High Blood Pressure
Discussion
According to the many web sites high blood pressure is quit serious, leads to heart attacks, stroke, kidney disease and so on. A reading of 186 Systolic or above 100 diastolic could mean a eminent heart attack. I have friends and family in Sweden where when your first diagnosed you get admitted to a clinic and they run tests to see if they can spot a reason, in Poland if your blood pressure is high they send out an ambulance with a Doctor who will administrate medication, if they can't get it down they take you to hospital, similary in France.
Here in the UK the medical professions attitude to high blood pressure is indifferent.
High blood pressure runs in both sides of my family and so it is no wonder i got it about 10 years ago, I reIcall being handed a letter that told me it is not an illness. For ten years my blood pressure under medication has been stable but recently it has not. Past few weeks have had readings of up to 168/118, I looked at the NHS web site who advised seein a Doctor within 3 days. my last visit to the Doc I was told not to come back for four weeks!
Mum is 85 and has suffered high blood pressure for decades, she has had four heart attacks but in the last few years has not suffered any.and had a irregular heart beat, a recent ECGs show the heart is now working regularly.
However since Easter she has suffered high blood pressure in the mornings and low pressure at night. Two of our three GPs have been useless , one just tells her her heart is failing, the other sends her to the cardiology nurse who refers her back to the GP and has recommended the doctors put her on anxiety pills. The third GP has been more sympathetic but has treated her high blood pressure and has brought it down to 180/96 or below depending on the day.
Friday mum had a blood pressure reading of 226/109 in the morning, 111 refereed her to the GP but no GP appointments were available so saw the practice nurse who called an ambulance. The triage nurse questioned us why we come in, told mum that if we had come in by ourselves we would be sent to the GP but as we had been referred by the GP we would see a Doctor.
Junior Doctor (4 hours later) called a consultant who decided to admit her for a few days for observation. Saturday a ward Doctor discharged her but another one decided to keep her in hospital. her blood pressure fluctuated between 97 and 186 diastolic and on Sunday morning was at 179 when a Doctor told her, her blood pressure was acceptable and sent her home.
So back to the GP on Monday who gave her a higher dose of high blood pressure pills, currently it is 113/56
I have asked the Doctors and the nurse to refer her to a specialist but they won't
Here in the UK the medical professions attitude to high blood pressure is indifferent.
High blood pressure runs in both sides of my family and so it is no wonder i got it about 10 years ago, I reIcall being handed a letter that told me it is not an illness. For ten years my blood pressure under medication has been stable but recently it has not. Past few weeks have had readings of up to 168/118, I looked at the NHS web site who advised seein a Doctor within 3 days. my last visit to the Doc I was told not to come back for four weeks!
Mum is 85 and has suffered high blood pressure for decades, she has had four heart attacks but in the last few years has not suffered any.and had a irregular heart beat, a recent ECGs show the heart is now working regularly.
However since Easter she has suffered high blood pressure in the mornings and low pressure at night. Two of our three GPs have been useless , one just tells her her heart is failing, the other sends her to the cardiology nurse who refers her back to the GP and has recommended the doctors put her on anxiety pills. The third GP has been more sympathetic but has treated her high blood pressure and has brought it down to 180/96 or below depending on the day.
Friday mum had a blood pressure reading of 226/109 in the morning, 111 refereed her to the GP but no GP appointments were available so saw the practice nurse who called an ambulance. The triage nurse questioned us why we come in, told mum that if we had come in by ourselves we would be sent to the GP but as we had been referred by the GP we would see a Doctor.
Junior Doctor (4 hours later) called a consultant who decided to admit her for a few days for observation. Saturday a ward Doctor discharged her but another one decided to keep her in hospital. her blood pressure fluctuated between 97 and 186 diastolic and on Sunday morning was at 179 when a Doctor told her, her blood pressure was acceptable and sent her home.
So back to the GP on Monday who gave her a higher dose of high blood pressure pills, currently it is 113/56
I have asked the Doctors and the nurse to refer her to a specialist but they won't
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