Posted by FrequentFryer on September 3, 2008, at 10:49:00
In reply to Re: HELP PLEASE! MAOI and high blood pressure » FrequentFryer, posted by Nadezda on September 3, 2008, at 10:31:56
> Desolationrower is right that a lot of people have higher BP at the doctor's office and at the chemist's (did he measure your BP personally, or was it a machine?).
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> It's important to monitor your BP at home for a few days though to see it if's really that high. If it is you do need to do something, maybe cutting down on the Maoi, if that's causing it.
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> When my BP went up that high from parnate (which it did a little at the very beginning) my pdoc definitely would have taken me off it. Actually, it wasn't that high-- it was more like 150/90-- which he said was too high if it was ongoing.
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> It could just be an artifact of where you had the pressure taken though. I'd buy one of those home BP devices, and take it three times a day for several days and see where it levels out over that period.
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> NadezdaYep good call.. Thats what I'll do & decide what to do from there.
As I said in my previos post this Doc was being pretty rude for some reason and it did upset me a bit... But I wouldn't say he was litterally making my blood boil.
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