Quite Worried My Bp Is Over 200

[Bobbisox1]

At my Doctors now as an emergency to check me for heart failure ,I’ve always enjoyed excellent health with no meds , waiting to go in
( scared)

[Bobbisox1]

Which I have done

[MissTerious]

Thanks for a best answer Bobbi. I wanted to calm you down and put my sensible hat on. I'm a panicker and know what it's like to get things out of proportion!!

[Bobbisox1]

I’m feeling quite chipper Lottie and wondering if it was indeed the heat although I was never out in it, I did a reading after breakfast and it came in at 140/73 which I’m so pleased about

[MissTerious]

Good news Bobbie. I have been on bp tabs for years. This heat is not healthy for us Northern Europeans.

[ladybirder]

Bobbie do you sit quietly and relax for a couple of minutes directly before you take your blood pressure? If I don't do that I get a higher reading.

[Hazlinny]

If he's reading your thread, Bobbi, Sqad might be the one to answer this - blood pressure readings used to be taken with patient sitting, standing and lying down ... now reading seems to be only taken once (sitting) - what has changed?

[Sqad]

Hazlinney........years ago BP was taken lying down after a rest, even at the Drs surgery. But the argument was that you spent the most of your life, standing up or sitting down and a BP after rest and or lying down was not a true representatative of your cardiovascular state.

I agreed.

So now at home if one takes one's BP 2 or 3 times a day, sitting, then that gives a true representative of one's BP i.e whether treatment is necessarry or not.

[Hazlinny]

^^ Thank you!

[jno]

Hazlinny, the last time my GP took my blood pressure, she did it three times in a row before she got a reading she approved of. (I thought it was the best-looking one too.)

[jennyjoan]

Hi Bobbs - I know it is not for you but works for me.

When I take a notion of cutting down a certain thing - I weigh myself every day and could never get over losing maybe a pound or half a pound - it was a great feeling as then I knew I was losing. It worked for me - I do have digital scales which actual tell you the loss of ounces LOL and they would have helped me along too.

the only difficulty I had was subtraction - do I subtract from 14lbs or 16 ounces. Had to scratch the oul grey matter as ounces do matter LOL - good luck with trying to lose weight but as you say you are a certain age - don't worry about it too much as life is far too short with a pound or two extra.

[windywillow]

It's good to hear your readings are looking better Bobbi, that must be such a relief for you.

[Bobbisox1]

Sqad just done my reading after my evening meal, 158/73, is it best to wait a while?

[Sqad]

Not bad........take it before you go to bed rather than after a meal.

[Bobbisox1]

Will do, thanks

[Vagus]

I’ve been told by my gp to do 3 readings, waiting a few minutes between each one. Ignore the first two and just make a note of the third. I believe this is the recommended way to do it these days.