• tygerprints
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    29 months ago

    My hypertension is through the roof, the problem with it is, it’s usually too high for medical instruments to measure. I can’t take blood pressure meds because they upset my GI tract to the point I can’t digest food and I end up in the hospital. So, I have to learn to live with it.

    I already suffer from dry throat so severe it wakes me up in agonizing pain most of the night, so CPAP therapy is out for me. Maybe I should try the self-chloroforming option that they used to use in the old west for sleep problems.

    • @Chemical
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      29 months ago

      They make a clonidine patch. You may have significant gastritis which prohibits you from taking pills, might have that looked at. For the dry throat, they make a nose fitting for CPAP but now also have a device they install for the airway. There’s always a dental appliance as well but data is not as good as compared to CPAP. Let me know and maybe we can figure this out. Need that BP controlled

      • tygerprints
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        29 months ago

        I do have significant gastritis, including eroded esophageal rings from too much acidity in my gut. I have a GI doctor but after extensive testing, he hasn’t found anything to explain my gut pain and constant gut distress.

        I do need to get my BP controlled somehow, but the pills make things “down there” much worse. I’m not sure what alternatives are out there. I need to get back to a general MD and find out if something else is possible.

      • tygerprints
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        19 months ago

        Tried it but it really never did much for me (plus honestly I can’t stand the smell of it).

        I’ve tried sleeping pills also, and i’m not sure what’s supposed to happen, but it doesn’t.