Posted by quilterlady on May 28, 2005, at 11:28:41
I'm new to this forum, found it doing a search for L-Tyrosine somehow.
Anyway, I'm a 37-yr-old female who is moderately overweight. Two years ago I went to have my teeth cleaned and they wouldn't do it because my bp was 213/120, high enough that they urged me to go straight to an ER! I went to a walk-in clinic and was given Altace and something to bring it down asap. I had to come back every afternoon for a week because they thought it was "white-coat hypertension" but it ended up being the real deal. I didn't want to take the Altace because I was breastfeeding our daughter so I didn't.
A few months later I had a major heart palpitation episode(first one I've ever had) and went to the ER. They recommended me to a internal medicine doctor and she put me on Vasotec(5mg). I've had NO side effects and my bp is in the normal range now.
I highly recommend the book, How to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 8 Weeks, by Dr. (forgot first name) Sinatra. Also, are you modifying your diet? My doctor wants me to watch my salt, some people with high bp are salt-sensitive, some are not.
There are some really good cookbooks that can help you add healthy meals to your diet. I cook a lot from Oat Cuisine by Bobbie Hinman, Cooking Vegetables the Italian Way by Judith Barrett, The American Heart Association's(AHA) Low-Salt cookbook, and Bean, Pea and Lentil Cookbook by Maria Luisa Scot, Jack Denton Scott and the editors of Consumer Reports Books.
Even though I've modified my diet, started exercising, started taking supplements(vitamin, mineral, herbal) and so forth, I am still taking my meds because high bp causes damage.
I hope you are doing ok with your meds, you wrote about taking them on May 20th. How is it going so far?
Molly, the new kid
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