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I'm sure, over the entire population, those with a pressure of 130/80 are more likely to suffer serious illness than those with 120/80. However, is a 40 year old on blood pressure medication for the remainder of his life more or less likely to suffer serious illness than an un-medicated person with a blood pressure of 130/80? I guess we'll know in 40 years. In the interim, I don't see myself taking medication for a BP of 130/80.
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Mine is 115/64 with a pulse that is usually in the mid40s. I'm safe. For a while on that front. Cholesterol is a little bit high however and diet seems to have little effect, exercise has no effect at all.
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i have a Dr. appointment in two hours about BP, haveing weird issues that all the googlefu won't anwser. I'm medicated for high BP and some times my numbers are 130ish/mid 90s couple hours later I'm at 180/130, for no rhyme or reason, and hour later back down again, never really low enough but no idea what is going on. I'm in my mid thirty's I could stand to lose about 10-15 lbs. I drink very little, no smoke,
Go to an endocrinologist.
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When I go to the VA for my yearly check-up, my visit is early in the morning, and my BP is "high". So the nurse says "your BP is high this morning,is that usual'? I then pull out my record book that came with the BP machine the VA gave me some years ago, and within I record my BP at various times of the day.( If you guys don`t have one,Machine, get one, it`s quite revealing.) If I average my BP, it`s close to "normal" or what was normal. I`ve also dropped 30lbs, and have kept them off. Anyway, with the record book I can show them they don`t know what their talking about, and they drop pushing the drugs.
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I'm on BP medicine. Mine bounces all over the place, 125 to 130 over 75 to 80 is about average for me, but it is sometimes higher, and sometimes lower. If I take it when I've been resting for a while, it can be as low as 115-60. If I take it after being active, it can be 140-85. Just depends.
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Good idea.
Years ago when I was actively trying to get an a handle on my blood glucose I kept records of my home tests, and had regular appointments with a dietician/diabetes specialist.
When I handed her a copy of my daily finger stick numbers she said "Oh, you've brought me paper".
I replied "I've brought you data."
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I have watched my blood pressure over the years! At 67 I have been averaging 128/70 this is a three year average! Talking to my Dr. About blood pressure he said, since I see you when your in pain or sick, I expect your blood pressure to be a little high! What's normal for one person might be ten points different for another person! That's why three years of data points! The last four checks were 120/60, 125/60, 130/65 and 120/60. I don't do any focused exercises! I do lots of walking, and wood cutting, playing with grand children, things like that everyday work! I did notice that when I retired my blood pressure dropped slowly, as did my weight. Went from 185 to 165 in about a year, not by diet just no salesmen bringing doughnuts, not setting on my butt in meetings, half the day!
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The lower the standard is, the more folks can be put on drugs!
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Is mine bad? I just checked it at 110/59 & 110/64? The heart rate is 73 same as my age. I'm 70, and I have a heartbeat app on my iPhone - I'd have to jerk off to get mine anywhere near 70. If they check my BP early in the morning before I've had a lot of coffee, then 105 over 70 would be my upper limit. 100/102 over 68 would be my norm. I've even had it lower and they look at me to see if I'm awake.
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At 55 years and 15-20 lbs too heavy, mine runs around 126/68 if I'm not talking politics.
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I'm gonna die one day , that is something I can't avoid and the doctors can't prevent.
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Is mine bad? I just checked it at 110/59 & 110/64? The heart rate is 73 same as my age. Cubed with IQ.
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The lower the standard is, the more folks can be put on drugs! of course, and we all know that they are really .gov mind-control drugs too. Gotta keep the natives calm and sedated. Where is my tin foil?
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so now i'm borderline hypertensive along with borderline fatass and borderline fuggen nuts. great.
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Guys it is so easy to control with the right meds that there should be no excuse not to. There are five different families of bp meds, so if one isn't working, change something. +1 on having your own bp digital read out cuff. Like was mentioned you need to be calm when you get led into the room and just left to sit there for like 5 minutes. Do you know that just crossing your legs raises your bp!? Also it is lots easier staying calm if they send you in with the old, ugly bp taker. I think that my doc keeps one on staff just for bp. Us Scorpios are all the same.
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Dissenting opinion, FWIW.... plus some possibly useful information. Our local clinic has a PhD expert in hypertension on staff, and my doctor referred me to him to help manage my BP. The opinion he expressed to me was that yes, high BP is bad, and it does cause problems. But for a guy in his 70s, with no heart disease or diabetes, it doesn't hurt at all to run 150/80. In that case, the BP risk factors about balance the risk of falling from hypotension. So I quit sweating it so much. I dropped a supplement that I had been taking, and it dropped me about 15 points. I'm presently running in a pretty safe area, and feel good. One of my BP meds has the side effect of reducing pulse rate, and mine is typically very much on the low side anyway. So I followed an example..... I replied "I've brought you data."
The stats on my BP with and without that drug showed absolutely no effect on BP, but a significantly higher (better) pulse without it. So I quit taking it.
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142/89 a few minutes ago ran out of meds yesterday.
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In the news today, medical experts have just changed the limits for high blood pressure. The old numbers were 140/90 signalling hypertension. The new cutoff is 130/80. "Normal" is still 120/80.
That means that millions of people who were "near normal" before are now classified as hypertensive. The reason, they claim, is that even a slight rise in BP leads to other serious illnesses.
But the effect will be lots of new prescriptions for statins, and the hidden effect will be that little box on insurance applications. Now, millions of people will have to check that "Have you been diagnosed with hypertension?" box. Watch your insurance rates go higher than your BP, folks. Medical and insurance establishments manipulating chit for money.
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I'm gonna die one day, that is something I can't avoid and the doctors can't prevent.
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I'm on BP medicine. Mine bounces all over the place, 125 to 130 over 75 to 80 is about average for me, but it is sometimes higher, and sometimes lower. If I take it when I've been resting for a while, it can be as low as 115-60. If I take it after being active, it can be 140-85. Just depends. It's normal for your blood pressure to fluctuate during the day when you're active, that's why you're supposed to take it first thing in the morning after you have been sitting for at least 10 minutes with your feet on the floor. Then take it several times because it will still vary some. I got my yearly physical exam last week and my blood pressure real high (160 over something) because I drank a LOT of coffee that morning trying to wake up from staying up late the night before. The next morning it was back to my normal 120/70 (sometimes it's slightly lower than that). I don't take blood pressure medication.
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