I did a search on hypertension on this site so it seems like I'm am not alone here and there is quite a resource to draw from. So perhaps I can get some idea what I am looking at with my situation.
I'm only 34, started swimming again nearly a year ago. Partly because I new I had high blood pressure, but mostly I started swimming for overall health and fitness benifits. Since then I have lost roughly 30 pounds. At 6'2" I now weigh about 200 pounds. I would expect that all this work would have some impact on my blood pressure. Especially since I rarely drink, and my diet isn't terrible. I generally eat healthy meals. But the sad truth is that it hasn't changed. Nearly a year ago my BP was 140 over 100. This week... The same. Absolutely no change!!! As a result, my doctor put me on Lisinopril, an ACE inhibitor. So naturally I concerned about a few things.
1. Does this mean I will be taking BP medication for the rest of my life?
2. How will this impact my swimming/ability to train? is there a better medication that I should ask about so there are not adverse effects?
3. Do I need to start taking things easier in the pool?
4. Since I have a family history of hypertension does this mean there is really nothing I can do aside from medication?
5. Anything else I need to be concerned about?
Thanks in advance for any advice or helpful comments.
Kevin
I am wondering if any of you have been diagnosed with ISH, or isolated systolic hypertensions. Based on a number of readings over the last couple weeks, I feel I may have this.
Like most swimmers, I want the problem to just magically go away, or barring that, yield to a cheap but effective treatment that won't slow me down in sprints of distance swimming, or leave me to brain addled to do my job.
If anyone knows about this condition, which doctors worry about more in patients over 50 (I am 57), please check out my vlog and lease a comment there--advice, non drug intervention, drug intervention, what have you.
I don't know if ISH is treated differently from mo
re normal high blood pressure (where both numbers are elevated.)
Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.
forums.usms.org/blog.php
I am wondering if any of you have been diagnosed with ISH, or isolated systolic hypertensions. Based on a number of readings over the last couple weeks, I feel I may have this.
Like most swimmers, I want the problem to just magically go away, or barring that, yield to a cheap but effective treatment that won't slow me down in sprints of distance swimming, or leave me to brain addled to do my job.
If anyone knows about this condition, which doctors worry about more in patients over 50 (I am 57), please check out my vlog and lease a comment there--advice, non drug intervention, drug intervention, what have you.
I don't know if ISH is treated differently from mo
re normal high blood pressure (where both numbers are elevated.)
Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.
forums.usms.org/blog.php
