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Right after surgery, I experienced a significant drop in my blood pressure. It got down to 100/70, so I stopped taking my lisinopril and triamterene. My blood pressure went back up to 120/80 and I was happy. I did not check my BP for a long time, because I felt fine. However, I decided to check it again for the heck of it, and discovered to my dismay that I have hypertension going on. My BP was 161/90 yesterday and 167/97 today. I resumed taking my meds yesterday, but it is frustrating. I have lost 68 pounds, and my BP is sky high! What's up with that?

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I've been on BP medicine for a few years. My primary physician, who is wonderful and sees me every 3 months, said I could get as skinny as anything but still need it, since it is hereditary and runs in my family. Could be you're just predisposed to high BP.

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Jordien,

Well, crap. I have hypertension, so I know how frustrating that is. One of my friends had VSG and her BP stayed high too. Not fair, is it? Mine has gone down at last reading (120/80) but I see I still need to monitor it. I agree with #50, it may just be the (bad) luck of your gene pool. My mother was hypertensive and not overweight, so mine may not stay down, either. Sigh.

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Well, crap. I have hypertension, so I know how frustrating that is. One of my friends had VSG and her BP stayed high too. Not fair, is it? Mine has gone down at last reading (120/80) but I see I still need to monitor it. I agree with #50, it may just be the (bad) luck of your gene pool. My mother was hypertensive and not overweight, so mine may not stay down, either. Sigh.

I'm still trying to figure out the BP thing too. I was getting very light-headed and stopped the lisinopril. I still have the metropolol, though. At my 5wk follow-up I had lost ~40lb and my BP was 120/80. Hopefully as the weight drops off your BP will come down as well. But it is very possible that we'll require some amount of meds for the rest of our lives. Keep checking in with your doc and stay on top of that BP. Good luck!

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I'm still trying to figure out the BP thing too. I was getting very light-headed and stopped the lisinopril. I still have the metropolol, though. At my 5wk follow-up I had lost ~40lb and my BP was 120/80. Hopefully as the weight drops off your BP will come down as well. But it is very possible that we'll require some amount of meds for the rest of our lives. Keep checking in with your doc and stay on top of that BP. Good luck!

I take Metropolol too, for a-fib. My doc said that if my heart stays pretty normal, he can reduce the med...don't think I can ever stop it though....it lowers the BP too, which is usually very low now like 100/74 (except when I go to the Drs of course!)

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I didn't have BP issues until after surgery. While in the hospital, it kept going higher and higher, like 162/90 range. So now I'm on BP meds, but my surgeon says that should go away.

I sure as hell hope so.

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I take Metropolol too, for a-fib. My doc said that if my heart stays pretty normal, he can reduce the med...don't think I can ever stop it though....it lowers the BP too, which is usually very low now like 100/74 (except when I go to the Drs of course!)

I have a ton of PVCs if I don't have the metropolol. Right now I'm at max dosage for that, but as the BP comes down then I'll start backing off that too. Hopefully at 1/2 the dosage I'll still get the benefits of heart regulation. fingers crossed!

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I have a ton of PVCs if I don't have the metropolol. Right now I'm at max dosage for that, but as the BP comes down then I'll start backing off that too. Hopefully at 1/2 the dosage I'll still get the benefits of heart regulation. fingers crossed!

Good luck with that!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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