Blood Pressure Issues

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Registered: 05-17-2001
Blood Pressure Issues
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Wed, 02-13-2008 - 6:04pm

Aside from the blood sugar stuff (I'll know my a1c in a day or two) now I have blood pressure problems.


I have had high bp and was in meds before getting preggo.  I had to go off them, but Friday at my OB apt. it was high again.  So OB put me on Labetolol (sp?) and said it was a cousin of the atenolol I was taking for rapid heart rate before.  I was put on a low dose, 100 mg to start.


I took one 100 mg. pill and within about 1 and 1/2 hours I had passed out for a few seconds.  It took me  a while to get back to normal and I had a headache and was very tired the rest of the day.  Good thing I was sitting down.  But they also think I was dehydrated, so I'm on a manditory 80 to 100 oz. of water.  Omg, like I don't have to go enough as it is!!  :-P


I talked to my OB and he said to take 1/2 a pill and monitor my bp.  I got my dad's machine and took it twice now.  Both times it was 148/80 and my pulse was 100.  My pulse is almost always high, but not quite that high.  I'm going to take it again in another hour or so. 


I'm just confused.  I took a whole pill, too low.  Take 1/2 pill and still too high.  Blah!

~Misty~


 


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Registered: 05-17-2001
Sun, 02-17-2008 - 2:35pm

My dad is on Lipitor and he can't eat grapefriut anymore.

~Misty~


 


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Registered: 04-03-2003
Mon, 02-18-2008 - 12:43pm

"As I understand it your trusty body, will when you are not drinking enough try to hoard what it gets, "

Yup - and the same goes for calories which is why crash dieting doesn't work. Your body will slow its metabolism down to hold onto calories if you don't get enough to function properly. That's why (for women) under about 1200 calories per day (unless you're tiny to start with) is too low. A good rule of thumb (got this from an article but danged if I can figure out where it was) is to multiple your target weight x 10 (if you're basically sedentary, x 13 if you are somewhat active, and x 15 if you are vigourously active as in multi-hour workouts every day, work in construction/manual labor, that sort of thing). By setting it to your target weight, you'll be setting yourself into a pattern that you can maintain permanently that will cause weight loss to start then stabilize as you near your target. By the time you reach a 'maintenance' level, you'll already be used to eating just that much! It's not necessarily a fast weight loss but it is a constant steady safe loss that becomes lifestyle habits.

--Deb

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Mon, 02-18-2008 - 12:45pm

Across the board statin use (cholesterol lowering meds) for diabetics is for cholesterol, cardiovascular -and- kidney protection.

--Deb

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