Crazy medicine

My personal experience: when my BP is high I simply ask my young son (7 years old) to sit beside me and talk to me. He always cheers me up and makes me laugh. It always works to lower my BP.

Doctor, you deliver such excellent information about the heart in such an elegant and articulate way. A delight to listen to you... you always seem to exude a sense of hope and positivity in all you say..

It's unfortunate that we have ended up like this, in all walks of life. Noone seems to care any more. How have our lives become so busy that we have no time to think anymore. Dr Gupta, you're a rare find.

Such common sense! Why are so many doctors today lacking it? I tripped and fell and hurt my knee badly. I’m in my late 70’s. I went to my doctor to get an x-ray. The nurse sat me down in a busy hallway with people bumping us as they passed, and immediately took my blood pressure. I was sitting on a bench. My feet barely reached the floor, my arm was unsupported, and there was nothing for me lean back on. She told me as she was checking me to hurry up into the exam room when we were done because the doctor was very busy and was “squeezing” me into the schedule. Then I sat for 1/2 hour in pain, anxiety mounting. The doctor finally came in with my notes and said, “What’s this? Your blood pressure is too high!” It was 141/70. I said, “Well, four things: I have white coat syndrome, so my bp goes up in the doctor’s office, I’m in extreme pain from my injury, this is a high anxiety environment, and the nurse didn’t take my bp properly.” He said he didn’t believe in white coat, and his nurse was just fine at her job. Then he pulled out his Rx pad and wrote me a prescription for Lisinopril. He turned to go. I told him I was there to have my knee looked at. He took one look at my swollen knee, wrote another prescription for 600 mg. Ibprophen 3 times a day and said the ladies at the counter would schedule an x-ray and another appointment. I got the prescriptions filled and the x-ray. I didn’t take the Ibprophen because I though it would destroy my stomach. The tablets weren’t scored, so I couldn’t cut them, which meant I went back to the otc capsules of 200 mg twice a day. The Lisinopril was another story. I took it for a week and have never been so dizzy and lightheaded in my life. I constantly felt like I was going to pass out. My home bp monitor said my bp averaged 71/40 that week. I got a bad cough. I quit the Lisinopril and my bp went back to my usual average of around 110/60. Then I took my x-ray and went to a new doctor. What a miserable waste of time. The protocol seems to be list the symptoms and then order some pills. Pay no attention to what the patient says, just move them on as quickly as possible. They’ll come back if what you said doesn’t work, and they’re not dead. Then you can be all annoyed with them. My new doctor is a little better, but far from good enough. Still searching.

It’s sad we can’t get a good doctor like you. My blood pressure is always low at home but when I see the doctor it’s always higher. And it’s crazy I can feel it and can’t stop it. Now she’s on my cholesterol it’s 255 and I’m not taking any medications. I’m not over weight. I wish for a doctor like you. Thank you for the information. 🙏

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have to say you are easy to listen to, and easy on the eyes.

My systolic blood pressure has ranged from about 90 to 110 my entire adult life. One time, I went to my doctor's office during a migraine, and it was 130. They were ready to lecture me about hypertension before I pointed out that I was in a lot of pain, so of course my blood pressure was elevated. I've never had another high reading.

Thank you Doctor this is extremely useful information. My husband has HOCM and was put on heavy doses of medication to lower his blood pressure which would be elevated when he visited the doctor. Finally the cardiologist we consulted is gradually taking him off the multiple anti hypertension rugs he was being given.I live in a small town Dehradun in India ,your videos are very informative and educative 🙏.

Honest and Very humane DR. GOD BLESS YOU WITH THE BEST OF HEALTH AND LONG AILMENT FREE LIFE.

Makes total sense. I am on Solatol for AF and had an ECG reading on my Apple Watch a couple of days ago of 37bpm .... since being on this medication, it ranges around 45 - 48 where before all this started, it was normally around 70bmp. The blood pressure medication I am on also doesn't seem to lower my blood pressure with readings anywhere from 125/80 to 160/90 over the course of the day and sometimes even higher. I seem to be on this treadmill of the more tests they do, the more medications and procedures they want to to do. I am currently on the list to have an ablation for my AF which, with a few life style changes, is now less frequent and not as troublesome when I do get an attack. Apparently if I don't take Eliquis, I am more likely to have a stroke .... REALLY . I am now to the point of getting off all medications and managing my own health and body with lifestyle choices (weight management, diet and exercise) .... my body, my choice!!!

