Just out of curiosity - if doing home monitoring to take to the surgery

Oh dear I'm sure a good night's sleep would do you good.

Best of luck with the new pill regime let us know how you manage with them. My lovely BP dr told me yesterday when I asked about being given an Ace inhibitor [Ramipril] in the first instant last year, rather than what the NHS recommends which would have been a calcium channel blocker due to my great age, that she prefers to try the Ace inhibitors first as they give protection against kidney problems. The 'artans' are also considered to be Ace inhibitors apparently.

My granddaughter is a medical student and from time to time goes to a GPs surgery as a student to learn how it's all done.

Hello Jane.

I didn't get off to sleep despite being so weary and Fred has an eye infection so had to see to that, but at 7 am the covers were ripped off with the comment" lots to do today, you can sleep in your chair" Sigh.

But yesterday I weighed 11 stone and 2 lbs and today after one pill and weeing for my country I am down to 10stone and 12lbs.

My BP was 124/64 this morning too. Can't believe it and don't suppose it will last, but encouraging.I took the first pill this morning!

How nice that your granddaughter is a medical student, how many years before she qualifies?

Jenny

Goes to show what water retention can do to us doesn't it !! 4 lbs in a day isn't bad, won't last though I don't suppose, even if you are peeing for England!! And if it keeps the BP down too that's good.

My granddaughter is only in her first year at medical school, Nottingham, and is loving the course. Long way to go - it's 5 years and then some more depending on what you end up wanting to do.

I wanted to be a doctor so much, but as the youngest of the family and with a dad who had suffered several strokes, it was gently explained to me that he could die before I even started the course and women were not encouraged to study medicine then, had to go in through the back door so to speak. So reluctantly I chose the shortest medical course at the time.

Apart from O.T the next one was radiography so I did that and qualified from The London Hospital after 2 years in 1954.

Have so often regretted it, but would have been a rotten doctor as always got too involved with my patients and that won't do in medicine.

My grandmother's sister was a science teacher during the first world war and apparently after the war the country was desperately short of doctors and asking for science teachers to train to become doctors. So she took up the challenge and became a GP: being sponsored by some wealthy benefactor. She became a GP with her own practice down in Horsham and lived to a ripe old age.

That is interesting.

My school friend desperately wanted to study medicine as her father had porphyria (?) and wasn't even considered though she had top marks in everything, so she went and studied micro-biology and got into medical school two years later by switching. Though she came out with top marks no one would employ her so she went to Africa as a medical missionary with far more responsibility and experience than she would have got at home. She met and married out there and raised a family, but what a journey to get there.

Sadly the diamond dust in Johannesburg affected her lungs and sinuses and she died while working in the black childrens' hospital there. She always came to see me when she made one of her rare visits and told me of all her adventures.