Shoreline

Hey Izzy, Bp meds are like any other med. They put me on BP meds when I jhad the heart attack on my 36th Bday. The first dose they had me on made me feel light headed, I called the doc and he reduced the dose, I did my follow ups and now my HBP is controlled, last time I went I reto the Pm doc was the day after working 9 hours, what I call a recovery day. My BP was amere 117 over 68 anbut my painlevel was up there, so apearently the meds can control your BP and but you can still have a great deal ofpain even when vital signs may not really indicate it. I was like you, I went in for years with outragous BP but they always wrote it off to a pain flair and nobody really llooked into why my BP was 190 over 120 in my early 30's. It just so easy to blame pain or meds for any condition or symptom we might develop, But messing around with your heart is no joke. The heart attack was one of the most painful and scarry things I have ever experienced. I was under the impression that there was some kind of med they can give you during a heart atackk to stop it n it's tracks, However there is no such animal. They did the nitro 4 times, gave me 3 15 mg morhine IV injections and basically said you have to ride it out and if you survive tthey can get ypu into a cardiac cath lab and clean up the blockages with stents should you survive the MI.

I once read that women had a much higher mortality rate then men because woman don't always have the classic qarmpain crushing chest pain that indicates a MI. Some as sutle as shoulder pain, tiredendess etc can very well mean you on your way out. However when you go to the ER complaining of chest pain that's been going on for 3 days, docs take the emergency part out of the equation. If it had been a a true heart atack you would have had tyyou hiney in there at the first on set of chest pain. Thelack of early response that comes from womesns nature to disregarrd symptoms also takes away fromm the urgency that woud normaly get you in a cath lab the day the symptoms stat could save you life, but himming andfg hawing is certainly ta way to take the urgency out of something very major. .

So report any strange feeling, whether it's classic MI symptoms light headed nesssome variation, Let the doc make the call. Tht's what the ER is there for, so we don't have to jump on the net and see if our symptoms might be more orless serious than you think which causes you to avoid seking the attn for what wold certainly and need attn you might normally get.
Take care, Dave