i'm so confused
so many questions.

have another: does anyone here know anything about blood pressure? mine has gone from the low end of healthy to the very high end of healthy in the 4 weeks i have been doing this detox - can it vary a LOT from one reading to the next, or am i totally fucked?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:01, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

For a variation on a common theme:
I'm afraid it's SADS
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:02, Reply)

GAYDS

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:04, Reply)

It can vary, simply drinking more water can boost your blood pressie
Mine is unusually low, probably because I'm dead inside
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:02, Reply)

Your blood fucking what?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:05, Reply)

Innit

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:05, Reply)

really??
i went from 108/70 to 135/83 and water intake has gone from pretty much zero other than in fruit, veg and diet coke to about 3-4 litres a day......
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:06, Reply)

Don't worry over 24 hour period mine dropped several time to around
70/50 and even slightly lower
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:14, Reply)

ok
thank you. i do have a sliiiiight tendency to overreact...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:15, Reply)

where on earth did you get the idea that drinking water raises blood pressure?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:07, Reply)

My cardiologist
Are you better qualified?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:12, Reply)

really? on what basis?
I mean, even I'm not going to argue with a cardiologist, but unless you have a certain very specific medical condition I'm amazed.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:14, Reply)

The simple fact is, if you are dehydrated your body does not create
Rwd blood cells as efficiently as it should, so before giving drugs to anyone they suggest drinking more water.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:15, Reply)

Also I'm allowed to eat salt willy nilly
Strikethrough as you wish
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:16, Reply)

Did you show it to the girl next door?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:31, Reply)

so that might mean someone with apparently low blood pressure could then become within a normal range
but could it also make a normal reading high? one for the cardio maybe.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:16, Reply)

Or you might simple have bone cancer
Probably caught it from your bent boyfriend's cock
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:18, Reply)

i could do with that right now
take my mind off this blood pressure shit
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:19, Reply)

Sorry, you could do with bone cancer, or your bent boyfriend's cock?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:22, Reply)

i'd prefer the cock, if i'm being entirely honest

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:26, Reply)

I'm not completely surprised

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:33, Reply)

that's for elevated blood pressure.
dehydration increases not decreases blood pressure. The only condition I'm aware of that does the reverse is autonomic failure.

There has been some fairly unsubstantiated research that suggests in a small proportion of people there is a very short term (15 mins or so) increase in blood pressure immediately after drinking a large amount of water - thought to be due to a misfiring control receptor - but otherwise, like I say, I'm astonished.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:18, Reply)

Meh, just what I was told
Probably nhs cuts innit?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:19, Reply)

no, genuinely, he's a cardiologist
I'm sure he's got a million times better handle on this than me, I just can't possibly imagine how it could happen, except the receptor thing, and that's really short term.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:23, Reply)

you can get huge variations if you suffer from white coat syndrome.
but, otherwise, not really. Cutting out caffiene should have lowered it, not vice versa. So, that's probably not good. Insert "I fucking told you so" as many times as you like.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:04, Reply)

definitely not WCS
possibly crappy tesco pharmacy as opposed to proper doctor syndrome.

argh. will it go down again??? my resting pulse rate had dropped from 68 to 62, which i thought was good.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:06, Reply)

Also her post could be read as:
My blood pressure has remained within the healthy range.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:06, Reply)

no, it now falls within "prehypertension" which i am not happy about, as it has never been anything like this before!
validate me, but mostly just fix it, kthx!!!!!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:07, Reply)

Speaking as a quack
I can recommend you supplement with Co Enzyme Q10, Garlic and something high in Antioxidants which I'll think up off the top of my head when you call.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:10, Reply)

CQ and Enzyme?
should i take both at once? or one after the other?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:14, Reply)

Haha
You can have a click for that.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:16, Reply)

Take both after eating 4 times a day

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:17, Reply)

the whole antioxidants thing
is one of the most unsubstantiated pieces of horseshit in the history of quack medicine.

Just sayin.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:20, Reply)

I'm well aware of that
Good profit margins, though.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:21, Reply)

sorry tangles
but anything that changes your blood pressure significantly over such a short space of time is something to at the very least be concerned about.

Also, I'm aware of the exact detox thing she's doing, and it does fit into the category of "things that may be considered not clever"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:09, Reply)

Swipe is doing Nakers?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

lol

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

Indeed

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:16, Reply)

Haha

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

I thought she had just stopped boozing and drinking diet coke?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

it's a bit more extreme than that
but until the blood pressure test, i was feeling amazing. now i am just feeling worried!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:20, Reply)

Worrying will only exacerbate your blood pressure problems

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:22, Reply)

it's like an exercise in irony

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:25, Reply)

Ironic exercising may help a little.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:27, Reply)

could it be a temporary reading though?
ie the difference between having it taken at the surgery after 15 mins of sitting calmly in the waiting room and having it taken at the supermarket after a couple of hours of shopping, car valeting etc?

or should i go back to the doctor? :(((
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:12, Reply)

That depends
Is he HOT!!!
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:13, Reply)

god you're so fucking shallow

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:14, Reply)

buy a blood pressure monitor
they cost fuck all. Take your blood pressure at the same time every day for a week or so. See how it goes.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:15, Reply)

but, yeah, it could be temporary
mine fluctuates massively with stress.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:15, Reply)

this is practical and sensible advice, i will look on amazon
i would be really fucked off if yeah, my skinny jeans are too loose and yeah i have kicked the diet coke habit, but then i need to start taking blood pressure meds. urgh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:17, Reply)

sod amazon.
Boots sell BMA approved ones for about 30 quid.

Edit - and you're miles off meds. I've fluctuated between pre-hypertension and hypertension for years and I'm not on meds, and I'm older than you.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:20, Reply)

this is making me feel much better
you're not all that bad really, are you?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:22, Reply)

mine floats around 135/80 ish.
but I have WCS, which means that the standard reading in a doc's surgery is more like 160-170, which is difficult to explain. Oddly when I had my life insurance medical it was 120/80 though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:25, Reply)

funny that
hmm. does the doctor have a hot nurse, wearing nothing underneath the white coat? that could explain it?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:26, Reply)

jesus, no.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:27, Reply)

then my prescription is a new doctor with a new nurse

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 14:33, Reply)