High Blood Pressure

When taking blood pressure, sit quietly for a few minutes then take your BP three times and take the average.
I have high blood pressure and have my own meter. this was the advice from my GP he also said to keep a record of my tests which I did for many years. Although it's said that exercise brings your BP down it didn't make any difference to mine. I only take 2.5 mg so not bad. I am not aware of any diet that would bring it down.

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Have you been to your GP.? Maybe he would think you need meds.

I'm borderline Stage 1 so monitored every 6 months which I do with my own upper arm machine. I've manged to reduce my stress levels over the past 2 months and practising deep breathing and it's lower. Another thing I've altered is the chair I sit in to take the readings. On checking the guidance leaflet I was slumped with my heart lower than the monitor so higher readings may well have been false. I now sit in exactly the same place for every reading.

Sometimes mine BP is low, don't know why can somebody tell me what to do at that time?

What you should do is go to your GP.

High blood pressure can be caused by certain factors that are simply out of our control such as age, family history, race and gender, there are some key lifestyle choices that can help you control Blood Pressure.
Here are some option that will keep your Blood pressure under control.
•Consume food, which is rich in potassium like bananas and leafy green vegetable. Potassium helps your body rid itself of excess sodium.
•Flavonoids are potent blood pressure reducer. Berries are rich in flavonoids.
•Food rich with nitric oxide helps to open up blood vessels to lower blood pressure.
•Yogurt reduced their incidence of hypertension by more than 20%.
•Omega 3 fatty acids, which reduce inflammation, lower triglycerides and reduce blood pressure. Try Fatty fish like salmon and mackerel.
Try to control your blood pressure naturally instead of taking Blood Pressure Drug.

The American Heart Association recently recalled Blood Pressure Drug Losartan that contains cancer-causing toxins was supplied by Torrent Pharmaceuticals.

Sheena the blood pressure reading you gave was the same as mine when I went into the nurses room to have it taken during my regular annual check last week.

She was unphased. Took it again _5 minutes later_and it was down to 130/88. These figures are endlessly variable.

Sheena. I would be happy to have your readings and I am an 3 bp tablets!

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