Doc, I've twice been fitted with an ambulatory monitor, and never will I do that again. Reason being, if I am standing, or moving in any way, the monitor could NOT take my BP measurement, and would instead continue to increase the clamping force on my arm, to the point that it bruised me...! So, I quickly learned to rush to a chair the moment I felt it airing up. Fun fact, it woke me up each and every time it took a reading overnight, so in no way did it ever truly capture what my actual BP was the course of 24 hrs. We have advanced a lot since the initial methods of reading BP, there is NO REASON that we cannot find a better, more precise, way to do so than clamping down on our arms.

Thank you for this Dr Gupta! I love the title. So timely, just what I needed to hear. This was my experience recently at my cardiologist appt. Dr took ONE blood pressure reading ( REFUSED to take a second one) BP 163/91 after driving in Chicago traffic and he told me to double my medication. I said NO, I will monitor. I am practicing 20/4 fasting to resolve my health issues and it is a very excellent way to live. I have learned so much on this journey and especially from you, I'm very thankful. After watching your video I do not even plan to return to this cardiologist. Incidentally he also put me through an angiogram for nothing as I had a false positive stress test. I will ask my primary about the all day blood pressure monitor. I also got my husband off lisinopril which contains snake venom. Thank you for bolding speaking truth! God bless

You give such clear information, I feel better just because you gave me the information instead of what my dr just put me on meds which increased my problems. I was reacting to chemicals in my environment and I figured it out, thanks to you. You beautiful, intelligent man🥰

there are many doctors that are like that, poor patients. thanks, dr gupta, patients under your care are so lucky. be safe💞

Very interesting doctor as always. My experience with blood pressure was when I was 25 and after getting a bout of vertigo my blood pressure was high about 160/100 I went back a week later same thing then I did the 24hr monitor and was still high and was put on blood pressure meds but they really didn't help much and at that stage I knew nothing about lifestyle impacts on blood pressure and I was a heavy drinker and smoker at the time. I gave up both and started exercising and got taken off the medication when I fainted because of hypotension. I'm now 43 and my blood pressure is around 114/ 68. Anyways thank you for all your videos they are amazing. Keep up the good work.

Very true. I have learnt that the hard way. I now control my BP in many diff ways, garlic, healthy eating, sensible exercise, no stress, anxiety etc and most of all breathing in via the nose, exhaling very slowly from the mouth as if blowing on hot tea. This brings it down 20 or more notches in no time at all.

About 10 years ago I saw a GP for my ectopics. He was in the room for about 30 seconds and gave me a prescription for Atenolol. Wanting a more thorough exam, I made an appointment with a cardiologist. He did a 2 week holter and ekg. He noted PVCs and PACs, but said he would NOT EVER put me on a beta blocker because sometimes at night my heart rate was already considerably low and a beta blocker could slow it down even more. It's unsettling to see how many poor diagnoses there are out there, all because things are done slap dash and hurried. I try to empathize with the doctor, I'm sure he has a packed schedule and bigger fish to fry than a nervous lady with ectopics, but I still wish people could get better care and attention. Thank you Dr. Gupta, for giving us what I wish every doctor had time to do! P.S. I still get ectopics, I just take magnesium taurate and charcoal caps for gas (my palpitations are 99% vagal) and this seems to keep in them very manageable. Maybe 2-5 per day. I think that's probably better than even what a beta blocker could do!

the same thing happened to me and I suffered allergic reaction that resulted in bowels swelling instead of lip and tongue swelling I am 72 and I have ordered a 24 hr monitor before I take anything else for my hbp....thanks so much for keeping us informed you are so kind and reassuring

actually a third possibility....there are factors unknown that are causing even more increase to the blood pressure. A likely cause for this would be the fear factor, now the patient is on meds and he develops a fear that his condition of great concern....purely anxiety driven high blood pressure.

We all need to be taught much more in school about this body which we live in our whole lives, how it works and how to keep it well. Most don't have a clue.