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Help me. My fiance has high blood pressure and does not seem to care.?

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My fiance and I are both 27 years old, we have a beautiful baby girl together. I believe he has not gotten a check up in about 7 years. last week we were in the grocery store and they have a pharmacy with the machine to check your blood pressure, his bp was 180, but i dont know the second #. His mother died at 43 from a heart attack.He is 6 ft 3 in, and weighs 205 (swimmers body) but he eats terribly! He plays basketball and maintains good pysique but I am worried about his health! What can I do to help him. What kind of foods would contribute to bad blood pressure, and what should he eat more of? He refuses to see a doctor, so I can only do but so much.I want our daughter to have her dad for a long time, what can I do for him.

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He can't feel what high blood pressure is doing to his blood vessels. It does not make his nerves feel pain.

In the short run, he won't notice the effects. The blood pressure makes the blood vessel linings irritated and makes them susceptible to plaques. The plaques make atheroclerosis... that is heart disease and other blood vessel disease. Also the high blood pressure will ruin the delicate structures in the kidneys, causing them to leak.

This will take a while, a few years. The causes of hypertension can be various. It could be easily fixed with one simple pill with very few side effects. Or it could be something serious like blocked arteries to the kidneys. search "hypertension".

For diet, cut out salt. Switch to LITE Salt (read the lable-- Potasium Chloride is the ingredient. Use it sparingly, because some people feel it is bitter tasting.)
NO drive thru/ fast food/ canned/prepared food/.
Cut down on the fat and sat fat and trans fats.
Green and leafy foods and whole foods with the vitamins left in are the best.

Regular exercise helps, but marathon runners drop dead from heart attacks all the time. The high blood pressure weakens the blood vessel walls and makes them susceptible to the various diseases.

When I was 27, the most important thing to me would have been my sex life and my career.
After you have his attention ( before he falls asleep and after the first good round of sex for the night) you should let him know that an expert told you that high blood pressure of over 120 will lead to impotence.
......and also to minor things like heart attack and stroke.
Remind him how much you like to spend time with him in the sack and how good he is and just what a stud he is. AND how you would like to enjoy his company forever, but you are afraid that he could be hurting your chances for future happiness.

Ask him to get it checked out for your happiness. AND bribe him that you will have something special for him when he comes back from the doctor.

That is the only thing that works with us men. You have to talk to us in terms that we can appreciate. I'd say it is serious as a heart attack, but it is not. not today, but it could become that serious. Source(s): www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp
www.ash-us.org
www.about-hypertension.com

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If he doesn't care, get a big insurance policy so when he keels over you will be able to raise your daughter. You can't make people care about thing.
hi.. without knowing the bottom figure, do nothing
buy a home measuring electronic bp cuff
tell him to measure it, tell him if he wants favours.. he will do what u say

so pulse 70 - 80

top figure 100 - 160
bottom 60 - 90

these are good

pulse 100+ bottom figure between 90 and 120 - sure try some herbal stuff, and modify the diet

pulse 150+ or bottom figure 130+ its doctor time

If its bad, he should be on an ace inhibitor and calcium channel blocker, dont let them prescribe a beta blocker, thats for older people, but a common mistake....

if hes suffering from stress or anxiety. buy some valerian...

if his bp/bottom figure, are v high insist on a 24 hour heart monitor, and an echo and electro cardiogram
echo checks heart valves, electro, the impulses...
the 24 hour monitor shows a bunch of things, but, if his bp drops during sleep, hes stressed.....

try not to medicate, unless its really high
try valerian, to med the stress, if hes medium

my resting pulse was 160
my bp 190/140
6'8 280 pounds

im on meds as above..

depending on your daughters age, get her/train her to ask daddy if hes going to die, or ask him to go to the doc.. that would do it for me..... daddy... mommy says you might die...shes been crying.....
get a good life insurance on him ? ?