On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 4:26:14 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
On 10/14/2016 01:06 PM, wrote:
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Be careful with blood pressure meds.
They killed my mom. It was not a direct cause but the Dr over did the
meds, she got dizzy a lot, fell broke **** and pretty much gave up the
will to live.
I stopped taking mine when I started monitoring my BP. It started when
I got dizzy walking on the ribs of my screen cage, 15' above the
ground. It turned out my BP would crash when I was up and around
(doing the potentially dangerous stuff) but it was high if I was just
sitting around.

Three lessons there.
1. Check your BP while you are in different activities.
2. Don't trust the Dr blindly.
3. Get up off your ass.

I decided I would rather take my chances with a heart attack instead
of falling off the roof or cutting my hand off with the table saw.




Thanks for the advice. I am glad I bought the blood pressure meter so I
can check the results at different times.

I have no plans for going up on ladders again but of course do not want
to go around getting dizzy.

Guess I will see what happens.

As I mentioned before, after what happened with my wife we will never
blindly trust doctors again.

Fortunately she got through a very bad situation...her survival can be
traced to the day I drove her to the doctor's office with two shoe boxes
full of pills and demanded and explanation.

After several more doctors she is now down from 14 different meds to
three and doing better than ever.

I asked the director of nursing for a list of medications given me so I can search the Web for what they are and what effects the drugs will have on me. I want to know WTF I'm being poisoned with because I despise drugs and hate having to take any kind of pill. I've actually discovered that some of the drugs that were given me interact and made me very sick. I had a big problem when two different doctors prescribed drugs that came from two different pharmacies. I looked up the medications on the Internet and found that two of them had deleterious effects when taken together. It's best to have only ONE pharmacy filling your prescriptions because the computer system at the pharmacy will flag any drugs known to have interactions with other drugs prescribed for you. Of course, an experienced pharmacist is another line of defense when you are being given poison in small doses as prescribed by a physician. ”Œ( à²*_à²*)”˜

[8~{} Uncle Sick Monster