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Originally Posted by Perna
Oh, how scary, Ygrec. My husband is on 3 meds I think but has always been pretty stable; he just turned 68 a couple days ago. I only have slightly elevated, "appropriate" for my age I think so I'm working with diet and exercise, etc. to keep track of it. Do you know about telemonitoring? If you pay attention to it, apparently it responds :-)
http://www.nature.com/jhh/journal/va...h2010119a.html |
No, Perna, I hadn't heard about telemonitoring. I'll check out your link and see. What I have run across, but can't afford at the moment, is something called "Resperate," in which you and your husband might be interested. I'd buy it in a flash if I had the money:
http://www.resperate.com/us/welcome/...FYHt7QodiRNP9w
My diet is pretty good. Very low sodium and low fat. And now very low quantity so I can drop those pounds. I've been successful in the past every time I've wanted to lose weight, so I'm reasonably confident about being able to do it now.
It's true, and it's kind of strange, that there just aren't any symptoms. Nothing other than that reading on the machine. I have my own machine, of course, and take my BP three or four times a day. That could be part of what's "scary." I've heard on another forum that it could possibly be a symptom of clogging of the coronary arteries, which is something I'll raise with my cardiologist if the renal artery test proves negative. Well, you can only do what you can, I guess. Thanks for the sympathy!
