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Either here or "Chronic Disease", although it doesn't look like either forum is very active.
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Ya know, perhaps a New Category should be suggested for General Health Questions because .... or wait, maybe a whole category devoted to Blood Pressure... i discovered in April that I had prehypertension (about 130/86) and I was able to bring it down quite easily by a moderate change in diet and added exercise.
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Mine didn't get high until my 40s and now it's hard to control. I am going through all the usual garbage with my excessive weight and perimenopausal time of life. It's tough. The doctors just increased my lisinopril (doubled it). And within a week, I ended up in the ER with "palpitations" which I called miss beats but were in actuality PVCs, many of them in fact. Since I rarely experienced this fluttering feeling in the past (and not for more than 30 sec. or a minute), this is a dramatic change. The cardio docs don't want to say it's the lisinopril even though some of the drug info says it can cause pounding beats, irregular beats. So I'm going back to my regular GP to see if he wants to change it back and give me something else to supplement. He has also told me that the average person with hypertension eventually ends up on three drug regimen to control it because that seems to be the most effective. Right now, I am praying that all these PVCs are drug related and things will get back to normal because all the other tests they gave me showed my heart was in good condition.
Will diet and exercise help me. Probably but at my weight that ain't an easy thing to do especially on limited income with children still at home (and high school age).
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