{"id":4853,"date":"2012-03-07T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/adjusting-the-bp-meds\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:48:53","slug":"adjusting-the-bp-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/adjusting-the-bp-meds\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting the BP Meds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sphygmo.jpg' alt='sphygmo.jpg' width='350' class='right' \/>The Good Samaritan Hospital Trauma Center in Phoenix had me wired up to the vital signs monitor after I was admitted following my <a href=\"http:\/\/reynosawatch.org\/minstrel\/2012\/02\/19\/channeling-humpty-dumpty\/\">Humpty Dumpty<\/a> experience. Thankfully, all the vitals looked good (heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen levels, etc.) except that my blood pressure was curiously lower than I would expect having not taken my BP meds that morning. Indeed, even after spending the night in the hospital, my blood pressure remained normal or a bit lower still despite having taken no BP meds for the second day in a row.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Wrist band blood pressure monitor showing normal reading<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Almost two weeks after the incident, I was at the Community Clinic to have the staples removed. During the visit, the Medical Assistant took my blood pressure. It was quite low &#8211; like 97 over 53. The PCP discussed this with me and told me to cut the meds in half. That was a week ago. <\/p>\n<p>I got out my little wrist band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sphygmomanometer\">sphygmomanometer<\/a> today and took several readings. The at rest readings were still a little low, on the order of 105 over 65, but with normal activity the readings looked quite normal. I am due to go in for another follow-up next week and will further discuss the readings as well as take my wrist model along to see how it stacks up with the clinic&#8217;s sphygmo-whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good Samaritan Hospital Trauma Center in Phoenix had me wired up to the vital signs monitor after I was admitted following my Humpty Dumpty experience.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medix","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}