High Blood Pressure Support Group

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a medical condition wherein the blood pressure is chronically elevated. Persistent hypertension is one of the risk factors for strokes, heart attacks, heart failure and arterial aneurysm, and is a leading cause of chronic renal failure. Doctors recommend weight loss and regular exercise as the first steps in treating mild to moderate...

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komom 03/18/2011

I am on Licinipril and Nadodol for my BP. At the time I was put on meds (a month ago) my BP was 160/100. It has been coming down slowly over the last month. My BP this evening is 115/756. I find myself obsessing about my next reading! I have had readings as high as 149/105 this week.
Does anyone else see their numbers fluctuating so much?

deleted_user 03/19/2011

i'm on new tablets ( a couple of days ) so not sure they are working enough yet but yesterday after being on the phone sorting out my daughters hospital appointment the bottom number hit 100 and stayed there for about 10 minutes. Then it dropped down to 85. Later in the evening the bottom number dropped to 77 and stayed there most of the night.

jrueda 03/19/2011

Hey!!!,

Do not become obsessed with that.

Do you know that our body it is prepared, and in fact it does, to change the BP every 6 seconds? It is the time that our internal sensors (baro receptors) need to react.

If you take your BP 1 or 2 times a day it is MORE than enough....

Jesus

JohnD1 03/21/2011

Jesus is right. The only time that you need to take your BP more than a couple of times a day is to check if you have a particular daily pattern of highs and lows. For this you would need a 24-hour ambulatory monitor from your doctor anyway, you can't do it on your own.

BTW Shirley -- sorting out hospital bureaucracy is enough to send anyone's BP soaring! :-)

John

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