The silent killer.....
POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Monday, March 18, 2013 20:55
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Hey AR.... Here's my trouble.... I work my ass off at work. Sure, it's only 8 bucks an hour overnight, but it's something to do, and with my borderline OCD style I give it my fullest. Even though I know that nobody has gotten a raise in 3 years and that I never expected to still be there now.....
That store is HUGE. I'm on my feet 7 hours a night pulling pallets and working product, moving this way and that. Wouldn't surprise me if I spent 20,000 footsteps per night there.
Bikerides are, at least, what I need. Without bringing my BP and BPM down, I'm afraid it might kill me.
Nobody would ever expect me to be a candidate for a heart attack/stroke at my age from the outside. I'm relatively young with relatively little fat on my body. Those readings don't lie though. Even if they are high, they're constantly much higher than even my older co-workers' readings....
No wonder the interviewers can sense my nervousness when I go for a good job....
Where most applicants might have a BPM of about 80 while dealing with "nerves" of a job interview, mine is probably at 110-120 since my "resting rate" seems to be about 80BPM....
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If your blood pressure is good, your BPM isn't that critical, or at least that's what everyone is telling me.
Some people, as mentioned before in this thread, have an abnormally high BPM and live ages with it. My grandma told me that she was told about her high BPM as a teen and she just turned 80 on Valentine's Day.
That's all the soothing I can give your weary brain for now...
If you have a non-hypertension reading for your top/bottom measurements, maybe you're just wired to have a high BPM. That in itself is far from being bad if everything else checks out alright.
I think you and I would be a whole lot healthier if the 90% of people who post here regularly were as honest about their own mental health deficiencies.
Regardless of what they say about them or they don't say about them... trust me Riona, we're far from the minority in this mighty band of... well... whatever we are...
It's not that they're liars. They just don't tell the truth about themselves here. It's not lying if they're not asked about it.
As you can see, I get a lot of abuse directed towards a lot of opinions I put out there now. Immediately, when somebody doesn't like what I have to say, they call me a mindless drunk. I don't mind.... It's not as if somebody else snapped a bunch of pics and posted them here to "ruin" me. I gave that information up myself of my own free will. It's up to them to decide how they want to use it, and it is indicative of their character if they use it against me with no other reason to argue a point.
You're all welcome for that free suckerpunch.... 
I'm much more self confident than I was in grade school, and I got made fun of much worse for being short and wearing glasses and having braces back then. I've also put my 5 or so years of beating the shit out of people using all of those years of pent up rage to hospitalize them behind me as well. They all deserved it, although I don't feel proud about playing the bully I hated while I grew up.
Don't let anyone bully you, ever.....
Most of the "bullies" I grew up with I ended up cool with because of following that one simple rule. One of them is one of my best friends today.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
My blood pressure is great. I can't concentrate hard enough to figure out my BPM on my heart, that requires counting beats and watching seconds which I can't do at the same time. But I assume its ... okay, though when I excert myself I think it goes higher than its supposed to.
Lots of good advice in this thread Jack, particularly from Kiki.
ETA: Okay I tried it and I think I came up with 91 beats per minute, which is bad I know, but maybe I counted wrong or something, its hard for me to watch the clock, count beats and breathe normally, and not breathing normally can cause a wrong count I reckon. So I'm going to try it again in a second...
Okay, that time it was 90, still not so good. But I've got bigger things to worry about in my opinion. I'm trying to survive my brain each day and that takes up all my health related energy. This is one of the reasons why people with mental health differences tend to die a lot sooner, because we just don't have the energy to worry about the rest of our body, our brains are worry enough.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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JACK- a high heart rate and moderately high blood pressure sounds like dehydration. Drink more fluids (beer doesn't count, water is best!).
Also, eat more fruits and veggies... at least three servings a day. Bananas, apples, prunes, carrots, oranges... whole food only, can be eaten raw. Their high potassium content will counteract the hugely high amount of sodium that you're getting with your pre-packaged foods.
Do those two things and there is a very good chance that your bp will go down in a month.
Also, as KIKI says.. pay attention to HOW you take your bp. Pee, sit still with feet flat on floor, be quiet and relax. Stress can make in go up... I mean, REALLY go up. My MIL (god rest her soul) would panic about her heart. Well, she had heart failure, so that was natural. She would aks me to measure her bp and I would read 240/120, but I would say something comforting like.. "Oh, not too bad, but I missed the top number. Let me take it again" fiddle with the cuff, re-iterate it was OK and take it again. In the space of one minute, it would drop to 150/90. Stress... really, really makes bp go up. So does drinking.
Good luck.
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As you can see, I get a lot of abuse directed towards a lot of opinions I put out there now. Immediately, when somebody doesn't like what I have to say, they call me a mindless drunk.
That's a fair criticism, and perhaps one I've been guilty of as late as we've engaged in this game of trolling and counter-trolling.
It is similar to what happens whenever I insist I'm a psychopath (which I totally am, but I'm not going to argue it now).
However, I do think that drinking MAY be contributing to your blood pressure problem. I also note that I've lost a number of family members due to similar circumstances - I've had an uncle and a grandmother drink themselves to death in the last two years, developing high blood pressure and clots and alcoholic dementia as a result of drowning themselves in vodka every night until they passed out. Sincerity mode on: I do think you have to make an effort to stop drinking so much, if only for your own health.
Ultimately you're the one who has to make that decision though, and so if this is bothering you, I can stop pestering you about it.
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I don't mind when you post about it Byte.....
You and Riona and several others post here and on my email about it from time to time and I'm touched. I know and believe that when you post something like this it's from a true place and not from a condescending position.
I know that you know that I need to change my ways. I know I need to change my ways....
I really don't see any reason to though....
Being "free" of all responsibility at 33 is a lot less glamorous than it would seem to be once you're there, unless you're a rock star.....
As much as I'd hate to put up with an outside voice bitching at me constantly, i'm sure the food I'd be inhaling would be a bit more healthy......
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I have to say 6ix, you draw lines around groupings that I don't draw.
Prime example:.a wife = constant bitching on the downside/ better meals on the upside. And from that I'm guessing there's a worldview and a whole set of assumptions that's alien to me. Though your either/ or reminds me of a joke once told about Einstein. As it goes, a gorgeous dancer approached him and said: we should have a child. It would get your brains and my body. To which he replied: Maybe it would get your brains and my body.
There might be alternatives you just haven't thought about.
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