@Marie Mallery you should see if you can find a new doctor, or at least a nurse practitioner to help you. The difficulty in finding new docs for Medicare patients is why I suggested that the government start a system of Medicare/Medicaid clinics. It would allow Medicare patients to get continuous care and it could keep Medicaid patients from clogging up the ERs around the country. I think it could be done under the auspices of private clinics and hospitals if the Feds endorsed it by making payments quicker and easier for those clinics/hospitals, and the hospitals and larger clinics would get the referrals from those M/M clinics for the MRIs, CATs, surgeries and inpatient treatments. There could even be small pharmacies included to make prescription filling easier for less-able patients.
I think it helps when you have a medicare advantage plan, too. Our Devoted Health plan has a list of all the doctors close to us, and whether they are accepting new patients. Of course, you always have to call and make sure that they are, in case the status has changed. It makes it much simpler to find good doctors and see which ones are closest to where you live. Just as a side note, several of the nutrition doctor also recommend stopping grains and sugar , especially in processed foods, to control HBP. Dr. Gundry, Dr. Davis, and Dr. Berg have all pointed out the connection between insulin resistance and HBP, and they all pretty much recommend the same things, stop eating bread, or foods make with wheat, or other grains, or at least try it for a while to see if it helps or not. Both sugar and starches cause insulin spikes, which cause insulin resistance. If you are eating low carb foods, and getting your carbs from natural fruits and vegetables that have fiber to slow digestion, then you do not have the insulin spikes that creates the HBP. Dr. Gundry has 2 of his books on sale on amazon right now, too. They are usually almost $20, but on sale for only $1.99 right now. The books are The Plant Paradox, and Gut Check, which talks about the importance of the right “gut buddies” in our digestive system. They are both excellent books and worth reading, for anyone who is interested in learning more about keeping your gut healthy and preventing illness.
Don your right and we are looking for one. We need one soon for bloodwork and any test we may need. Like Jake chest pain and arm, it did stop but who knows if it will come back.
Thanks Yvonne, we will order one of his books tomorrow. I eat one cup oatmeal Bobs Red Mill organic every morning. I do watch sugar and bread usually one-piece rye open sandwich once a day. I pretty much stopped the crackers with fish peanut butter. I do pretty good with sugar working out with weights and diet. I'm sore all over just from cutting and pulling vines dragging tree limbs from storm to pile. Only worked an hour or so. But that medicine had me weaker than usual.
That is good that you are aware that starches raise blood sugar even faster than regular sugar does. My friend who has diabetes just does not understand that, and she worries about anything with sugar in it, but eats all the starchy foods she likes because she thinks that if they are not sweet, it is not affecting her. Over the years, she has had to take more and more insulin, but told me that she would rather take more insulin than change her diet to less starches, and now she is in a nursing home and will be there until she dies.
Yvonne I do realize that its the carbs not just sugar that raises BG. also for those like me skipping muscle building weights also has lots to do with it. Although I've never used insulin, if I skip upper and lower body workouts my sugar goes up fast. Last night it was 154 very high for me, so I lifted weights for about 20 min.s went down to 97. Sometimes only down to single digit over 100, '108-125. When I'm not feeling well or just worn out no sleep. I feel like crying when I have to get up and grab weights. Same thing for piece of cake, it cost me lots of weightlifting. So I study on do I want that cake that much! Also notice big change is stamina since my walks are shorter and not much vine cutting, pulling. But most meds make me feel bad so only med I take is baby aspirin for stents, or bp med if it starts going up. Restore you recommended will be delivered tomorrow. I cut back on salt, only making coffee half strength now it was. Like flavored water. but thats ok. I'm about to go for my walk, which will be later since it is getting colder. Its so hard in so many ways to be a old person!!!
Joy what from do you suggest, supplements, food or is there another way? Walking trail just now had my legs really tired and muscles calves and thighs ached. Really had to push myself to keep going.
Marie, foods just don't do it, one would have to eat TONS of high potassium foods at a sitting, and that is difficuult....I'm never without bottles of 99mg tabs or capsules to address too much sodium I've taken in. As a general rule, I like to see my potassium at mid range in labs....Enough potassium in the body can also help with fatigue.
For the MOST, allopathic doctors are DEAF and DUMB when it comes to nutrition and what is good for this and that........
Just about all of the regular doctors are that way with nutrition information. About the only ones who do study it are the ones that go on to write the nutrition books, and it is hard to become a patient for one of those doctors. We have nutritionists making up our food pyramid who do not care about health and doctors who do not care about nutrition.
Steven, I did change to Losartan, not much better, makes me very weak and muscle aches. I'm going to try the natural way and see how that works, if not I'll have to take the meds.
Ask you doc. I have been on Losartan for longer than I can remember. Before that I was so dizzy from the medication I nearly passed out during a business meeting. My doctor said we will try small prescriptions until we get it right and we did. Every person is different. PS . What do you mean the "natural way"?