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Is she taking 3 BP pillas at day and her doctor never spoke to her about doing exercise ? That's one of the first things any doctor recommend to its patience when high BP.
Is she taking 3 BP pillas at day and her doctor never spoke to her about doing exercise ? That's one of the first things any doctor recommend to its patience when high BP.
Actually, since they told her to double her pills, she is taking 5 all together, and no mention of exercise..but I will tell her.
Doctors will always guide a patient towards a remedy that they are most likely to keep up with to get a condition under control. Its the same with diabetics ,they get them on medication to get the sugar down and then start with diet and exercise. Smokers are told to cut back, use the patch, instead of to quit. most of us who have food related issues we are trying to over come need time to build habits to control it 100% with diet and exercise. Its important to get the numbers down if they are too high with meds and slowly decrease the dependence on them with diet and exercise.
My Mom`s BP has been running extremely high..example: 223/103 or higher.
She is already taking three BP pills to help bring it down but its not working.
She said that about a week or so ago, she was laying in bed, but was not asleep,and she heard what sounded like a shot gun firing off in her head.
I was going to ask on here if anyone knows what she could do, to help lower it.
Some more information would be helpful.
How old is your mother? How much does she weigh? Does she smoke or drink alcoholic beverages? How long has she known about the high blood pressure? What are the names of the meds she is taking? Does she have any other medical problems? What other medications does she take, including over the counter meds? Does she live with you?
The most common cause of uncontrolled high blood pressure is not taking medication regularly. Are you sure she is taking her pills? If you do not live together, consider getting one of the pill organizers that let you sort the pills into the appropriate times for each day of the week. That lets the patient tell at a glance whether the medication has been taken. Are there any financial concerns? Are the meds expensive and she is trying to stretch prescriptions by not taking the medication every day?
As others have pointed out, the things she has control over are her diet, weight, and exercise. Lower the salt intake. Simply walking at a moderate pace can have a tremendous benefit. She should not be lifting weights until her pressure is controlled.
If she has been taking her medications religiously, there are some tests that can be done to rule out some of the more uncommon causes of hypertension. If those have not been done and her primary care doc seems uninterested in doing so, then ask for referral to someone who specializes in the treatment of severe high blood pressure.
As far as the gunshot noise in her head, I have no explanation for that. Rupture of an aneurysm might cause a severe, sudden headache, but if that had happened, she really would have wanted to go to the emergency room.
Have you accompanied her to see her doctor? It might help if you went with her and expressed your concern that her pressure is not being controlled.
I am about as vigorous an advocate of exercise as you will find, but there are some circumstances under which exercise can be dangerous, and one of these is when blood pressure is already extremely high. Sure, for slightly high pressure, pretty much all doctors recommend exercise, among other things. So some well-meaning posters have taken this limited knowledge and applied it to this situation.
Here's what the American College of Sports Medicine has to say in it's 2010 edition (eighth edition) of ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (page 248): "Resting SBP >200 mm Hg and/or DBP >110 mm Hg are contraindications to exercise testing..."
Translation: Resting systolic blood pressure of greater than 200 millimeters of mercury and/or diastolic blood pressure of greater than 110 millimeters of mercury are indications that exercise testing should not be conducted.
Note that they are saying that exercise testing under these circumstances should not be conducted even in a clinical setting, much less by people setting off on their own at home.
My Mom is 67. She smokes cigarettes and has all her life.
She weighs about 140..maybe less now. She told me earlier what her medications were, but I didn`t write them down. She takes them faithfully, and I live 6 hours away..however she lives with my Dad,so she is not alone.
He took her to the ER last night after she had her BP taken and it was diagnosed at 270/ something..
She had her gallbladder taken out in May, and she said that she doesn`t know how long her BP has been up, because she doesn`t take her pressure regularly, if she is feeling ok. She is a bit...hhmmm.. stubborn that way.
My Mom is 67. She smokes cigarettes and has all her life.
She weighs about 140..maybe less now. She told me earlier what her medications were, but I didn`t write them down. She takes them faithfully, and I live 6 hours away..however she lives with my Dad,so she is not alone.
He took her to the ER last night after she had her BP taken and it was diagnosed at 270/ something..
She had her gallbladder taken out in May, and she said that she doesn`t know how long her BP has been up, because she doesn`t take her pressure regularly, if she is feeling ok. She is a bit...hhmmm.. stubborn that way.
Yep. She needs to take her BP religiously 3x per day and keep a diary for herself and her physicians to better understand what is going on. I'm certain she has been told to stop smoking. Some folks would rather die than give that up; sad. I lost both parents to that nasty habit via lung cancer.
Beyond the risks of stroke, prolonged high BP has a miriade of other complications for your mother's other major organs. She needs a specialist who can help get this under control ASAP. She has to want to get her BP under control and be a willing and active participant in her own healthcare.
It really does suck when you don`t have any insurance.
Thats her excuse to not go to the hospital for help. She can`t stand the fact that she owes the hospital money from her gallbladder surgery.
I know what your saying!
I am glad she is going to the er.
what is her bp when she is discharged?
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