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, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

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)