Point of no return - Page 6

Guy1_USA · 11-10-2007, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by tamuprof45

Among my many concerns is how the meds may change that...altering my ability to exercise or causing side effects that actually make my anxiety and stress even worse.

All I can say is keep away from calcium channel blockers and Beta blocker then. Those two are nasty meds and should be reserved for a last ditch effort... IMHO.

Monopril (ACE I.) and HCTZ haven't given me any side effects in my 16 years of taking them. Some report ACE giving them a cough.

Best of luck.

osteoblast · 11-11-2007, 12:03 AM

Tamu-When you exercise do you stay in the target heart rate zone? Do you spend some time outside the zone on the high side?
I was just staying to the high side in the zone, not going out of the zone. A fitness expert told me if doc said ok , then spend about a third of the time outside the zone on the high side.
Thanks for the suggestion about what to ask/look for.I had an eye exam with an opthamologist and nothing was said about high bp damage.

tamuprof45 · 11-11-2007, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by osteoblast

Tamu-When you exercise do you stay in the target heart rate zone? Do you spend some time outside the zone on the high side?

I was just staying to the high side in the zone, not going out of the zone. A fitness expert told me if doc said ok , then spend about a third of the time outside the zone on the high side.
Thanks for the suggestion about what to ask/look for.I had an eye exam with an opthamologist and nothing was said about high bp damage.

I exercise outside my heart rate zone almost the entire time. I am 45, and my typical heart rate range during the 30-60 minutes is 145-160 bpm. Heart rate recovery per minute ranges from 25-35 bpm.

I suppose perhaps this may be too hard on my heart, but the fitness instructor doesn't think so, and they way I see it, I'm doing a conventional stress test every day! I never feel any discomfort, and if it weren't for the heart rate monitor, I'd never even know my heart rate was that fast. This is one reason why I am so baffled by my blood pressure with what seems to be pretty good cardio health.

ALTHOUGH about the time my BP started climbing a year ago I started getting PVCs. These seem to coincide with my anxiety state, so its hard to tell if they are related to the BP or not. Palpitations are one symptom of high BP, but they are symptoms of lots of things too.

I know the systolic BP is the force of the BP when the heart contracts, so I am trying to figure out what might be going on with mine, IF it is something other than stress. Unfortunately due to the HMO I go to, even seeing a cardiologist takes months of constant pestering, and my primary doctor seems either clueless, or uninterested in this stuff.

Which brings me to my single biggest beef with doctors: that shrug of the shoulders followed by "well we just don't know what causes high blood pressure..."

Bull. High blood pressure is a symptom of something wrong, and that something could be (a) your heart; (b) arteries and blood vessels; (c) anxiety/stress; (d) glandular problems; (e) kidney problems; and of course (f) lifestyle. The notion that "high blood pressure happens" does not sit with me. It happens for a REASON, and treating it properly means finding out that reason. I don't enjoy doing the job of a doctor at this detective work!

tamuprof45

flowergirl2day · 11-11-2007, 01:20 AM

Beerzoids,

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So...... ze bottom line is: Since you have a significant problem with anxiety and stress, you might ask your doctor about taking sublinqual nitro for rapid reduction in blood pressure

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So good to see your post!!! Glad to hear you are doing so well.
Beerzoids, how big a reduction in blood pressure do you achieve with the nitro? How long does it take? Do you think it would be safe to take, should the need arise, when one is on a number of BP meds already? Was this your idea or your doctors'?

flowergirl