I measure my BP once a week at work and have been charting it for the last year. I'm averaging exactly 120/80. I do have white coat syndrome. I measure in the high 130s, low 140s at the doctor's office. I just bought a home unit this past week and I'm high teens/low 120s over mid 80s.

 

As I look at smart medical devices out here proliferating, an interesting trend might be developing.
In the health care space there ar the haves and have-nots. ( no this isn't a bernie rant)
There are those who have caught the train and have insurance and enough wealth.
they get care but can also afford the gadgets, i.,e. smartphones, glucose monitors, BP monitors etc, that they can afford to stay healthy.
a smart phone isn't that much money, the quardio bp thing is under a hundred but if you near the edge it's a lot.
But it allows you to time efficiently and cost effectively manage your high blood pressure.
I can easily foresee the wired patient ™. You don't spend any time at your Doctors but you're their virtually.
Of course so is he because he's an AI application monitoring your vitals and sends an alert if anything is out of normal.
The insurance companies love it because it keeps costs down by early detection.
Cortana, Ok google, siri or alexa gently remind you to take your meds.
And your scale tells you to get of your fat @$$ and go for a run while your AI cardio ap monitors your arrhythmia.
In the end your garmin fenix 5 calls the hospital and says your dead.
it's a brave new world my friends.

 

"Alexa, I think I am having a heart attack. Please administer a defibrillator shock. Alexa, that didn't work. Please call the morgue."

 

113/67 with a pulse of 72, after three measurements averaged on my Qardio. That's a big surprise. If that's legit then I was probably suffering from low BP when I decided to quit the Lisinopril. I sure had the symptoms of low BP, I learned, after the fact.

 

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Sounds good, Patricia. Maybe your BP issues were related to your injury. Keep an eye on it! How's the shoulder, is that feeling better?

 

I can change my blood pressure all by myself with relaxation and controlled breathing. It isn't all that difficult.

 

Hmm. This morning the average of three readings is quite different. Today I got 145/99 with a pulse of 79. I'm going to do it again.

Lainey, Ricky broke his clavicle and he's doing well. His plate and screws went in 4 weeks ago but he's off ibuprofen even.

My injury was the foot broken in three places 2 months ago. I'm limping around on it and still have lots of tightness inside the heel if I lift my toes up. I figure it's torn soft tissue inside my heel/ankle so I try stretching it often during the day.


**EDIT** I did a second average of three readings and got 146/93 with a pulse of 81. Crap.

 

^ Yeah, that not good. Heart rate is pretty high, also. You should always take it when you have not been exercising or eating for awhile. Those things influence the reading. Morning hypertension does exist, so take it again in the afternoon. I took mine twice a day for quite awhile to see the pattern. Now with the meds, I take it about once a week.

 

I wouldn't get too excited about any individual set of readings for a few days.
Learn what your daily cycle is.

 

Thank you for your advice, Deb. I'll check it again today.