Girls, why did this have to happen? Up until around my Forties, even if I was my most vitriolic, my blood pressure was always.....perfect. I was certain hypertension was something I would never have to worry about.
Then I started inching past forty, and so did my blood pressure. Not right away, just in slight increments, to designate me, a little high. Like, for example 140/98. Within the last five years, my cardiologist, whom I trust, has hinted that the time would come when I would need to be on blood pressure medication.
Well, darlings, that time has come. Suddenly, since May, I have been getting weird readings. Not so much on the top, but what concerned me more was on the bottom. Things like 139/104, or one time, 166/111.
What was going on? I was anxious in May about the colonoscopy, but I came through that OK. And things are just perfect at home...as usual.
So, I rushed to my cardiologist. He is trying me out on something called Benicar. I am to stay on this for two weeks, and monitor my readings. If the blood pressure goes down, this, or an equivalent, would be the one. If not I am to take for two weeks a 40mg type of something that starts with an A. I cannot recall the name.
We shall see what transpires. But who would have thought I would come to this,
The Baby Boomers were supposed to remain young forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Accupril 40mg?
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ReplyDeleteNo, it is called Azor.