RE: Off to the doctor I go .....

angelsmom10 · Oct 01, 2003, 08:33 AM

birolGood luck -- hope all goes well

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 09:00 AM

angelsmom10

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Good luck -- hope all goes well

Thanks I hope so too. My fear is Diabetes ... But, I guess they would alredy let me know if I had any indications, as the medicine I am taking right now can not be taken by people who has diabetes. I have a feeling cholesterol will be high, oh well. It was time ti diet anyways. I lost5 Lbs in one week, not good I know but those pills left no apetite at all. All I want is some light veggies and soup, anything else is so repulsive, and everything started to taste so salty for some reason.

Will fill you in when I am back [

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angelsmom10 · Oct 01, 2003, 09:24 AM

birolWhat is the name of the RX you had?

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 09:29 AM

angelsmom10Inhibace 2.5 Mg. I hope it was the worst of the worst. It made me feel horrible.

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 01:03 PM

birolAnd back .....

She only spent 5 minutes with me. Measured my BP, which was 150/120 she said. very high. She prescribed another medicine when I complained about the side effects of inhibace and said, BP is very high and needs to be controlled and that I might have to take 4 pills a day to do that.

I told her, it is probably high because I had to wait for one hour for my 10:30 appointment and got seen at 11:30 and she did not comment [>:]

She prescribed Apo-Atenol which might have some nicer side effects like swollen legs, being unable to breat, depression adn so on, so much fun. I hope I don t get any of the bad effects. Pharmacist said, I probably feel just dizzy till I adjust and that would be all.

Thanks God all other test results came back normal, no diabetes. She said they hadn t done a collestrhol (sp) test, and they will do that next week. She is surprised that all is well and I have very high BP, and she is very concerned, I can see it in her eyes.

When I was getting the pills , I measured it at one of those machines, and it was 150/105 which is more or less what I have been getting all the time with the pill. SInce I didn t take any pill since Monday morning, I thought that was excellent. Maybe the measuring things in pharmacies are all inaccurate ?

Anyways , as promised I gave a status report

Jo Ann · Oct 01, 2003, 01:21 PM

birolbirol...that is horrible...you want your bp to be under 130/80...that is the european standard which the usa should be adopting soon...and some docs already have...i try to keep mine under 130/80...but i have alot of trouble with my lower (diastolic) number.

i am glad all the other test are good.

are you taking anything for your depression yet? anxiety will help to keep your bp up.

angelsmom10 · Oct 01, 2003, 01:25 PM

birolI don t trust those machines in the store. I ve been at the Dr and then to the pharmacy and used the machine and it was way off. Just keep what you re doing and everything should work out. Good Luck

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 01:39 PM

Jo AnnJo Ann,

I am not depressed, what makes you think I am depressed ? Seriously. [

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Undepressed Birol

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 01:40 PM

angelsmom10Maybe I should buy one of those wrsit type BP monitors ? Do they work

angelsmom10 · Oct 01, 2003, 01:53 PM

birol

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Jo Ann,
I am not depressed, what makes you think I am depressed ? Seriously.
Undepressed Birol

Haven t we heard somewhere else that you were depressed -- see a pattern forming [&:][&:][&:]

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Maybe I should buy one of those wrsit type BP monitors ? Do they work

When I had the CPAP tests, they used them and showed my BP off the wall(one time, it wouldn t even measure and then around 180/110 or something), the redid it with a regular machine and it was around 142/89 -- much better.

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 01:54 PM

angelsmom10

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Jo Ann,
I am not depressed, what makes you think I am depressed ? Seriously.
Undepressed Birol

Haven t we heard somewhere else that you were depressed -- see a pattern forming [&:][&:][&:]

You saw/heard it after Jo-ann told me I was depressed and I started a poll asking people if they thought I was [

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Jo Ann · Oct 01, 2003, 01:54 PM

biroli don;t know if they do....

i would get a digital one if your heart rate is easy to detect...my bp one has trouble detecting mine cuz my heartrate has a habit of being faint and tachy (fast) and hard to detect with a digital bp thing.

birol · Oct 01, 2003, 01:56 PM

Jo AnnI think I will grab one from wallmart and calibrate it at the doctors office, see how close it is to the manual ones they use. It flunks, I return it back. [

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angelsmom10 · Oct 01, 2003, 02:18 PM

birol

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I think I will grab one from wallmart and calibrate it at the doctors office, see how close it is to the manual ones they use. It flunks, I return it back. []

Have you DW learn how to use the old fashion one and that will be the best. We know how to use them, it s not that hard

brainpause · Oct 01, 2003, 03:06 PM

birolThe digital blood pressure monitors are actually pretty good. I ve had pts tell me that they were close to what we measured many times. They will for sure show trends upward or downward anyway.

Larry

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