"I'm getting better!" "No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."

[captainsblog]

All in all, about as good a medical report as I'm likely to get from here on out.

Blood sugar, liver function, PSA readings? All boringly normal. Cholesterol hanging nicely, a good 15 points below the Mendoza line. The sounds of cardio and vascular were good sounds, no doubt helped out a bit by my having shoveled our front walkway and our side of Sally's, as well- some other Good Sammy had already snowblowed (snowblew?) the cross side of her corner-lot sidewalk.

Yet none of that was what I went there for. The BP was still running high, especially on the bottom side, so as of 12 hours from now? Hello, my name is Ray, and I am a Lisinoprilic.

It's just one a day, they're $4 Wegmans generics, they don't cause drowsiness or interfere with anything else I'm on, and I'm not supposed to even notice.  If that's all as advertised, I'll quite take it, thanks.

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Would the computers would stay as healthy.

I mistakenly selected the wrong online episode of a certain British television series and instead wound up with a nasty piece of Russian viral business that took quite a bit of effort to kill off.  Meanwhile, Eleanor snagged something awful from a fellow church member, of all things, and Malwarebytes was up all night cleaning her out, too.

Later tonight, I shall catch the Anglophilia in question. Hopefully HE won't come down with anything, but if he does, I'm sure he'll detect it;)

Comments

[greenquotebook.livejournal.com]

Are you taking straight-up lisinopril or the lisinopril/HCTZ combo? If it's the combo, expect lots of overnight bathroom breaks. HCTZ is a diuretic and, when hubby started taking it, he had to get up to pee so often that his sleep was profoundly disturbed. He went off of it AMA, worked on his sodium intake, stopped drinking, started taking walks after lunch and everything has been A-OK ever since.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

It's just straight Lisonpril, no combo platters.

And at my age, overnight bathroom breaks are just a fact of life anyway.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Plain old lisonopril is the shit. Waaay easier to tolerate than atenolol, which I was on for various reasons including blood pressure, before the dizzy spells got too bad. Lisinopril may sometimes cause a chronic cough, so keep in touch with your doc if that happens. (I may have a touch of that myself, in the wintertime.) Otherwise, it's pretty easy to deal with for most folks.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Glad the Dr. visit went well overall and hope the bp meds do their job.