Originally Posted by
Bcssf
I was diagnosed with EXTREMELY high blood pressure.. 155/109.
Glad to hear your BP has come down unmedicated - that's excellent!
I did want to chime in that I'm glad the doctor got you to act on your BP, but 155/109 isn't extremely high. I used to be a volunteer FF/EMT, and I remember one run rather vividly. We were dispatched for "fall", and arrived to find the patient with a nosebleed, and an unfortunate language barrier even with five people in the house. As a result, we couldn't determine where/how she'd fallen to better understand the nosebleed. One of our crew couldn't get a BP, and it turns out he wasn't going high enough. Someone else got it at 280/180, and that's when I learned that nose blood vessels are perhaps the weakest in the body. She was medicated, but the dose wasn't high enough to really bring it down (finances...). Turns out the local ambulance company has medical policies declaring BP >200 to be 'mandatory hospital visit' (the patient is declared unable to express consent/refusal).
Again, glad you took action: that's the best part of your whole story!