Apparently Ivermectin triggers remyelation. Add thisbto the list.
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Thank you! At the eye doctor and the dentist, they now take BP, the only places I've had it checked, and they use digital. I bought a BP monitor to check at home, of course digital, and it reads the same or worse. On top of that, I noticed something with the digital BP monitors that I never noticed with the old style, which is that they can make my heart start pounding. With your input, I'm throwing the home version in the trash ($20 down the drain, but at least I got some AAA batteries for my trouble), and I'm telling the eye doctor and the dentist they can check my BP if they want, but only with a manual device.
Another way I think it's being perpetuated is that for 18 years I transcribed medical reports and I seem to remember somewhere along the line they lowered the values for what is acceptable (just as they did with the BMI). On top of that, we only know what the medical industry decided to tell us is 'normal', and who's to say their values were ever valid to begin with?
You're welcome. Yes! You may have to bring your own manual BP device. I stopped using a rather fancy digital device that cost me over 100 bucks, but it was garbage. They did lower the standard for normal BP. Used to be 120/80 but now that's considered borderline high. Gotta prescribe those meds for big Pharma or no nice kickbacks.
I must be remembering when they lowered it to 120/80 because there was a time that doctors were satisfied with 130s to 140s over 80s to 90s.
Yeah, now that would be considered quite high. The scams just keep popping up.
Something I wondered about this morning, and I don't expect you to know the answer, but you might have some insight. They say that high BP is a precursor to stroke. but what if high BP is often associated with a stroke because it's brought on by a stroke? My grandmother never in her life had high blood pressure, but she had a debilitating stroke. I don't trust the medical system to know the truth of this, nor to tell us if they did, but it's an interesting question (or at least I think it is).