Death by hypertension. not on bp medication
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Hi all, I wonder if anybody could help.
My father passed away from Hypertensive heart disease. The coroner told us it was natural causes and that we would have been aware of this with the bp medication he would of been taking. The only thing is he was never prescribed bp medication. We have had his medical notes and we are not sure if he should have been prescribed medication.
He was 67 and smoked and drank also. His bmi was 22 so weight was not an issue. his heart was twice the weight and size.
his readings were
Date Systolic Diastolic
7th Nov 1994 140 90
19th Nov 2004 163 94
10th Jan 2007 140 80
1st Mar 2011 144 82
2ND READING 142 82
3RD READING 139 86
11th Jan 2016 139 78
24th Mar 2016 149 87
23rd Aug 2016 152 83
7th Sep 2016 134 89
2ND READING 140 80
10th Mar 2017 155 90
are these reading high enough to of been prescribed medication? any help would be fantastic
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lyn1951 james81679
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James and others - thought this might be of interest to you.
My husband has diagnosed dialated cardimyopathy, left ventricle side is blown out, cause unknown, probably a virus is the best they can do.
His heart is abosultuly huge, Dr's words, and because of its size not very efficient. They told me he could not survive his condition as he was so ill, that was 6 1/2 years ago now, Ejection Fraction at 23% in the hospital.
He still contunues to amaze and baffle them, his lung function is way above normal, they asked if he was an olypmic swimmer, would have gone if he could have afforded it, and to top that off he smoked for 40 years, and is a cookie monster.
His ankles do not swell, and his blood pressure never seems to change from completly normal, even when heart beat down to 23 BPM, me knowing that his ankles never swell did not seem to penetrate the hospital nurses the last time he was in hospital, and the regular checking of ankles a waste of time in his case, but his weight does change on a daily basis.
I mentioned the last time he was in hospital with 23 BPM, pacemaker installed, immediately he started peeing, and could not stop, for 12 hours, every 20 minutes he needed a bottle, kept the nurses running providing for him, he lost 5 kilo's in twelve hours, again Dr's shaking their heads in amazement.
When they did an angiogram they were amazed to discover he dies not have blocked arteries, as do 98% of the population, did the angio three times for other Dr's in the hospital to look at, specialist said he has only seen others like him less than 5 times in a lifetime of cardio practice.
derek76 lyn1951
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lyn1951 derek76
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Derek - pravastatin 40mg, bisoprolol 5mg, cartia 100mg, duodart, & esomeprazole 20mg.
The hospital dropped his blood pressure tablets after they put his pacemaker in place.
derek76 lyn1951
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Apart from the aspirin all ones that caused me side effects.
My BP gradually came down after my pacemaker was fitted and I've now stopped taking losartan. Was he taking diltiazem as that causes fluid retention ?
lyn1951 derek76
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No Diltiazem for him, I have a funny feeling thats one they tried in the hospital, did not agree with him at all.
He took Frusemide for fluid for a while early in his illness, but Dr's took him off it as his echo looked a little better at the six month mark.
I still have discretion to use frusemide if I think he needs it, I always start to get a little worried if he starts coughing for no reason or sounds wet in the lungs. I take his blood pressure and heart beat at home, the Dr's have told me the range they should be within, if not bring him to the hospital.
Has been admitted 4 times now during the last six years to the heart hospital, each and every time the senr cario has told me without me bringing him to the hospital when I did he would not be with us.
Hsbands blood pressure has always been in the normal range much too the specialists disgust and delight, when you are soo ill as he was I believe your blood pressure is not supposed to be in the normal range, even when his heatbeat got down to 23, his blood pressure held, but it was not going to for very long, his extremities had closed down, hands and feet were completly white and very cold. In my opinion they ran it very close to losing him from complications, his bowel didnt work for 10 days after pacemaker installed.
I was getting really worried if they had left him too long with such a slow heartbeat, just don't understand how somebody else could be in a worse condition than he was when they delayed installing the pacemaker by 24 hours, gave his pacemaker to somebody else, and he had to wait, or so they told me.