Small medical update
Jun. 30th, 2003 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanWell, I went in to the clinic, bearing my blood-pressure log with the readings that caused dizziness circled in red. The nurse really gave the hairy eyeball after she took my blood pressure. 158/98 and I think I should cut back on my medication?
My nurse practicioner, however, looked at the log and made no difficulty at all. After some discussion, we decided to leave the hydrochlorothiazide alone because it's very cheap and is usually the one drug left when people taper off; and we decided to leave the beta blocker alone because my pulse rates were pretty high even with it. Then she asked me which of the remaining two was more expensive, and we ended by deciding to cut the lisinopril down to twenty milligrams.
Unsurprisingly, my blood pressure went up for a day or two. However, it was 106 over 67 this morning, so obviously this was not a crazy thing to try. Maybe if it stays like that I can cut another drug back. Whee.
She also told me something Eric had mentioned a few months ago, that there were new hypertension guidelines out, and that anything higher than 120 over 80 was being considered worthy of treatment or at least changes in diet and exercise habits. Yipes.
Pamela
My nurse practicioner, however, looked at the log and made no difficulty at all. After some discussion, we decided to leave the hydrochlorothiazide alone because it's very cheap and is usually the one drug left when people taper off; and we decided to leave the beta blocker alone because my pulse rates were pretty high even with it. Then she asked me which of the remaining two was more expensive, and we ended by deciding to cut the lisinopril down to twenty milligrams.
Unsurprisingly, my blood pressure went up for a day or two. However, it was 106 over 67 this morning, so obviously this was not a crazy thing to try. Maybe if it stays like that I can cut another drug back. Whee.
She also told me something Eric had mentioned a few months ago, that there were new hypertension guidelines out, and that anything higher than 120 over 80 was being considered worthy of treatment or at least changes in diet and exercise habits. Yipes.
Pamela
