High blood pressure
It sucks.
For what ever reason, my blood pressure isn't cooperating and all the blood and EKG tests come back good, but for some reason, still very high blood pressure.
Meds are doing what they should and some nights really suck.
They put me in a heart monitor for 2 weeks and all good. Doesn't make any sense.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
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I’ve got hereditary blood pressure issues as well (Thanks @GaryThompson ). I hope it sorts itself out brotha 🙏🏽 Might be time for alternative methods
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@Cam_91 said:
I’ve got hereditary blood pressure issues as well (Thanks @GaryThompson ). I hope it sorts itself out brotha 🙏🏽 Might be time for alternative methodsYep.
Been looking into some breathing therapy that is supposed to help.
And nutritionist is saying to take potassium and magnesium too..In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.4 -
Magnesium helps me when the regular meds aren't quite cutting it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
Retire, no more high blood pressure. You're welcome.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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@Patrickbrick said:
Retire, no more high blood pressure. You're welcome.Working on it. 2 more years to go and I can.
Although, if I keep going this rate, I may have to take a medical retirement.In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.0 -
Hang in there.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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@Patrickbrick said:
Hang in there.Yep. Thanks.
I keep telling younger guys to think about the work they are doing and that everything they do now will come back to haunt them in their late 50s.Year of commercial fishing in Alaska, logging and heavy equipment repair is taking its toll on this old body. The last 5 years have seemed to accelerate the breaking down.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.3 -
I think the best thing a person can do for their health as they age is to adopt a regular form of low impact exercise. Work is not exercise. I'm soon to be 75 and I manage to walk for 30 - 45 minutes every day and three days a week it's 20 -30 minutes with dumbbells and a bench. Learning how to exercise takes a bit of time but it's worth it. Start slow and keep at it.
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Yoga
Easy to keep up if you ... spread your mat behind them yoga pants“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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I have naturally high BP. Between the meds and watching my salt intake I have down to around boarder line high levels. It took a lot of fiddling around with the med levels to get them to work properly. One thing that worked well for me was switching the time of day I was taking them. I now take them right before bed instead of in the morning.
One other thing, drink plenty of water. It makes you pee more which flushes more salt out of your system......Just don't pee in the shower or @VegasFrank will lose a little bit of his soul every time you do.7 -
My BP was borderline forever. That is, until they adjusted the parameters downward, which only served to make me more skeptical of the medical establishment. So I blew off the docs over the years when they suggested some BP meds. I always told them and myself I'll just exercise more and lose some weight. Well, that never happened, and now I wonder if some of my heart issues are a result of ignoring my 140/90 numbers. Lucky for me, that when I finally started listening, the first med (Losartan) at the initial dosage works perfectly.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis0 -
My Gf had a procedure this afternoon and I was wondering if her pressure was ever gonna drop so we could go home. Never had a blood pressure issue any other time.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
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They started me on a low sodium regiment.
It sucks.
I have to keep my sodium diet under 2500 mg of sodium.
Sounds easy, right? Start looking at Nutrition Facts on everything, then add all the sodium in them you eat through out the day. It adds up quickly.And exercise. Evidently, the work I do isn't enough exercise.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.2 -
If work isn't exercise, why is it so tiring?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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It's a conundrum. Exercise is work, but work is not exercise. While true, a leap of faith is required to fully comprehend it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2 -
@0patience said:
@Patrickbrick said:
Hang in there.Yep. Thanks.
I keep telling younger guys to think about the work they are doing and that everything they do now will come back to haunt them in their late 50s.Year of commercial fishing in Alaska, logging and heavy equipment repair is taking its toll on this old body. The last 5 years have seemed to accelerate the breaking down.
I know that’s right
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@0patience said:
@Cam_91 said:
I’ve got hereditary blood pressure issues as well (Thanks @GaryThompson ). I hope it sorts itself out brotha 🙏🏽 Might be time for alternative methodsYep.
Been looking into some breathing therapy that is supposed to help.
And nutritionist is saying to take potassium and magnesium too..CPAP took care of my snoring and blood pressure within a week. Your wives will thank you.
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Zero's got wives?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain3 -
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210429123340.htm
"Taken together, the study shows for the first time that intermittent fasting can be beneficial in terms of reducing hypertension by reshaping the composition of gut microbiota in an animal model. The work also provides evidence that gut dysbiosis contributes to hypertension by altering bile acid signaling."This study is important to understand that fasting can have its effects on the host through microbiota manipulation," Durgan said. "This is an attractive idea because it can potentially have clinical applications. Many of the bacteria in the gut microbiota are involved in the production of compounds that have been shown to have beneficial effects as they make it into the circulation and contribute to the regulation of the host's physiology. Fasting schedules could one day help regulate the activity of gut microbial populations to naturally provide health benefits.""
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@Amos_Umwhat said:
Zero's got wives?Anybody have high BP dealing with multiple wives
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@deadman said:
@Amos_Umwhat said:
Zero's got wives?Anybody have high BP dealing with multiple wives
Anybody have low BP dealing with multiple wives?
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves livesIt'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
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@IndustMech said:
@deadman said:
@Amos_Umwhat said:
Zero's got wives?Anybody have high BP dealing with multiple wives
Anybody have low BP dealing with multiple wives?
Anyone have multiple wives?.....My mind doesn't even want to go there....
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@ForMud said:
@IndustMech said:
@deadman said:
@Amos_Umwhat said:
Zero's got wives?Anybody have high BP dealing with multiple wives
Anybody have low BP dealing with multiple wives?
Anyone have multiple wives?.....My mind doesn't even want to go there....
I've got a friend from Kenya who's dad was a village chieftain. He had multiple wives. Each one took responsibility for a different aspect of their lives. They seemed to make it work.
"Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."
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You wanna know why Solomon had a thousand wives?
He thought it would improve his odds of finding one that didn't "have a headache".
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis6 -
I have two ex wives, does that count?
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I have HBP and have been on Lisinopril for about 2 years but since starting a Keto diet with intermittent fasting and getting exercise I no longer have to be taking it. I am also using a CPAP machine but can also notice that I do sleep better even if I forget it or sleep with out it now that I have lost weight.
Team O'Donnell FTW!
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White5 -
@avengethis said:
I have HBP and have been on Lisinopril for about 2 years but since starting a Keto diet with intermittent fasting and getting exercise I no longer have to be taking it. I am also using a CPAP machine but can also notice that I do sleep better even if I forget it or sleep with out it now that I have lost weight.The thing I'm having a hard time with is that I am right at 6' and 180 lbs.
So it's not like I am heavy.
With this low sodium diet, I've lost 4 lbs in less than a week.
The problem with the way I was eating, was I wouldn't eat anything all day or snack on a ton of processed junk food, then have a huge dinner that was packed with sodium/salt.
The nutritionist figure I was at almost 5,000 mg of sodium per day. Ouch.Now my sodium intake is between 1,000-2,000.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.4 -
Remember that not every person's high BP is related to sodium. Years back, I was monitoring my BP daily and took my sodium intake very very low and my BP didn't change.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2 -
maybe that 4 lbs. is mostly water?
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@peter4jc said:
Remember that not every person's high BP is related to sodium. Years back, I was monitoring my BP daily and took my sodium intake very very low and my BP didn't change.Just doing what Doc tells me.
They take blood, put a monitor on me for however long and then tell me what I need to do.In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.2
