Blood pressure

Machaon

Hi kenneyhayes, sorry that you have unhealthy blood pressure!

From 1998 through 2004, I suffered from chronically high blood pressure, all the time! I have been able to lower my blood pressure levels down to permanent healthy levels, mostly through a special diet and with almost no blood pressure medications!

Following are my nasty, scary Blood Pressure averages, for each hour (1 thru 24 or 1am thru 12 midnight), Jan 2002 thru Dec 2003 (24 months, 2455 readings).

Hr Sys Dia Nbr

1 153/93, 10 readings
2 143/93, 20
3 144/94, 19
4 146/97, 17
5 152/98, 17
6 153/100, 34
7 157/101, 95
8 145/92, 141
9 140/89, 183
10 143/91, 223
11 146/93, 174
12 148/94, 166

13 151/98, 100
14 152/97, 79
15 153/96, 106
16 149/94, 127
17 148/93, 90
18 150/95, 114
19 152/96, 140
20 158/100, 163
21 162/102, 175
22 164/104, 149
23 159/100, 75
24 154/100, 29

Daily average: 151/96, 2455 readings

These were my blood pressure readings during 2002 and 2003, by hour of day. Hour 1 is 1am (153/93) and hour 13 is 1pm (151/98). These were two long years of my blood pressure averaging 151/96 every hour of every day (based on 2,455 bp readings).

Every night between 10pm and midnight (20-24), my diastolic averaged at least 100! I was scared out of my mind! I tried every different kind of blood pressure medication available and nothing worked!

I am very lucky that I lived, or did not stroke out, during those years, especially considering that I was also dealing with Heart Failure, Permanent Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Valve Disease.

My blood pressure now averages 122/72 every hour of every day, all the time. I am feeling better at age 76 than I did when I was 50 and am doing so well, I have stopped going to my cardiologist.

How did I do this? A significant contributing factor was DIET. I went on a very healthy, small meal, frequent eating, low glycemic, ovo-vegetarian diet of 50% carbs, 30% fats and 20% proteins; with a total calorie load (less fiber) for the day of about 1400 calories. I have eaten around six small meals a day over the past 16 years! If I had a choice I would gladly and quickly go back to pizza and chicken wings and snacking and fast food and eating out. Fortunately, I found out what could greatly improve my health and my life and I stayed with it.

A healthy diet can do wonders for one's health. It is a most powerful medicine. However... I would not expect many to go on a diet like this, unless they also have serious, life-threatening health problems, like me. I have to diet like this. If I stray off my diet, my symptoms get worse and my health gets worse.

I had heart failure, so I HAD to take extreme measures! Fortunately, it worked for me and I feel great... old but great!

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kenneyhayes

Oh thank you for sharing this with me. I am 71 and I do not eat red beef, and I eat pretty healthy. My weight is good and sncaking has never been a problem for me. I was in a high stress job most of my life and have a bone disease, (that is under control), but I have not considered that diet would make that big a difference. I will check into that process. Thank you for your response.

Welshroots

Hope you are doing better. Your doc may need to make a referral if the two of you can't get the med situation worked out. I was on one type that actually made my pressure go up at times, or fluctuate wildly. So keep communication going with your doctor.

Also, do you do any low impact exercising, such as walking, weights, simple Tai Chi or Qigong? Meditation? Find something that can also help you to relax.