Re: Or Piles - Sunday 11/12 + Mon 12/12

BrritSki wrote:
> Andy Minter wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:07:42 +0000, Nick Atty
>> <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:25:48 GMT, "Steve Brooks"
>>> <steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>>>
>>
>> We are allowed to take our own BP using a new toy they have at the
>> surgery. You just go in, tell them you're there, then sit down and
>> worry about it for ten minutes while all the phones go, people rush
>> back and forth and the children in the play corner throw bricks at
>> you. Then when you're nicely worked up you can use the machine and
>> give them the ticket it's printed out.
>
> Most people's BP rises just by going to the doc in the first place.
> And it elevates when you're talking too.
>
> I now try to enter a quick meditative state whenever I'm have mine
> read - I'm sure my impressive results in getting my heart rate back
> to normal after a stress test on a treadmill (when I did that every
> year or so in a health check) was at least partly due to doing this
> too.

The Bolton Hospital Treadmill does little to help my BP due to them having a
Crash Cart ready next to it


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