Hey...what happened to your grandma? That's exactly what's been happening to my dad lately. Which makes me extremely nervous. He was in the hospital again a week or two ago, but they caught it early and were able to put him on medication to help it. Apparently with him it's a chronic disorder thingie. sigh. But anyway, that sucks, and it's scary to hear that. I hope she's doing all right now and they're taking care of her!!!
she is actually supposedly fine. she was supposed to go to mexico in a week or so, but has decided not to even though the heart dr at kiser told her it would be ok. she had been taking i think it is verapamil for her blood pressure. or at least was supposed to be taking it, but often forgot to take it. i don't know how long she has been on it, but my parents said something about them deciding in general that verapamil doesn't work well or something like that. but my grandmother's primary care person never changed her medications. so now that this happened and they are seeing that her blood pressure isn't being controlled properly, the heart dr put her on something else. which should work fine if she actually takes the medication
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My mom forgets her blood pressure medicine sometimes... and it is bad. My blood pressure was a tiny tiny bit high last time I went to the ob-gyn and now they're making me go back to get it checked again. It was 120/90, and 90 is "mildly high" for the bottom number... but see, I am totally scared of the ob/gyn, so yeah, big shock there. I really have nothing useful to say...
well, as long as they aren't doing the ob/gyn stuff they aren't so bad. unless you are meaning that you are scared of the person, not what they do. then that would still be scary. there are so many things that can affect your blood pressure, which is why it is good that they are having you go back to check it. most likely there was some un-normal reason causing it to be high that day (quite possibly the increased stress of not liking going to the ob/gyn) and so when you go back all will be fine, and they'll tell you so go home and not come back for a year. but there is the possibility of other issues, and then it will be good to know so that something can be done about it. so yeah it sucks, but either way it would be better than not going. hopefully all is fine.
My mom actually has a home blood pressure thing, so I've checked it myself a bunch of times since then, and it's always its usual low 120ish/70ish. Which makes me feel annoyed about having to go back so they can make their thingy say the same thing as my thingy says. I actually don't like my ob/gyn office because they are always really weird about my ADD and anxiety medications, and it bothers me. So maybe I'll switch. Also I swear to god they make me cry when they do the pap smear. I know it doesn't have to be that awful because once a nurse practitioner did it instead and it was unpleasant but fine - but the two doctors there who have done it have reduced me to tears. I hate doctors.
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I really have nothing useful to say...
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I actually don't like my ob/gyn office because they are always really weird about my ADD and anxiety medications, and it bothers me. So maybe I'll switch. Also I swear to god they make me cry when they do the pap smear. I know it doesn't have to be that awful because once a nurse practitioner did it instead and it was unpleasant but fine - but the two doctors there who have done it have reduced me to tears. I hate doctors.
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