My health update

[supersuk]

add a two bananas to your diet a day. I was taking alot of excess sodium at the time (still am) and the potassium seemed to help a bit.

[nature boy]

that sounds like a lot of constipation.

[geForce]

So I've dropped 20 pounds since I started this diet. I'm on blood pressure meds, so I can't tell if this weight drop affects my bp readings or not though.

Still looking to drop some more weight though, maybe another 20-30 pounds. Still plugging along.

[nature boy]

blood pressure meds? seriously?

[geForce]

Dude, get with the times... I mentioned the blood pressure meds in the first post!

[nature boy]

you expect me to read all the posts? i can barely keep up with my own!

[geForce]

You sure replied to this thread a whole lot for not having read the original post.

[joel]

so the meds/combination of diet is your bp back to normal?

[geForce]

My bp was normal when I first started taking the meds. It hasn't changed after I dropped the weight.

[nature boy]

i just reread the thread haha, it's all coming back to me. sorry i was thinking about something else.

is there ever an end to the bp meds? i was told that if i go on cholesterol meds i'd have to take them for the rest of my life, so my doc was like screw that.

[geForce]

It depends on the cause of the bp problem.

Secondary hypertension is when the high blood pressure is a symptom of another health issue, like high cholesterol, kidney disease, being overweight, etc. You can take meds to lower the bp in these cases, but if you fix the primary health issue, then your bp will normalize.

Then there's primary hypertension where high blood pressure is caused directly by your circulatory system and is usually genetic. Things like narrow blood vessels or thicker than normal blood. In these cases, there's usually no way to fix the problem and you'll have to take bp meds your whole life.

Hopefully my weight issue is what's causing the high bp and I won't have to take meds my whole life.

[nature boy]

yeah, hopefully.
when do you go back to check up on it?