{"id":1813,"date":"2021-12-23T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T17:31:03","slug":"about-that-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"About that blood pressure&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>    After just being happy about cooperating blood pressures, now I&#8217;m writing quite the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     Yesterday (Wednesday) my morning started off normal (126\/84). I rode my exercise bike which normally elevates my BP pretty high (150+). Shortly after riding I could feel it was starting to drop. It got to the point where I was feeling pretty off so I had someone check it. It was 88\/45. I have a medicine, Midodrine, to take when it goes below 90, so I did. It helped to elevate but not very much (115\/74). 2 hours later I started feeling off again. Blood pressure was 86\/57. I took my medicine again and this time it elevated my BP up to 148\/99. So it did what it was supposed to do, maybe just a little too much. I have another medicine I need to take when it&#8217;s over 150 (Nephedopine). Luckily it didn&#8217;t get to that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     It&#8217;s simple things like this most people probably don&#8217;t think about or don&#8217;t associate with a spinal cord injury. It&#8217;s been a struggle ever since my injury and is not just me. Practically everyone with a spinal cord injury deals with this kind of stuff on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just being happy about cooperating blood pressures, now I&#8217;m writing quite the opposite. Yesterday (Wednesday) my morning started off normal (126\/84). I rode my exercise bike which normally elevates my BP pretty high (150+). Shortly after riding I could feel it was starting to drop. It got to the point where I was feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}