
But it tends to remind me of the Dentists back in the 70s &80s that just drilled and drilled in order to get paid by the NHS.
I've got the fillings to prove it.

 

Yes, very true. At my practice I pick doctors depending on the symptoms eg, Dr D is OK if it's just an ingrowing toenail, Dr R is good for a no-nonsense attitude to women's ailments and Dr G is brilliant for a serious, in depth look at just about anything but may make come out feeling worse than when you went in.

I practically got hospitalized the night before flying out for a holiday in Thailand thanks to a keen young doctor - for a sore finger.

Older doctors have seen it all before and are better placed to see how your symptoms fit into the average.

 

Yes, Pete, I've got those fillings too.

It is true that practices get funds for 'preventative' care - hence the sudden interest in lobbing drugs at people to treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

 

I have minimum contact with my Doctor.

The waiting room is full of ill people and its very easy to catch something nasty.

And his first question is usually, "well, what would you like me to do?"

A bottle of the red medicine would probably work, like it did years ago, but now we have those pills in those plastic push out things.
Errr, what exactly was wrong with a brown bottle with a bit of cotton wool in the top?

 

Me too, and I would have had a lot more had it not been for a scary documentary I saw a week before going in for 6 (yes six) fillings, and so I didn't turn up for my appointment. 15 years passed without me seeing a dentist, and when I got toothache one day I decided I'd better go. Lo and behold, in the previous 15 years, all my teeth had miraculously healed themselves. I needed no treatment. Magic.

That makes sense. I had wondered why lots of people I know are suddenly on meds they somehow managed fine without before.

The docs have been pestering my mam to go on some sort of tablets to lower the risk of heart attack, because, according to the doctor, there is a history of heart disease in her family. Granted her mam (my nana) died in her early 60s, of pneumonia, but her dad (my grandad) was one of 7 brothers who all lived into their 90s, and none of them died of a heart attack as far as I'm aware.

 

I was at the dentists a while back when a receptionist came in with a message. 'Mr Bloggs doesn't care what you do to him but he doesn't want you to talk him through it, he doesn't want you to explain things as you go along and he doesn't want you to draw any diagrams. As long as his mouth is completely numb he really doesn't care.'

 

I'm sorry for bringing Dentists into this thread, but I was there the other day.
The old bloke I had been seeing has now retired, and I saw a youngish lady dentist.

I felt like a little kid as she asked me how much sugar I eat, and do I brush my teeth regularly, these people are unreal.

And I had trouble understanding her, obviously a different dialect than from where I come from.:WINK1:

Oh and I need two new fillings even though I've not had any trouble.
£48

 

at my dentist, if you have toothache, you need 2 appointments ... the 1st one is booked for 20 minutes

he has a look, has a chat then rebooks an appointment for you in a week ... and he only sorts the tooth on the 2nd appointment ... this happens every time?

 

Which explains why I get a constant stream of letters, leaflets and notifications through my door from my local practice, telling me how they now offer 'screening' for acne or xenophobia and everything in between! Not content with that, they also go to great lengths to explain that even if they can't disagnose me with something now, these tests will show how 'at risk' I am of getting them in the future, thus creating for themselves a chance to lure me back for even more testing.

Now, I know I'm fortunate, I don't 'suffer' from anything, the last time I needed to see my GP was about 9 years ago when, being given his annual booster jab by the Vet, the cat gouged a huge lump out of my finger, (so deep it left blood up the wall!) and the Vet suggested it might need stitching. Apart from that I'm disgustingly healthy, but .... if I need to see a doctor because I am ill, then I will go.

What I truly don't understand is that almost every time I turn on the radio or read a newspaper I hear about the ageing population and how we're going to look after them or pay their pensions; stories about the 'over-stretched' NHS are legion; I listen to GPs moaning about how their waiting rooms are full of 'the worried well'. Conversely, there are the modern day 'public information' films, that urge you to check with your Dr if you're worried, not to mention the TV ads urging me to pay some private company £900 so that I can grin at a camera and say 'I've been checked'.

So .... if the NHS is in such sh*t state as we're all led to believe, why does it want us to be screened for this that and the other? So that it can pop us all full of pills in order that we all live longer? Do I really want to live until I'm a 103 year old 'bed blocker', relying on more and more medication, expensive equipment - not to mention carers - just so that I can survive until I'm 104? Well, actually ..... no, because it's inevitable that no matter what I'm screened for, how 'at risk' I am from something, however many pills I take, whether I eat my 5-a-day, drink like a fish, smoke like a chminey or become a super-fit athlete, at some time, I am going to pop my clogs - and there 'aint nowt they can do about it :patpat:

 

Quite agree, FM. Really, if the NHS was a bit more honest about its funding situation, it would be persuading us to take no exercise at all, cut out all vegetables, eat only saturated fats and smoke forty Capstans a day. Yes, we'd probably end up in hospital, but only for a very short while - no care homes or prolonged pensions necessary.

 

New NHS Wellness campaign:-

'Forty fags a day keep the care home at bay'.

 

Missed this topic yesterday - blood pressure problems run in my family, both my parents + my brother have to take some sort of medication for it now ; for many years I ignored the advice from the doctors (I rarely went to see them), which was fine right up until the point that I had a minor heart attack one night & woke up with cardiac arrhythmia (the heard beats irregularly) - this was in 2005 so I would have been 37.

Happy to say that my heart was fixable with a cardioversion (they stop & restart your heart) + I now have four pills daily to control the blood pressure & to keep things ticking over properly - ironically the pills make it more difficult to exercise, since they combine to stop the heart beating too quickly, so most things are undertaken at a gentle pace, which can be frustrating at times.

So my advice is be aware of what can happen. Having your heart stopped & restarted is no fun (although you do get knocked out at the time, which was quite enjoyable) - if you can control things with exercise & diet then you are lucky (Ive never managed to do this) otherwise do consider taking something but make sure that you understand what the different types of drugs do so you know what to expect.

I still avoid going to the health center BTW, although I'm summoned in twice a year now. I too believe its full of sick people & to be avoided..

 

Hi Clueless, only just spotted this thread. Dont really know much about high blood presure at all really so cant add anything not already said i think it has something to do with stress too. You can get subscriptions to health and lifestyle magazines really cheap and they are a great source for upto date reliable information on all sorts of issues from health and diet and exercising ect. Delivered to your front door too lol :WINK1: