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Q: I have done all the right things: lost weight (over 50 lbs) excercise twice of a day. Six weeks after I started using RESPeRATE, my blood pressure dropped below 90/60. I reported it to my cardiologist and he took be off my meds (50/12...
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Q: If I do my slow inbreath, slow outbreath procedure my blood pressure goes down to just over 12. If I don’t it’s up around 15. so, if i do enough of the slow breathing, logically, I should be able to keep it down?
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Q: My systolic pressure is particularly high. Is there anything I can do which specifically addresses this? I take Dilt (generic Cardizem CD) daily, am mostly low fat vegetarian, exercise 4-5 days per week. My blood pressure is typically 140/70. Until my 50’s, my blood...
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Q: I am a 57 year old male. My doctor recently put me on Exforge 10mg*/160 mg for my high blood pressure. This medication has blurred my vision an really effecting my vision in other ways. What is going on here? I see my doctor...
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Q: I get nervous when approached with taking my blood pressure. The first reading is always extremely high. Yet, I find that if I am distracted, (i.e. watching an interesting program, laughing, reading a great book) while i take the reading my numbers are much...
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Q: I exercise daily, watch diet, eat very healthy – wife a nutritionist – take threee blood
pressure medicines by a great Dr. who lowered it to 135/93 best ever in 10 years –
still not low enough without ending my love life at 60...
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Q: What is the physiology behind the deep breathing biofeedback exercises? Is it the breathing stimulates the corotid chemorecetors registering an increase in O2 levels kicking in the parasympathetics to relax the smooth muscles in the arterial walls?
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Q: I was diagnosed with Pulmonary Hypertension about 6 months ago, (but I knew something was wrong before that, and went to 5-6 Dr.s I was told I had mild COPD, but after 2 heart cath’s , and many other tests, Univ. of Florida Pulmonary...
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Q: A few months ago, my BP was averaging 160/90, now with Resperate it is around 130/65, however I am also taking Amlodipine 5mg. Can I stop taking the medication? I am 72, and apart from BP and high cholesterol, I am generally fit and...
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Q: I’ve just begun to use Resperate. When I’m on my exercise bike, is it OK to breathe in slowly, then breathe out through pursed lips to prolong exhalation? Is it OK to do this in other situations where I tend to tense up?
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