Question! High blood pressure, what was yours at?❤

I was around 150/95.

My GP recommended follow Moseley’s Blood Sugar Diet.

BP was down to acceptable levels within a week.

Over a longer time I lost 4 stone. The BP is still good and I’ve never felt better 👍

Ok, had the call.

I’m being put on Amlodipine. “Maybe 1 or 2 others as well, if that doesn’t work.”

Hmmmm… We’ll see.😉

This is a potential interaction with my chemotherapy (Imatinib)

Imatinib may increase the blood levels of amLODIPine. You may be more likely to experience serious side effects such as irregular heart rhythm, fluid retention, swelling, heart failure, and excessively low blood pressure.

😂😁

I used to take that. No side effects for me… but no effect either 🤣

good luck!

Hmmm I’m a good way through a bottle of red, always get my best BP after a drink, time to get out the monitor?

Can you get Malbec on prescription?

190/110 this week in my recent 50 year health check, nurse checked 5 times with 2 different machines. Going to have one strapped on for 24 hours Monday in case it was just white coat syndrome.
Not overweight, diabetic, low alcohol use and reasonably active.

^^ Well, you’ve beaten my record now, I got 181/111 last night.
A PB for me.lol

Absolutely no idea whatsoever. It’s been checked at various times, found to be fine for my age, although I was given a prescription for statins just to be on the safe side, and until I have a health check that shows a potential adverse effect of something, I don’t really care.

Well, been on the meds for a week or 2 now and just taken a reading of:

147/97

That’s much better but hopefully will get lower still after a few changes I’ve made.

220/120 about 8 years ago, now 120/80.

I felt great at 220 feel like a bag of shit at 120….

Apparently i have hyper resistive blood pressure, shedloads of drugs lost 4 stone, a damaged pancreas from being over prescribed a blood pressure drug….

@oldmanmtb2

Sorry to hear about the pancreas damage mate.

Wow this is interesting reading as p20s brother in law ended up on meds in the last month. Mid 50s, definitely not overweight, walks a lot and cycles regularly. However, buried his wife in the last 6 months and likes a glass of red.

By comparison my highest ever was probably 140/75 before a getting a flu jab at Uni in freshers week. They wouldn’t give it to me! Normally is more like 104/72.

128/84 today, heading the right way.👍

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Looks like I’m joining the club.  Docs took a one-off reading at 183/120 after 3 retries which was fairly alarming. Think the highest was 187/something.

Thankfully I’ve monitored it at home since and I suspect white-coat syndrome and the real figure is closer to 150/100. I’d still like to get it back into the right range though.

Is anyone following the DASH diet?  I’m struggling a bit with getting enough protein. Lots of the meals where I’d usually get a decent amount are high in salt or fat. Not a massive fish fan either. Currently eating a lot of lentils and chickpeas, so much like the USA i have a bad case of the trumps right now.

PS. it’s amazing how much salt is in store bought soup.  New Covent Garden’s pumpkin soup has 3.2g per pack for example. The same amount of salt as eating 23 bags of McCoys crisps.

I was approx 115/80 earlier this year after being 130/90 ish summer ’23, just taken a reading now after seeing this thread and i’m 137/95! 😮

averages around the 100/75 mark but that’s 5mg ramipril, 10mg bisoprolol, 80mg atvorstatin, 75mg aspirin. all after a “chest pains” scare at the age of 52 … 62 now and still kicking, well gently waving the foot around now 😉

I’m 46, mines 126/76. No meds. 92kg, 5’11” (trying to lose weight at the moment!)

I’m on x3 lots of drugs at this too! Doc is currently trying Doxazosin in place of Bendrofluazide (others are Ramipril and Amlodipine)…

Had a work medical and mine was 218/120, felt fine and had no idea it was so high.

Got signed off for a couple of weeks till meds took it down to an acceptable level,

still on the high side but nothing crazy, gradually tweaking the meds till we get the right combo.

Maybe it’s our monitor, but an hour later after having my first two cuppas of the day, I’ve dropped to a less alarming 134/84.

Still not ideal, but a bit lower, which I thought shouldn’t happen with caffeine intake.

Verging on low blood pressure here ~95/60 when MrsG had to do lots of home checks for her high blood pressure. The drugs really got her’s under control well.

106/64 recently. Can’t remember what it was when I quit alcohol but my Dr said it was high.

Started a low carb way of eating at the same time as quitting the booze. Lost nigh on 4 stone and sorted my BP.

Bizarrely I usually have higher BP at home than when the doc takes it

I always take 3, a min or so apart. Discount the first one which is usually slightly high as I’m stressing  about it. As soon as I see the result and realise it’s not that bad I relax and the next 2 are usually closer to 120

I read that the difference in the numbers is significant, ie 120 over 60 isn’t as good as 120 over 80. That said I regularly have a difference of 50 and a doc has never batted an eyelid. And the other thing I find is that when I’m stressed the systolic number goes up but the other number doesn’t. Or doesn’t as much

Also, I’m convinced electric monitors read high. Every time a doc has used a manual one I’ve been well below 120.