Getting Old... High Blood Pressure Hypertension
I guess this is part of life, another phase everyone has to go through. When we were younger, very much younger, you start noticing changes to your body in your teens. You starts growing taller, hair starts sprouting at all the places the sun don’t shine, pimples... and you discover you are growing muscles... yeah great now you have strength.. strength of an adult, biceps gets bigger and you notice you dont get sick often. By twenties.. man, you feel you are indestructible. Healthy as can be, strong and so full of all the possiblities you can achieve. Everything is yours to take. Thirties sailed by.... a wife and family. Still feel indestructible and the good life will go on forever. By Forties, it creeps up on you.. you start to realize your mind is still like it is, but your body in no longer obeying your instructions... a game of badminton will require 3 days of aching rest. Then your eye sight starts to go blur... cant focus need reading glasses.
Well thats not to worst part, because your body is changing again, more like now its going downhill...
For me, there use to be some numbness and stiffness around the neck area, headache so a couple of Panadols will wipe the pain away, then from Panadol to Synflex.. until i went to the doctor for some run on the mill cold. You starts to notice something different when the doctor took your blood pressure, then she retake your reading again. Uh-OH.. not too good.
So now, i have High Blood Pressure or Hypertension. 140 - 105. Doc said the low ones is worrying, suppose to be 80-90. So i need to cut down on salt... a bit hard when kicap (soya sauce) is staple food that goes together with Chau Kueh Tiaw, Half Boiled Egg and Bak Kut The and exercises.
I am now on some medication, EnaHexal, suppose to control the pressure. It took about 3 months before there was any effect in lowering the pressure. My last reading was pretty good, now under control. But this drugs has a side effect, it make you cough. Yes cough. When I started on the medicine, the cough was just a little discomfort, now its like I am having TB or something, very dry and hard cough. Worse is, the cough happens usually at night. When you can disturb not only yourselves but those around you.
There are other medicines, but since the doc say it is effective for me and the cough will go away once my body get used to the medication.
A quick search on the internet mention the cough side effect as just cough, but I tell you, not this cough, its mother of all cough, literally squeeze all the air out of your lungs and sounds equally bad.
More importantly, I need the exercise… haha exercise….
-SC
Well thats not to worst part, because your body is changing again, more like now its going downhill...
For me, there use to be some numbness and stiffness around the neck area, headache so a couple of Panadols will wipe the pain away, then from Panadol to Synflex.. until i went to the doctor for some run on the mill cold. You starts to notice something different when the doctor took your blood pressure, then she retake your reading again. Uh-OH.. not too good.
So now, i have High Blood Pressure or Hypertension. 140 - 105. Doc said the low ones is worrying, suppose to be 80-90. So i need to cut down on salt... a bit hard when kicap (soya sauce) is staple food that goes together with Chau Kueh Tiaw, Half Boiled Egg and Bak Kut The and exercises.
I am now on some medication, EnaHexal, suppose to control the pressure. It took about 3 months before there was any effect in lowering the pressure. My last reading was pretty good, now under control. But this drugs has a side effect, it make you cough. Yes cough. When I started on the medicine, the cough was just a little discomfort, now its like I am having TB or something, very dry and hard cough. Worse is, the cough happens usually at night. When you can disturb not only yourselves but those around you.
There are other medicines, but since the doc say it is effective for me and the cough will go away once my body get used to the medication.
A quick search on the internet mention the cough side effect as just cough, but I tell you, not this cough, its mother of all cough, literally squeeze all the air out of your lungs and sounds equally bad.
More importantly, I need the exercise… haha exercise….
-SC
posted by HS & SC at
10:48 AM
1 Comments:
Hello brother!!!
When the mother of all coughs hit you because of a medication, it's time to re-think about continuing it. I was supposed to take it as well, guess what...after checking out the Net on the side effects, i've resorted to another form of medication..
It's called, quit stressing yourself no matter how bad it is and go on a more holistic way of medication. Start on lots and lots of celery juices and check out the fruits that helps to bring down the cholesterol and Blood pressure. You'd be suprise. It's a long term thingy but its better than the drug.
Gotta meet up soon ya.
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