Posted by FrequentFryer on September 3, 2008, at 8:04:19
In reply to Re: HELP PLEASE! MAOI and high blood pressure, posted by seldomseen on September 3, 2008, at 6:27:41
> In my opinion, high blood pressure (and from those two readings, yours may be high) is really nothing to fool around with.
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> Do you take a lot of caffeine?
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> My best advice for you would be before you make any drastic med changes would be to purchase a calibrated home upper arm blood pressure monitor (not a wrist one). One issue with measurement is that there can be significant differences between monitors and you need a consistent measure.
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> A good one is the HEM-780REL model.
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17890973?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
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> Take your blood pressure at the same time each day. If it remains above 140/90 consistently, then you need to consider some changes.
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> SeldomThanks for the input.
I don't drink allot of Caffein or Adranergic substances (before checking my blood pressure) but yeah I am going to buy an upper arm blood pressure monitor.
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