Scary blood pressure and arthritis issues

January 5, 2011

Hello everyone

I hope no one is having as much trouble as I am right now. Several weeks

ago we went back to the pain doctor. She has always tried to get me relief

without tranquilizing me. Apon arrival we went to get triaged. (weight height

temp. Etc.) Height, good, weight, good, temperature, okay, blood pressure. So

the first time the lady took my blood pressure she looked at and shook her head.

Then asked me to uncross my legs sit up straight and not to move and in ch or

talk at all. She took it again, and then again. Her eyes were correct 85/44 I

should be at least 95 - 100. It figures that somehow CVS had told us to apply

the patch for my clonindine daily, not weekly. We thought I was getting too much

medicine. So we stopped the clonindine and went on tramadol. We also went to WAL

MART to get a BP monitor. The past few days it has been super low sometimes

dropping in the low 70's the lowest was 74/44 with a pulse of 80. We went to the

pediatrician yesterday

she thought that drinking Gatorade and lots of activity would help. I am

playing with my puppy outside and drinking TONS of Gatorade but the blood

pressure seems to go up to 100 only after activity or food and after an hour it

starts going back down. Not to mention the awful pain from the arthritis. The

problem is we have to be so so careful with the pain meeds because of the BP

problems. We have no clue what to do. I was wondering if anyone out there has

had any problems like this. We keep contemplating checking in to the hospital,

but the hospitals in my town tend to just drug you up and send you home.

Please help

Shea

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