I CHECK MY BLOOD PRESSURE AT LEAST ONCE A DAY . IT RANGES FROM 104 / 49 TO 118 / 65 . HE CUT MY MEDS IN HALF SO I QUIT THE CAFFINE SO IT WOULD CONTINUE TO STAY DOWN . I DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL SO THATS NOT A PROBLEM . THE ONLY PROBLEM IS WHEN I GO OUT TO EAT I LIKE TO DRINK TEA AND NONE OF THE RESTRAUNTS HAVE DECAF TEA SO I HAVE TO DRINK WATER .

Your blood pressure sounds good to me, Lizzie. Is that because you are on bp medication? I cant believe they dont have decaffinated tea. Why dont you bring your own and just ask for hot water?

thats a great idea goldie , i hadn't even thought to do that . i am on blood pressure meds but he lowered my dose .

You must be getting better, Lizzie, if your doctor is lowering the dose. Good for you!!

YES MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS DOWN . I AM ALSO BITING MY NERVE PILL IN HALF TRYING TO GET MYSELF OFF OF IT , IT IS ADDICTING , I'V BEEN ON IT FOR 5 YEARS , PANIC ATTACKS .

Good job Lizzie!! Keep it up, the less we take the better off we are.

thats what i think , the meds all have so many side effects.

I took bromazapam for panic attacks for 23 years!! Yes,, talk about addictive. They took me off of it when I was in the hospital intubated, and I fought off the side effects even once I came to. It was awful, but I did it. You can too Lizzie.

I TRIED TO QUIT ONCE BEFORE BY QUITTING COLD TURKEY AND I ENDED UP IN THE E.R. SO THIS TIME I'M CUTTING THE DOSAGE IN HALF AND SLOWLY GET OFF THEM . I DON'T LIKE BEING ADDICTED TO PILLS . DO YOU STILL HAVE THE PANIC ATTACKS ?

Goldie, that is what might have given you dry mouth.
I take zanax if I have an attack, works best for me and no problem with not taking them. But never take them everyday like they say too.

It could have been, Sunnie. I never thought of that, but you may be right! I am just glad that I am off them now. Sometimes I think I could use one, but I just keep on going until the panic is gone.. it is hard, but not impossible.

Hi, years ago everyone and their grandma seemed to be on these things over here. A friend of mine took valium 10mg 3 times a day and ended up in the psychiatric ward, the strange thing is it had the opposite effect of that intended and made her scared to go out .
when she tried to stop she used to shake like a rattle, they seemed to be worse than the booze.
They don't just dish them out like they used to now thank god!
Another thing which didn't help was the Mogadon at night to help her sleep The doc's just completely zombied her out.

Well, if you think that is bad all you need to do is walk in to a nursing home and everyone is like a zombie. It is terrible they are so drugged up they don't know you they don't themselves. There should be a law.
I think with the panic attacks, they tell you to take the pills everyday no matter what they are. Then comes problems.
I went to a study down at Miami Jackson fo this years ago. It saved my life as far as I was concerned.I was in it a little over a year but I knew I had the real pill the second day cause no panic attacks.
Didn't have them again till all the problems in my life with daughter were upon me and then only a few attacks so I am happy for that. And now it is more anxiety the panic as befor...Oh to be stress free...
I don't like sleeping pills at all...I sleep walk with them, and that scares me...

I was good when I was on the bromazapam too. The only thing was that they were so addictive, like you say lost. I would shake like crazy even if I was just a little late in taking one. I started taking larger doses over a gradual period of time and that is when I knew it was too much and I had to stop. I was made to stop, luckily and I wont go back on them now. I think it is terrible how they dope you up and I had to force myself to go outside too, or I would be agrophobic to this day.

I am going to talk about the Coffee and Tea controversy here.

I know for me when I was young the public schools made my mom give me Ritalin which is a bad and unsafe drug, might be why I am so much anti drugs; I would drink coffee to relax me and that was in school. I found when I drink coffee now which was too strong, I would get very tired and want to sleep a lot, but the problem with diabetics before I was taking Vitamins was I was tired a lot.

I know that some say Vitamin E is very healthy and then they said it will kill you and now they say if you take the right amount its good for you. I know my blood pressure will be higher for the time being and I have found if I don't drink too much, my blood pressure is better with green tea, but I haven't done a lot with the coffee, but all things which cause harm to the harmful drugs are said to be bad.

I love the pep I get from the Coffee and Tea, but there are things in the good versions of it for me and I love all of the non MD things I have learned about the benefits. If I want to get drugs, I can ask about drugs, but if I want good health, I have sources which share the good news.

I did read the messages and it was good to see many points of view about Coffee and Tea, I don't think this will do away with my diabetics, but I know my grandfather was big into drinking Tea very much. I can honestly say that I like to go through a day and only take one nap or not take any at all if possible.

Merry Christmas!
In Christ, Vernon