High blood pressure?
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a good pressure for your age is about 120/80 or 120/70.
You should focus on less stress, improving your food intake. Less fast or no fat foods. Cook your foods without adding too much fats.
Take a yoga class to lessen the stresses of your life.
Become more physically active and if you smoke quit.
You are way to young to be risking a stroke.
Take care of yourself, you don't realize how many people love and care for you.
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a little high for you, get urself checked plus try to lose a little bit of weight, then watch ur salt intake, if hypertension persists, u have to take anti hypertensive..
You may be developing diabetes. You actually can have damage to the retinas seven years before diabetes can be formally diagnosed. In the pre-diagnosis stage of diabetes, about 2/3 of all people actually have too much insulin in their blood. This usually causes an excess of cortisol as well, which reduces inflammation, but compromises your immune system, and causes high blood pressure.
The top number (149) is the systolic pressure. Normally, the systolic pressure should be between 100-120. If your body is stressed out, this number will rapidly climb. Some people have "white coat hypertension" which means that simply having their blood pressure read causes the systolic number to go up.
The bottom number (84) is the diastolic pressure. Normally, this pressure should be between 70-80. This is the pressure when your heart relaxes. Since yours is 84, it means your heart never gets to rest. Your heart won't enlarge rapidly at 84, but it will start to enlarge.
They used to say normal BP is 120 over 80, but they've found that even 120 over 80 is less than ideal. They used to largely ignore the systolic pressure, and only treat patients if the diastolic pressure is over 90. They've learned that this isn't a good idea.
Your doctor can treat your hypertension with a variety of drugs. Reducing the salt in your diet may lower your blood pressure. That's especially true of those with sub-saharan genes, who are more likely to have hypertension anyway.
The oldest and cheapest blood pressure meds are loop diuretics, which make you urinate more. Lasix is possibly the best known because it is given to race horses right before they race. Diuril and Aldactone are also popular ones. These drugs can deplete your potassium levels, so you need to eat bananas or maters daily, or take a potassium pill such as K-dur. Potassium pills irritate the stomach, so most people on these diuretics gobble lots of bananas.
Beta blockers like Inderal or Lopressor reduce blood pressure by telling the heart not to pump so hard. Inderal is thought to affect your memory and reduce PTSD if taken soon after a traumatic experience.
ACE inhibitors like Lotensin, Monopril, and Prinivil block a chemical in your body, angiotensin, that increases your blood pressure. Doctors like ACE inhibitors for most patients, but some patients develop a really annoying cough.
ARAs include drugs like Avapro, and Cozaar. Instead of blocking angiotensin, they keep angiotensin from sticking to the blood vessels. These are relatively expensive, but they seem to be effective without having many side effects.
Calcium channel blockers work by getting the blood vessels to dilate. Gee, that sounds like the best way to address the problem, doesn't it? These are the popular hypertensive drugs today. Names you might have heard include Norvasc, Vascor), and Cardizem.
Doctors commonly find that they need to prescribe more than one med to get blood pressure down. You wouldn't prescribe 2 calcium channel blockers, or two ACE inhibitors, but prescribing one from each of two or more classes would work, and many drugs already combine two classes. For instance, Hyzaar is Cozaar, combined with hydrochlorothiazide, a diuretic.
First thing to do is to cut back on salt and see if it helps. You may also find that a change in environment makes a big difference. I've had friends whose blood pressure improved significantly when they stopped smoking, when they got a different job, or when their mother-in-law died.
But that's probably not going to be enough to do the trick. You can work with your doctor to figure out what drugs are able to reduce your hypertension and not cause side effects (and one side-effect worth considering is the deflation of your wallet.)
I had migraines and headaches as a teenager, and then they disappeared. Once I reached 50, though, I found that missing a dose of my blood pressure meds would cause one or the other. That's not supposed to happen. High blood pressure is supposed to be "the silent killer".
But it's important to take your pills every day, even if you're preoccupied with other stuff. There's no Jenny Craig plan that will reduce the size of an enlarged heart - and as the Bee Gees used to ask, "How do you mend a broken heart?" The answer is, you usually can't. You die instead.
go to a doctor
that's not too bad, but it's to that point that you might want to be a little concerned and possibly get on a medication...
I'm 17 and a little overweight and I take high bp medication once a day...but mine was probably about the same as your when I was put on the med...
It runs in my family on both sides..and if I excercised a little more I'd probably be just fine...
Good Luck! =)
Yes, that is extremely high. That is considered stage 1 hypertension. That puts you at a higher risk for heart attack, stroke and other problems. You should get checked out by a doctor so that they can take the proper actions to lower your blood pressure to a safe level.
that's a bit high.
The risk of developing heart disease is substantially higher at that level than it is if you can get your systolic (the high number) down to around 120. So yeah, now's a darn fine time to start worrying about it.
At your age, you don't want to start taking BP meds, because once you are on them, it's a long-term proposition with many potential consequences. It's better to address it now, before you're up into the 160-200 range!
I'll list the key lifestyle changes (off the top of my head) that can make a huge difference. You probably know them intuitively, but it's nice to have others confirm them:
1. Reduce sodium to 1500-2500mg/day. This is actually pretty easy. Read the food labels and try to stay under 100mg per serving of just about anything. You can do without soy sauce, canned soup and some of the other salty things in life. And once you cut all of that out, your taste buds will adjust, such that overly salted restaurant food will seem *too* salty to you.
2. Add potassium, generally from fresh fruit, such as bananas and oranges.
3. Might you have sleep apnea. If you snore, it's worth checking out.
4. And then there's the tough ones: losing weight (see the DASH diet and the rice diet), quitting smoking (if necessary), getting more exercise, etc.
I recommend getting a home BP cuff to check yourself every morning. Check yourself while sitting in a chair with your feet flat on the floor and having rested for a few minutes. Keep a history. It'll help you figure out what does and does not work for you, and if there might be other factors (drinking caffeine or alcohol, for example) that impact the measurement.
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