Joke away, laughter is the best medicine. I take it in my stride as I am still here at 80 after having had labile hypertension since 2000. No one has yet found a reason for it or a drug to stabilise it but I continue my quest and chase up any new procedures and try to be considered for them. I get told that I am not a suitable subject or that my BP is not consistently high enough. Players cigarette adverts used to say 'It's the tobacco that counts'. Cardiologists say It's the average that counts.
My last 24 hour BP monitor average was 151/78 and that was on a day I did no walking and my wife had to wheel me down the hospital corridor as I had injured my knee the day before.
My final hope is the Hypertension Referral Centre I managed to get referred to this year. Perhaps my recent MR scan will show something.
Yesterday my readings were:
Morning 171/74 42
Lunchtime after being out 145/76 45
Evening 199/110 44
Bedtime 146/79 43
Today
Morning 170/90 50
Afternoon after being out 107/58 61
No rhyme nor reason and no pattern to it
people say there is a pattern to it but I have yet to find it, this morning I have has 2 crushed garlic cloves in cranberry tea with a slice of lemon, to be honest I hate garlic but it did.nt taste too bad.. this was not for my bp but for a rotten urinary tract infection that I seem to have developed, sure no one will come near me today except vampires but luckily halloween has been and gone joking again its what gets me through the day derek...
Helen, I have a friend who has repeated bouts of UTIs. After finding the cranberry juice of little help, she resorted to cranberry pills from the health shop and found them far more successful.
When I awoke in the early hours one morning last year with an obvious UTI of some sort (frequency, stinging, passing blood and uncontrollable trembling), I panicked because of having only one kidney and never had a UTI since childhood which led to a kidney being removed. I drank a glass of warm water with a few squeezes of lemon juice and waited for the surgery to open. taking a specimen with me. By the time I had the appointment and collected the prescription, all symptoms disappeared so I didn't take the pills. I was left wondering if the lemon juice in warm water immediately upon the arrival of symptoms could have nipped the UTI in the bud.
I hope you feel better soon and well done you with the garlic especially when you don't like it!
That sounds disgusting:-)
I take garlic tablets, green tea, cod liver oil and turmeric at different times.
Thank you Mrs O for your post I am away to make more warm water and lemon juice the symtoms have subsided abit that is really interesting, sorry to hear about your kidney being removed no wonder you panicked, uti.s should be taken seriously.. the garlic is strong can still taste it where did you hear about the lemon water as a remedy??
yes well when we have to take remedies it never seems to be strawberries and cream does it ha ha
You may have found a new cure!
It may be a cause rather than a remedy:-) I had a lot of UTI's prior to prostate surgery last year. One time I took a sample to my GP that he said was clear but a bit acidic. I said that we had eaten our first strawberries of the season the day before. He said, that would be the cause of the acidity.
Cranberries are also acidic. The surgeon told me not to drink cranberry juice after my operation as he said it would make my urethra sting evenmore.
From a lemon or lemon juice?
yes cranberry juice has lot of sugar in it aswell, my dad has a permanent catheter after 2 failed turps ops they tell him cranberry juice but he does.nt like it so is on a low dose antibiotic everyday well he.s not happy about it, but this has been going on for ten years. He was 90 last month but there is no doubt about the fact that the catheter has saved his life, never gets uti.s now he is on the low dose antibiotic.. by the way I used the juice of a real lemon,.. He used a speedy cath for a while but was.nt getting it all out and it gets infected,. can.t take cranberry if you are taking warfirin I don.t think..
how was you rbp when you had to go to the theatre for your operation on your prostrate my dad wad in the university hospital in Durham you have to walk to the theatre now no porters, he does.nt have high bp not even in hospital I not nice walking to theatre these days
Helen, I've been having a small glass of warm water with a few squeezes of lemon juice first thing in the morning for many years. I once read it was the Queen's beauty secret, so I thought what's good enough for the Queen is good enough for me! So having it at 4am in the morning when I awoke in such a state was just a natural thing for me to do. It could have been a fluke, but as lemon juice, although acidic, turns alkaline in the body then that just might have helped to restore the bladder from an acid to an alkaline state. Some months after this experience I again awoke finding I was shaking and wondered whether it was the start of another UTI. Immediately I tried the same drink and nothing developed.
Yes from a lemon, Derek. Read my post above about lemon juice turning alkaline in the body.
Thank you for that Mrs O it certainly is going to be my habit everyday, 4am in the morning can be a scary time if you wake in a startle about symptoms hope the lemon water does the trick, I get recurrent uti.s so I will drink that every am.... make sure if you put a slice of lemon in the water you wash the lemon first... was just saying how well the queen does for her age but they have doctors around them 24/7 have a lovely evening.
Sorry to hear of your fathers failed TURP's. I kept my enlarged prostate for ten years as I would not have a TURP. I waited for laser surgery to start and had PVP green light laser surgery in 2005. It was done on the Friday afternoon and I expected to go home the next day. As I was not voiding completely they kept me another night as I had a 150 mile train journey home. Everything OK on the Monday and I went to the races.
My prostate regrew and last year I had Thulim Laser surgery. Again I expected to go home the next day but I was still passing blood so they kept me another night and sent me home with a catheter in. I still get UTI's and prostatitis. I could not take Cranberry as I was on Warfarin last year but stopped it as it gave me joint pains. I did take cranberry this year when I had a UTI but as you say it has too much sugar in it.
My BP was quite reasonable each time I had laser surgery. Things like that do not worry me its like getting on a plane and everything is out of your hands. Most of the nurses on the ward I was in admitted to having higher BP than they should and most smoked. I had the PVP in Newcastle and they wheeled me to the theatre on a trolley. The urologist who did mine also works at Durham or is it Hexam. I chose Newcastle as they were one of the first to trial laser surgery. My urologist later did a massive prostate on a 92 tyear old as he said it is a very gentle procedure.
As they say, the answers a lemon:-)
We never buy lemons just use lemon juice from a bottle or a squeezy.
How much does the Royal Family's health rely on homepathy?
There was a snippet in the Mail the other day saying that years ago her sinusitis was treated by a homeopath with Malvern water and a homeopthic remedy.
Thank you, Helen. We use organic lemons, but yes still very important to wash them first, as with all fruit and veg. If we're having berry fruits and they're not organic I always soak them for a few minutes with a drop of vinegar in the water. But then I always was a bit of a fusspot!!
Yuk Derek, I really don't fancy lemon juice from a squeezy.