Blood Pressure (update)
Well it's been a couple of weeks since my doctor prescribed me hydrochlorothiazide to lower my blood pressure. I just filled it on Sunday, and I still haven't taken it. What I have done, is upped my potassium intake through both natural foods and suppliments, pretty much cut sodium from my food (this is so much harder than it sounds) and drank a cup of lemongrass tea twice a day.
Did it help? Not really. It's still up at about 135-140 / 80-90. I even bought a home blood pressure monitor so that I didn't have to use the Sam's club or Target blood pressue kiosks. In fact Target pulled thier kiosks. I think my life partner said that Target claims it was because of liability concerns. I think it's cause they have the in store clinic now that can give health advice for a fee, insted of a free kiosk. But whatever, I got my own - suckahs!
So it still hasn't gone down. Like I said, I filled the prescription, but I'm super concerned that it will affect my training. Then I find out that this drug is on the prohibited list of USADA and USOC. I don't know why, I don't see a performance gain from taking it. If anything it may decrease endurance. And it's not like I'm contesting a national championship (or even a states at this point), and I doubt I'd ever get tested (I never had in the past), but there's still the knowledge that I'm taking a substance that is not allowed.
I called USADA to see what the deal is, but got a machine. They called back, but I was out. I called back, got the machine again. I think I'll email them. I tried calling the doc's office and the nurse said she'd check with him and get back to me.
The Mrs. and I still want to wait before taking the med, we're going to give the DASH diet some more time, and I don't know, maybe I'm even stressing out about it too much and that's raising my pressure. I guess I've got to place it in the creators hands, give it up to him, and not worry about it. But man that's hard to do.
Related: Monday 01/28/2008, Tuesday 04/08/2008
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Wednesday 02/20/2008 | 09:34 am
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