Hi folks

Jean....my doctor has given me another lot of high  b. pressure pills to add to my usual ones.  Went there today and mine was 113 over 65...no wonder I was feeling odd:-(...but she insisted I keep taking them....i've felt a bit peculiar lately a bit dizzy etc.  now I know why(!

Can't you go to the local hospital?

Thanks everyone. It has settled now. For a while there I was more hyper than our Jack Russell Terrier. My meds have been changed and that seems to have helped.  We only have one medical centre here to service a large region. All of the local doctors belong to it and it only opens between Mon = Friday 9am to 5pm. No weekends and you need to book to speak with your doc 7 days in advance. I rang the Health Direct medical service but after about 10 mins of yes, no questions, with I can't accept any other answer Madam, they concluded that I should see my GP within 4 hours. Uh! I told you at the start there is NO doctor. Reply, I can't suggest anything else. Don't think that I will bother them again. Oh to live in the city.

Jean, I had excessive HIGH BP and it turned out to be my cholesterol meds.. twice! I has some worrying weeks but now my BP has settled to a moderate high.... nothing like it was. Check your meds are not doing this as a side effect. All the best 🙂

Oh Gilly, I have been there, I know how you feel.  Its a pest isnt it :-x

Darki I was a bit worried about you, good to see you are okay. I sent you a message, did you get it?

Open houses are horrible... I had the last one just before we gave our keys back... now poor Buddy my sister has them coming through at all hours and she is not a well girl. Three times in one week last week... she is arriving any min and I want to hear how it all went.

I am a bit restless but too tired to unpack. Visitors at parents place from tonight but I am not unpacking to make it look nice for them... they can visit and help me if they wish but I just will not make myself any sicker than usual.

they have to take me as I am.... beani model No 1

🙂

Evening gerries.

Not sure what my blood pressure is.

Dr Google helps with most medical problems.

Have a mate who takes prescribed tablets for high blood pressure.

He went back to the doctor -and had lowered his count back to normal.

The Dr said they are working-he said no -i stopped taking them!.

morning all.

'clearing showers' here....again!

poor people in NSW are doing it tough with the floods.

That's a really serious situation jean, not good for people with ongoing issues.  Is there an ambulance service within reason?  there should be and if the Powers That Be have not allowed for your sort of situation, or things like severe asthma, chest pain and a whole list of other potential killers, then there is something seriously wrong.

On Bruny a medical centre as you have but we also had two ambulances who could be called 24/7.  If the situation was dangerous at night we would transport people down to the ferry terminal where a Police launch would pick them up and transport them to an ambulance in Hobart to go to hospital...

During the day, if it was serious a helicopter was called...

There must be something there for you.  I don't like the idea that you have high blood pressure and you can't get help easily, someone's head would roll if you died due to that system as it is at present, and I would hate it to be you who caused the beheading 😞

agree with Darki Jean.:-x

yep 🙂

Hi folks   Jean....my doctor has given me another lot of high  b. pressure pills to add to my usual ones.  Went there today and mine was 113 over 65...no wonder I was feeling odd:-(...but she insisted I keep taking them....i've felt a bit peculiar lately a bit dizzy etc.  now I know why(!   Can't you go to the local hospital?

That is quite a low reading the an older person, which is why you were feeling dizzy

My OH gets reading like that and he has no history of high blood pressure.