Medical Warning from bfine

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(09-14-2017, 01:46 PM)Tiger Teeth Wrote: Glad you're still around.  And you too Wyche.  I had a scary event myself just the other night.  I was feeling dizzy and out of breath and told my wife (a nurse) that I felt funny.  She grabbed her blood pressure monitor, and checked me.  When the reading came up at 223/110, I knew it was high, but she calmly said, "let's go, we need to go to ER."  By the time we got there, it went up a little more (can't remember what it was, I was in freakout mode).  

They hooked me up to the EKG, and gave me something called Clonidine.  After about an hour, it came down to normal, or close to it.  I went to my doctor the next day, he read me the riot act, and doubled my blood pressure meds, and put me on the Clonidine also.  We've been keeping a close eye on it, and it's been running really good.  But the worst part is, I have to quit, or drastically cut down on my drinking.  So I learned that binge drinking will skyrocket your BP.  

Damn bro!  Were you drinking when it happened?