Blood Pressure, Anyone?

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if you are taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack and are concerned about bleeding issues (both external and internal), then you should not be taking either a regular aspirin or a baby aspirin daily because their doses are too large for your needs. to prevent heart attacks, all you need is an aspirin with a dose of 81 QD. this low dose is sufficient to prevent heart attacks. ideally, it should have an enteric coating so that it's easy on your stomach. the lower dosage and enteric coating will help prevent internal bleeding issues.

Have you considered the possibility of an undiagnosed thyroid condition? High blood pressure, fast heart rate and palpitations sent me to the doctor thinking I had a heart problem but it turned out to be thyroid. I've been on BP drugs with/without a beta blocker but while my BP is great, the other problems have proven themselves too stubborn to calm down AND after more than 2 years of fighting the good fight, Friday morning my thyroid and I are going our separate ways!!

I've read that some theories suggest thyroid imbalances can be present in a person's body for an average of 17-20 years before anything shows-up on blood tests. The best thyroid doctors are said to treat symptoms, not numbers.

When people talk about being lethargic, daytime sleepiness, unbearable fatigue, depression, lack of concentration, weight gain or weight loss, and other physical symptoms you can find by Googling "Thyroid Diseases" and medications you're prescribed don't work, you might talk to your doctor about your thyroid. The thyroid is our body's grand control center - if anything isn't right, I'm not sure any medication or treatment can be totally successful.

The #1 test given to patients entering mental institutions if usually thyroid - many have undiagnosed/subclinical thyroid problems. Countless criminals in prisons have been found to have undiagnosed thyroid issues.

It's worth pursuing. My cardiologist says when I get my thyroid removed and get stabilized on the inexpensive supplement I'll have to take for the rest of my life, my heart symptoms will resolve themselves.

Actually, I'm not taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack. I'm taking it to thin my blood to help prevent a stroke. People with AF are at high risk for stroke, and aspirin therapy is the lowest level of prevention. I once thought that 325 mg seemed high as so many people take only 81 mg (but perhaps for other indications?), but recently I was reading the conclusions from a meta-analysis of evidence-based studies on this issue and saw that people with AF (even paroxysmal like me) who are under 65 years old with no other risk factors are recommended to take 325 mg aspirin daily. So I guess my cardiologist reads the literature.

Finally got the lines of communication open with my cardiologist, family doc, and ophthamologist. Today I was given the green light to stop aspirin therapy for 10 days so that I can have the eye surgery. Yay!