Re: Or Piles - Sunday 11/12 + Mon 12/12
- From: "Steve Brooks" <steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:21:48 GMT
Nick Atty wrote:
> "Steve Brooks" wrote:
>
>> The moment I hit 40 doctors were falling over themselves to measure
>> my blood pressure. And now I take three pills every morning. :-(
>> I suspect there are now targets for such things.
>
> I'm sure there are.
>
> A few months ago my father collapsed - complete fall from fully
> conscious to unconscious on the floor. Obvious panic for my mother.
>
> Ambulance, hospitals, checks etc. Eventually they decided that all
> the pills they've been force feeding him for his blood pressure had
> done their job and lowered it so much it didn't reach his brain.
>
> So they put a computerised monitor for a couple of days that showed
> that when he wasn't being sat in a chair, cuffed up and threatened
> with more pills if he didn't behave, his blood pressure was fine.
>
> He is no longer on them.
Snap! Except that my Dad is still on some - different - BP medication.
I wonder how long it'll be before it's discovered that medicalisation and
over-treatment of what is, after all, only a risk factor has done more harm
than good. Which reminds me, where's my new pack of felodipine?
--
SB
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