Adpully's Journal, 18 August 2017

That's a great improvement all round! How are you feeling? Happy? Healthy? 

Yes very happy. My progress now is mostly about health. My BP continues to improve . For the last 2 months has averaged 109/65, before diet it was 137/81. Still maybe not low enough yet to stop medication. I am thinking about enrolling for a 10K run in the new year  

Have you had a recent medication review for your BP? I had mine last week and was told that with medication anything below 140/90 was fine (admittedly that still seems high to me). I was told to aim for 115/75 on medication then they would look at reducing my dosage. Just a thought - I know practitioners have different views and as patients we're all different anyway so it might not be applicable to you. Great to know you're happy with your progress - it's pretty impressive! 

Cheers for the input - I did speak to my doctor about getting off medication he told me to log BPs and go back to him - I have been doing that for 2 months with the average result above. There is daily variability but I do not understand how to add a trendline (it's on an old mac with excell emulator some buttons are greyed out) but it's clear both numbers are slowly dropping.  

OK I've sorted moving total trend line for BP and it shows that I have gone from 114/70 average to 104/63 in 55 days perhaps it's time to make a phone appointment?  

I would AD, but that's going on my doctor's advice for me. No harm in asking, though. I take 10mg lisinopril for my high BP - that keeps it around 135/85. I'm hoping to get it lower, of course. Take care!