My Personal Battle with High Blood Pressure Part 2...
Dear Friend,
Well, imagine how shocked I was when I found it to be 210/110!
Again that is stroke territory so I wasted no time starting myself on blood pressure medicines. It was time for the doctor to practice what he preached and to experience the very same issues he had been making his patients go through for over 15 years.
It was very strange to have high blood pressure. My family history was positive for this but not until the 70's. The only person I knew of in my family who had High Blood Pressure before me was my grandfather who had a stroke at age 52 from a sudden bout of hypertension ( high blood pressure).
While he did survive, and live to be 90, half his body was paralyzed for over a year...an image I'll never forget!
In addition to remembering my grand pop's stroke, I also had this strange feeling of vulnerability. I now had a 'disease'. I was no longer a young man.
My reaction to that was one of disgust and sadness...had I lost my youth so soon?!
Why had my body betrayed me. Like most people I drudged up every transgression I had ever committed against my body. Years of sleeplessness, caffeine, lack of exercise although by that time I was exercising a lot! All this stuff ran through my mind.
Worse the 2 blood pressure meds I had started did not control my blood pressure well at all. It was now 180/100.
So up I went to 3 meds then 4 meds, then a water pill which dropped my potassium so low I could barely function. Next came the giant potassium supplements big enough to choke a donkey.
All the while I was providing the lab with urine blood and other bits and pieces of my body to 'rule out a reversible cause'
I had renal ultrasounds and scans and CT scans and aortic ultrasounds and cardiac workups out the kazoo. Can you guess what they found?
Right!!! NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH ME!!!!
I simply had 'essential' or idiopathic hypertension.
To be continued.......
Dave Woynarowski, M.D., CPT
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