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24-11-09, 00:10
Im 55. I have had a wonderful life and worked hard and gone through tremendous amounts of hardships and stress. I have been retired for a few years lucky enough to do it.
At this time in my life I should be able to kick back and relax and have fun. My blood pressure is just slightly , very slightly above normal. We have been monitoring it for about a week now.. Its almost always right at above normal.
Ok.. I read that caffeine is bad for it. My mother drank coffee all my life and always had a pot on. She had medical problems but only went to the doctor every so often. He would give her meds and she wouldn't take them.
She stayed busy and kept going, hobbling here and there in the heat even.
The year she died I had gone for a visit prior to that and ask for a cup of coffee and she said she didn't have any. I was shocked she had quit. After all the years of drinking coffee and then just quit? Weird.. She died the very same year. I think the coffee kept her sharp and kept her veins open but thats just me. I have been drinking coffee since I was about four years old.
In the past few years I drank perhaps 30 to 40 cups a day and in the last few years that I have had more medical problems I have only been drinking about three cups a day. I just got tired of the taste and only find that I like it first thing in the morning and at lunch and afternoon. Could this drive my blood pressure up that much. How come Im feeling worse now in the last couple of years since I haven't been drinknig it.?
I don't want to give up what little coffee I drink. I also drink soda's ..They are mostly caffeinated .. Some are usually not like 7up and sprite but they are all no sugar diets.. I drink a couple a day to help with my digestion.
I don't particularly like soda's but they help me from having lots of gas and helps digest my food.
Third I do smoke. Not sure Ill ever give up smoking.. Maybe cut down.. but not give it up. I don't drink ever. I don't use drugs besides what the doctor gives me and hate to even take them then.. I dont eat salt .,I exercise and my weight is about perfect.. I eat lots of fruit, veggies and nuts and also broil my food and don't eat lots of food high in fat. I do have a piece of low sugar frozen cake in the evenings sometimes.. and sometimes no desert at all . but other than that am I really going to die from these little things I do ?
What is I ate just bland food ,drank ony water, don't smoke and don't have a cup of coffee three times a day and a about two soda's a day . I live to be say oh 98 ,then what kind of life do I end up with . Boring and bland and not worth living but it was long so I could remember the fun things I used to do. ? Personally I think they can't find anything but good about coffee and the sugar industry and tried to destroy the synthetics market for diet products by saying it gives you cancer and well I can't really say about the smoking because I really don't know but my grand father outlived three doctors that said he would die if he didn't stop drinkng and smoking. He lived to 93 and had a wonderful life?
So what is a person suppose to do.. Just sit in a dream state don't move because they may run their blood pressure up. Eat bland food and don't do anything else ? Sounds like a great life to me ? Is this what everyone thinks life should be ? Im sorry im just a little frustrated and worried and don't know which way to turn. I have done nothing that I know about in recent years that would hurt me other than smoking and drinking coffee and thats about it.. Why should I quit now? Will I really live that much better of a life and longer? what does everyone think? .
At this time in my life I should be able to kick back and relax and have fun. My blood pressure is just slightly , very slightly above normal. We have been monitoring it for about a week now.. Its almost always right at above normal.
Ok.. I read that caffeine is bad for it. My mother drank coffee all my life and always had a pot on. She had medical problems but only went to the doctor every so often. He would give her meds and she wouldn't take them.
She stayed busy and kept going, hobbling here and there in the heat even.
The year she died I had gone for a visit prior to that and ask for a cup of coffee and she said she didn't have any. I was shocked she had quit. After all the years of drinking coffee and then just quit? Weird.. She died the very same year. I think the coffee kept her sharp and kept her veins open but thats just me. I have been drinking coffee since I was about four years old.
In the past few years I drank perhaps 30 to 40 cups a day and in the last few years that I have had more medical problems I have only been drinking about three cups a day. I just got tired of the taste and only find that I like it first thing in the morning and at lunch and afternoon. Could this drive my blood pressure up that much. How come Im feeling worse now in the last couple of years since I haven't been drinknig it.?
I don't want to give up what little coffee I drink. I also drink soda's ..They are mostly caffeinated .. Some are usually not like 7up and sprite but they are all no sugar diets.. I drink a couple a day to help with my digestion.
I don't particularly like soda's but they help me from having lots of gas and helps digest my food.
Third I do smoke. Not sure Ill ever give up smoking.. Maybe cut down.. but not give it up. I don't drink ever. I don't use drugs besides what the doctor gives me and hate to even take them then.. I dont eat salt .,I exercise and my weight is about perfect.. I eat lots of fruit, veggies and nuts and also broil my food and don't eat lots of food high in fat. I do have a piece of low sugar frozen cake in the evenings sometimes.. and sometimes no desert at all . but other than that am I really going to die from these little things I do ?
What is I ate just bland food ,drank ony water, don't smoke and don't have a cup of coffee three times a day and a about two soda's a day . I live to be say oh 98 ,then what kind of life do I end up with . Boring and bland and not worth living but it was long so I could remember the fun things I used to do. ? Personally I think they can't find anything but good about coffee and the sugar industry and tried to destroy the synthetics market for diet products by saying it gives you cancer and well I can't really say about the smoking because I really don't know but my grand father outlived three doctors that said he would die if he didn't stop drinkng and smoking. He lived to 93 and had a wonderful life?
So what is a person suppose to do.. Just sit in a dream state don't move because they may run their blood pressure up. Eat bland food and don't do anything else ? Sounds like a great life to me ? Is this what everyone thinks life should be ? Im sorry im just a little frustrated and worried and don't know which way to turn. I have done nothing that I know about in recent years that would hurt me other than smoking and drinking coffee and thats about it.. Why should I quit now? Will I really live that much better of a life and longer? what does everyone think? .