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If you do not know the readings you have no idea whether your BP is "fine" or not. The first indication that it is not "fine" may be a stroke or heart attack.
Last time I had my BP taken was in 2008 when I was in Urgent Care for Food Poisoning and extremely dehydrated. They said my BP was EXTREMELY HIGH. Would that be my normal, not very sick, BP? Should I have been put on meds for High BP then?
Had my BP taken a year before at a clinic for a work physical (mandatory) and they said it was on low end. Don't remember the numbers. Didn't care. Few other time in the 90's, again at clinics for work physicals (mandatory), they also said it was on the low end of things. I've had my BP taken maybe 5 or 6 times in the past 20 years?
My husband has a home BP monitor, which he started taking his own back when in his 30's, and he takes daily because of his heart attacks. He's taken BP meds for a good 25 years. Didn't stop his heart attacks. IMHO, he eats very poorly and is constantly stressed out over absolutely nothing, including his HEALTH. Has been since he turned 30 years old. Telling him to chill out over minor things only makes he mad. Catch 22 cycle.
I am not about to starting monitoring my own BP with that home monitor. I don't go to doctors, and don't doctor myself either.
^^^^^ and if I did that, I would have been dead years ago.
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Is it ? I question that Fear Tactic. No one really know for sure but pharma has done their jobs at instilling fear in as many as they reach to get them on their drugs.
I don't need "Big Pharma" to tell me of the consequences of ignoring one's high blood pressure. I've seen it first hand too many times working in health care, and among friends and family members. Hemorrhagic strokes, kidney failure, congestive heart failure, near blindness. All in folks who didn't think they needed to control their hypertension because they felt "ok" with it.
Last time I had my BP taken was in 2008 when I was in Urgent Care for Food Poisoning and extremely dehydrated. They said my BP was EXTREMELY HIGH. Would that be my normal, not very sick, BP? Should I have been put on meds for High BP then?
Had my BP taken a year before at a clinic for a work physical (mandatory) and they said it was on low end. Don't remember the numbers. Didn't care. Few other time in the 90's, again at clinics for work physicals (mandatory), they also said it was on the low end of things. I've had my BP taken maybe 5 or 6 times in the past 20 years?
My husband has a home BP monitor, which he started taking his own back when in his 30's, and he takes daily because of his heart attacks. He's taken BP meds for a good 25 years. Didn't stop his heart attacks. IMHO, he eats very poorly and is constantly stressed out over absolutely nothing, including his HEALTH. Has been since he turned 30 years old. Telling him to chill out over minor things only makes he mad. Catch 22 cycle.
I am not about to starting monitoring my own BP with that home monitor. I don't go to doctors, and don't doctor myself either.
Well, maybe you'll get lucky and never have any issues with your health. Or maybe not. It's a game of russian roulette, but it's your choice either way.
Last time I had my BP taken was in 2008 when I was in Urgent Care for Food Poisoning and extremely dehydrated. They said my BP was EXTREMELY HIGH. Would that be my normal, not very sick, BP? Should I have been put on meds for High BP then?
I am not about to starting monitoring my own BP with that home monitor. I don't go to doctors, and don't doctor myself either.
Um, you actually did go to a doctor. One has to ask why you wanted treatment for your food poisoning in the first place. A bit too intense for you to weather on your own?
No one at Urgent Care would have put you on a high BP med. What they would have done is monitor it, make sure you didn't have a stroke at that moment, and then suggest following up with whoever your GP happened to be. If you didn't have one, oh well. It would be out of their hands either way. Everyone in the healthcare world knows BPs fluctuate a lot for all sorts of reasons...like being dehydrated and quite sick.
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