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Take a Guess

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I’ve experienced an entire day of elevated blood pressures, as I normally do, but it’s only 5:30 PM. My first BP this morning was 145/92. 2 hours later I was feeling weird so I asked someone to check again. 151/74. Half hour later it went up even more to 155/95. I then took my blood pressure medicine, which I’m supposed to take if my systolic number is above 150. It worked and my BP was 106/77! When my BP is around this range is when I feel my best. Only one problem. It’s now 5:50 PM and my blood pressure is back up to 157/96. Should be an interesting evening. I will keep you posted!

More BP Issues

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Happy Memorial Day! I’m having some major blood pressure issues today. From as soon as I got up this morning until a little while ago this evening. My first blood pressure reading was 161/95. I took it again an hour later and it was 167/105. I took my blood pressure medicine. It came down for a couple of hours before elevating yet again. It jumped back up to 170/107. I took another BP pill. It came down to 95/57. That’s where we are right now and it’s 7:45 PM. Who knows what the rest of the evening will bring. I hope you all had a nice Memorial Day..

More BP Issues

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My blood pressure started out pretty good this morning – 137/84. That was about as good as it got before going downhill fast. At 11:20 AM it was still pretty good (140/89) but definitely higher. By the time it got to be mid afternoon I was definitely feeling off so we checked again. At this point it jumped to 166/106. I took my BP medication and it definitely worked. It dropped significantly – 85/55 at 3:50 PM. After a little bit it had evened out – 119/80. I have not checked since then but I have felt fine. It’s great to have medication that helps but I wish I didn’t have the problems I do in the first place. It’s crazy what medication can do. Very helpful. Just my drama for the day. Hope you all are well!

I experienced a few highs and lows today. I was able to stand for 2 1/2 hours! The lowest my blood pressure got was 91/61. The only reason I came down was because my aide had to leave. I probably could have kept going for a while. Now the bad part. At some point my cathetor got pinched and I didn’t realize right away. My body shook a lot and I couldn’t figure out why. I started to feel weird so we took my blood pressure. 196/136! That’s one of the highest I’ve ever recorded! That borderline stroke! We located the problem, fortunately, this time around – my cathetor got pinched and I was retaining a lot of urine Spinal cord injury life. You never quite know what you’re going to get from day to day!

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Longtime Coming

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I’ve been really bad with my efforts in trying to stand lately. It’s more difficult than riding the bike because I should really have someone with me while I stand but that’s not always feasible. My blood pressure usually doesn’t cooperate for too long unless I stand on a regular basis which again, is not always possible because of staffing. The last time I stood was August 31 and I was able to do so for an hour and 22 minutes. After all that time I finally got a day where my aide was able to be with me (check my blood pressure, among other things) so I figured I would try it out. I probably went up too fast because I was only able to stand for 38 minutes before my blood pressure plummeted to 75/47. Kind of dangerously low. I did not want to pass out so I lowered myself. I was only able to make it 38 minutes. Just means I have to try more often!

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