On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:26:40 GMT, (Rex B)
wrote:

On 12 Apr 2004 18:05:01 GMT, Ignoramus4468
wrote:

||In article , Rex B wrote:
|| On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:59:13 GMT, Gunner wrote:
||
|||| I have to purchase a blood pressure monitor for my wife. She has to
||||be able to use it by herself. There is a wide variety of styles (and
||||prices)
||
|| When the doc told me to start checking mine daily, I stopped by Walgreens
and
|| bought the best one they had. It was the fully automatic unit. Put te cuff
on,
|| hit the button, let it cycle through, read the results. Still works great,
on
|| the original batteries. Cost about $75.
|| Rex in Fort Worth
||
||Just for your information, losing weight on a sensible diet can
||dramatically help with BP issues. I lost 50 lbs and no longer have
||hypertension.

I'm 6'4", 199-lbs. A little round in the middle but no obesity that you'd
notice. I like a couple of beers in the evening, and I like salt on my steaks.
And coffee, though I'm moving to decaf. Need to excercidse more, though I'm
plenty active. Even on 10 mg Norvac I can't get below about 155/95. Need to get
a little lower to renew my SCCA license, which expires this month.
Rex in Fort Worth

Chuckle..hypertension is one one of the wife's problems. After two
heart attacks, a double bypass, the resulting arrhythmia etc, a diet
of Coumadan and Amadron..her BP runs about 80/90..when its that high.
Lots of blood thinners.... monitored every couple weeks by her
oncologist and cardiac care specialists

she is 5'2", around 115lbs soaking wet with low normal choresteral.
Unfortunately, there is a family genetic predisposition to plugged
arteries, and a "best if used by date" that runs in one side of the
family. Her dad died at 45 from a heart attack, both her brothers had
heart attacks at 45 and she had hers at 45. She resembles her brothers
far more than the sisters and mom, who have no history of any heart
problems, so it was passed along the male side of the family.

5 angioplasties, two shunts, and she still plugs off, and she has very
very small veins and arteries according to her cardiac specialist.
They had a hell of a time figuring out why she builds plaque and plugs
off.

Gunner

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