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Suffering From High BP, Increased Pulse Due To Overweight
I am 66 years old just within these past two years people around me made non active because of their jealousy because of that I think I have developed few problems like unable to climb stairs High BP, heart seems strong, may be I am overweight but not sure, can't walk feel like legs are filled with lead. what should have caused this?
Mon, 29 Jun 2015
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The symptoms you describe may be due to higher blood pressure. I will suggest you to take pressure at different times of the day on different days and make a chart, if reading are on higher side consider medication. An alternative means is to get 24 ambulatory BP monitoring done and based on the report take a call.
i would advise you for lifestyle modifications like cutting salt in your diet to less than 3 gas, bringing regularity in life and exercise, atleast 45 mins 5 times a week. Keep on tracking the pressures at different time on different days. See what is the trend. At the same time get yourself evaluated for secondary causes of increased BP and if founded treat the cause. If this doesn't help anti hypertensive drugs in small dose should do the trick which at later stage we can gradually decrease and wean off if possible. Regards
The symptoms you describe may be due to higher blood pressure. I will suggest you to take pressure at different times of the day on different days and make a chart, if reading are on higher side consider medication. An alternative means is to get 24 ambulatory BP monitoring done and based on the report take a call.
i would advise you for lifestyle modifications like cutting salt in your diet to less than 3 gas, bringing regularity in life and exercise, atleast 45 mins 5 times a week. Keep on tracking the pressures at different time on different days. See what is the trend. At the same time get yourself evaluated for secondary causes of increased BP and if founded treat the cause. If this doesn't help anti hypertensive drugs in small dose should do the trick which at later stage we can gradually decrease and wean off if possible. Regards
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