@kate2357 @corita @walker @Trinity11 @LindaSal @hckynut + all
Deep gratitude for starting this thread and all the useful contributors!
I only recently started showing high blood pressure (and for the first time, elevated blood sugar, cholesterol). Although I was already plants, I cleaned out my kitchen of processed foods, high sodium soups (who knew?), started reading labels. Now on a heart-healthy plant diet. Also supplements, including ceylon cinnamon, Omega 3, Qunol for coQ10, and garlique (special version for blood pressure). Added morning/evening exercise.
It'll be 3 months before blood tests will usefully show whether I can avoid prescriptions or interventions.
In the meantime, this thread alerted me that I could check my blood pressure at home! It's important to get whatever feedback we can that's reliable.
Based on your recommendations (coming, in turn, from your docs) I got the Omron (which Amazon delivered the next morning at 7 am!). *Omron has versions starting at bronze, silver, gold, platinum.
** I elected NOT to coordinate with my cell phone, just take BP manually and keep a journal. Not sure I want my medical information on my cell phone. I'm doing first thing in the morning and later evening, to see patterns.
*** As one contributor mentioned, follow instructions exactly!
Gratitude, to all.
My last blood pressure test in the medical office was 138/88, late January.
Yesterday + this morning I was 125/69.
Thrilled.
Will be alert for fluctuations, but needed the motivation to keep with all the New Habits. It's hard to change behaviors.