DH is 55 and had a strange turn a few weeks ago. He woke in the night to use the loo and was severely faint for a few seconds. This happened on two consecutive nights.
He made an appointment at the doctors who took bloods and measured his blood pressure which was around 150/100.
He was asked to come back the following week, blood test were all fine but BP up again around 150/95.
Dr prescribed 1.25mg Ramipril to be taken once daily and advised DH to buy a home BP monitor and take a reading twice a day.
Most readings are around 140 -145 / 90-95. Still way too high.
This has been the shock that we both need to sort out our diet, neither of us smoke but enjoy a bottle of wine between us on a weekend. Our downfall is a Chinese takeaway every weekend plus a chippy tea during the week. Lots of sandwich lunches, teas with a biscuit or cake each time. I cook the usual curries, chilli, lasagne but big portions and always lots of carbs. DH weighs 14st 10 and at 5 feet 8 it’s too much and all on his stomach, he does walk at least 40 minutes a day, sometimes longer.
So, we’ve vowed to overhaul our diet and aim to lose weight but I have some questions if anyone with high BP can answer.
Is exertion safe? DH will and can walk much further than his usual 2-3 miles daily. Is this ok? (Is sex ok?)
Is it possible to see an improvement in BP by just losing weight?
Is it ok to have the occasional drink with high BP?
Anything else I should be very careful of? DH likes a hot bath after his walk some days, is that ok?
Will the meds bring it down? They don’t seem to be having any real effect at the moment?
Sorry fir maybe the stupid questions but this has shaken me up and I keep checking to make sure he’s ok and not about to collapse. He’s not returned to work in his factory job yet, I’ll be so worried when he does.
And Covid, I’m really now very worried about him catching that.
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DH has high blood pressure and I’m very worried. Any reassurance please?
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Extremecreme · 17/01/2021 22:22
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