I think if blood pressue is bordering on even a bit high it puts a strain on a person's heart

This seems why more over 60's are being put on blood pressure meds. I read; to ease heart strain.

My pressure has always been fine but with Arrythmia I have now gone onto a low dose meds (do not like it one bit) but my Doctor believes the less strain on a heart the better.

Trouble is different Doctors have a different opinion on most conditions we have.



I am VERY annoyed as I loved taking Cinnamon but I have an even worse migraine when I eat it

and found out some people are allergic to Cinnamon. If you get a headache or worse head after eating it Google Cinnamon and make your own mind up. I believe it is great personally but cannot now take it.

Phyl.

:lol: Lark - seems that the old machines are better then. I am getting just a tad fed up with all these new 'improved' things which we have to put up with on our old basics whether it be foods or machines like this

worked so much better.



137 is within the old normal range of 140/90 before they altered it down as a benchmark in order to sell even more drugs to mugs like us who cant say no if they use a machine which is designed seemingly to make all the whole world go on BP meds.



Saw a program from the UK saying that they intended to mandatory make all over 50 take BP and Cholesterol drugs and were trying to make a combined drug which wont suit the drug co;s as they will only sell one less profit!



I will try to get mine to use the old machine if he still has it tucked away which I bet he does - may even offer to buy one off him for my own use and sell the new fangled one I have.

They do not actually measure the blood pressure, but derive the readings. Digital oscillometric monitors are also confronted with “special conditions”.



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What am I missing here ............here we have another signature link written in FRENCh...............Sheesh you people whats the problem ................... :sick:

They say that high blood pressure is not noticeable by a person but a while back I ran out of my BP meds and as I could not leave home because of floods, I felt that my blood pressure was high,

When I finally got to the doctor a few days later I told him that I felt that my blood pressure was high.

He asked me how I knew and I told him of the symptoms as he thought it is not usual for a person to know.

When he measured it, I was 216 / 126

He immediately went and got some pills and made me take on straight away and asked me to come back in an hour.

Well eventually the pressure went down but he warned me to never run out again as he said I was on the verge of having a stroke or heart attack --- phew

They do not actually measure the blood pressure, but derive the readings. Digital oscillometric monitors are also confronted with “special conditions”.



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Sounds just like when they test your cholesterol - one size fits all as they use an equation and don't actually test each individuals blood. Too expensive most likely but once at least before they prescribe statin pills would be good. Even more so if they hadnt lowered the bench marks so even more on the pill for the benefit of the drug co's bottom line!

Even more so if they hadnt lowered the bench marks so even more on the pill for the benefit of the drug co’s bottom line!



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Ues I feel that why they lower it--my BP was the same as it is now ON Meds--was that way for decades and was always told it was fine--then all of a sudden--he stated ITS too high!?? but once on not game to go off.

I saw a program not long ago on telly where medical folk were saying that there are far too many tests and once the docs get you on the medical treadmill of testing it is hard to get off.



A close friend of my husband was put onto Statin pills without any effort to see if he could get his cholesterol down by exercise and diet and he stuck it out for 2 yrs silly bugger as he was always in pain but never told anyone - then he started vomiting and falling over and he said how bad he had been feeling - when he got a doctor appointment had 6 weeks to wait - meanwhile he stopped taking the pill and felt better than for the last 2 years. When he saw the doctor - he put him on another one and 2 days and he was back to vomiting - stopped taking it.



He tells us he now takes nothing for his cholesterol and it is down to 5.3 of which 2 is good cholesterol and still the doctor thumps the desk and tells him he will have a heart attack and one time almost threatened to stop seeing him at all! He now dreads having to go for his BP meds which he needs as it is a 6 monthly confrontation.



Hubbie now know 4 men and 1 women just in our village who cannot take these pills and have had the same bad sick aches in the stomach all day and ended up going off the pill and none had done diet and exercise.



I looked cholesterol up on the internet and a lot of info to get your cholesterol down by natural foods daily and 30 mins of walking minimum a day.



Also Logicol margarine with plant sterols all the above folk are taking- by word of mouth recommendation to each one and all report their cholesterol is well down naturally and their docs are not happy with them for not taking the blooming pill!

Well the Drs get so many rewards for getting folks on all this medication thats why they get you on it a lot of the time