A Serious Question About My Health!

Ron · #1 07-14-2007, 12:33 PM

Hi everyone. I went to the doctor for a check up on my foot yesterday and he said that everything is proceeding fine, then he changed the subject to another issue about my health.

He said that I was in there last November about mu High Blood pressure than he asked to check it again. It was high. Steadfast kinda high.

Las November I was driving along in the car and I felt I heard God's still small voice saying, "so you're going to give up without a fight?"

I felt at that time God was seeming to say that I didn't have to live with High Blood Pressure.

Now my doctor is trying to put me on high blood pressure medication, but when I go on them they are not so easy to stop.

What say you?

On the one hand I don't want to have my kids be fatherless, but at the same time, I don't want to get entangled with High Blood Pressure Medication that in itself is expensive and awkward but also may find it hard to get off of, I also don't want to be a Heart Attack/Stroke statistic either.

He ordered some blood work and some other tests in the meantime.

Any advice-I am open and listening.

I will be out for most of the day but will check back later.

Thanks.

BoredOutOfMyMind · #2 07-14-2007, 12:35 PM

Ron,

Blood pressure is a silent killer. You never knew you had problems until too late.

LaGirl · #3 07-14-2007, 12:36 PM

Do what the doctor says....

LaGirl · #4 07-14-2007, 12:36 PM

first lets pray your blood work comes out normal!

Sister Alvear · #5 07-14-2007, 12:41 PM

You are trusting God even though you may take a blood pressure pill... God expects us to take care of His temple. We go to the dentist wear glasses so why not keep our blood pressure down if we can?
There are natural things you can do along also such as watermelon, cucumbers and things like that...look on the net for ideas but I would also take the medicine and work with natural products. Brother Alvear has very high blood pressure and I worry about him and make sure he takes his pill the first thing every morning.
The work needs him and we need him!

mizpeh · #6 07-14-2007, 12:41 PM

Pray, fast, have the elders lay hands on you and anoint you with oil then have your B/P rechecked

Sister Alvear · #7 07-14-2007, 12:42 PM

I will ask prayer for you at our meetings here.

rgcraig · #8 07-14-2007, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

You are trusting God even though you may take a blood pressure pill... God expects us to take care of His temple. We go to the dentist wear glasses so why not keep our blood pressure down if we can?There are natural things you can do along also such as watermelon, cucumbers and things like that...look on the net for ideas but I would also take the medicine and work with natural products. Brother Alvear has very high blood pressure and I worry about him and make sure he takes his pill the first thing every morning.
The work needs him and we need him!

Yea, what she said!!!!!!

RandyWayne · #9 07-14-2007, 12:51 PM

.....and most blood pressure medication works very well. The most common reason for it NOT working is because people don't take it consistently.

As to being difficult to get off of, why would you want to? Generally, high blood pressure, if you have it, is always going to be with you.
I myself am taking Levoxyl for a barely functioning thyroid. I will probably be on it, unless something better comes along, for the rest of my life because whey I STOP taking it, my energy level drops by about 75%.

My father-in-law is a classic case. He went to the doctor once and his blood pressure was so high that they didn't let him leave! This of course made him go into a rage, but the doctor and nurses stood their ground. (He is a stroke victim who just happens to still be standing upright.)
He 'remembers" to take his medication every other day or so..... And even that is probably the only reason he is still alive now. (He's only 63 and repeatedly says he's going to live to 95 because "well, let me tell you! Our family tends to be very long lived!" to which we look at each other and try not to laugh.

Pressing-On · #10 07-14-2007, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

You are trusting God even though you may take a blood pressure pill... God expects us to take care of His temple. We go to the dentist wear glasses so why not keep our blood pressure down if we can?
There are natural things you can do along also such as watermelon, cucumbers and things like that...look on the net for ideas but I would also take the medicine and work with natural products. Brother Alvear has very high blood pressure and I worry about him and make sure he takes his pill the first thing every morning.
The work needs him and we need him!

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

Yea, what she said!!!!!!

And what they said!!!

Obey the doctor and change some eating habits and see what happens.