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Year of Gratitude- 2013

By amarettosour · New reply 12:46 am
Journal · 351 replies
Happy New Years To All Inspire Members! I have decided to start a journal for gratitude for the new year. 2012 is behind us and its time to move forward. I know that life has it's challenges and I have ...

Five million

By Brian · New reply May 16, 2013
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Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

Side effects of spironolactone

By hypokalemicgirl · New reply May 15, 2013
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Has any females out there taking spiro had any horrible menstrual symptoms? Since I've been on it, my cycles will last for days and are really heavy. I am now anemic because of it ...

Lisinopril 80 mg

By Provincetown · New reply May 12, 2013
Discussion in Treatment of high blood pressure · 6 replies
I am on 80 mg lisinopril , 100 mg atenolol, and 25 mg of diuretic. I was hospitalized with bp 226/ 125 therefore I am on all these meds. It has only been a week but I have headaches and am light headed ...

My high blood pressure story

By Laurie01 · New reply May 12, 2013
Discussion in Controlling my high blood pressure · 3 replies
when I went to the ER in July 2012 with a nose bleed my blood pressure was 300/220. The nurse that took it just went white and went and got the doctor. She went right to the phone and called the heart ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
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As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

Weston A. Price Foundation

By ewcollins · New reply May 3, 2013
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We often discuss the Weston A. Price Foundation here (or else use it as a reference to justify doing whatever we plan on doing anyway). I, myself, have no opinion of the Foundation. This article by Dr ...

Atenolol

By Provincetown · New reply April 23, 2013
Discussion in Treatment of high blood pressure · 2 replies
Does anyone take 200 mg of atenolol a day. My doctor just put me on it ...

When you say nothing at all: Living with an invisible illness

By John2 · Posted April 18, 2013
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From: John Novack, communications director, Inspire Dear members, I'm writing to share with you a new column on the Stanford University School of Medicine "Scope" medical blog: "When you say nothing at ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
Journal · 16 replies
Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

Blood Pressure and alternative

By naturalgirl · New reply April 8, 2013
Discussion in Treatment of high blood pressure · 19 replies
My husband recently had his blood pressure go up very high. The highest was 180/99. At first we thought this was a mistake and finally decided it was high enough to go to the doctors. At that time it ...

Various questions

By Joe-N-Nina · New reply April 7, 2013
Discussion in Treatment of high blood pressure · 8 replies
In the first place, thanks in advance for any information! I'm tiny, dreadful family BP history, no smoking ever, and salt-sensitive - so monitor BP frequently, and watch low-sodium diet pretty well ...

Pregnant and Controlling my high BP

By Midnight-in-Paris · New reply March 20, 2013
Discussion in Controlling my high blood pressure · 2 replies
Hi all! I'm about 22 weeks pregnant and had an existing hypertension before this pregnancy. I did not take any meds, but now that I'm pregnant I'm on meds for my BP. So far, my BP fluctuates from high ...

spiro side effects

By hypokalemicgirl · New reply March 11, 2013
Discussion in Treatment of high blood pressure · 3 replies
I cut myself down from the 100 mg of spiro. Not sure if it's related but I was getting afib. My heart would speed up, slow down and sometimes I would abruptly wake up and breath deep. Rather frightening ...

spironolactone

By hypokalemicgirl · New reply March 4, 2013
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Blood pressure was up even with 50 mg of spiro a day. Doctor upped it to 100 mg now. Is helping but wondering if I'm going to have to keep taking higher doses. I'm not looking forward to the possible ...

torpol while exercising?

By apko · New reply February 8, 2013
Discussion in Treatment of high blood pressure · 4 replies
I started taking Toprol about 2 weeks ago. (25mg) I was diagnosed with Hypertension (159/92) and I am a very active person evethough I do drink once or twice a week (6 to10 beers) while having a cigerette ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Lindsey Miller

By John2 · New reply February 6, 2013
Journal · 13 replies
We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people featured in our Q&A series ...

It's a miracle!

By LizStoneTugby · New reply February 3, 2013
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Last summer, I went to New Wine C and I was prayed for and blessed by a vicar about low blood pressure. God healed me completely. He slay me by his Holy Spirit, did spiritual surgery on me and told me ...

We're hiring!

By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
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Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

hypertensitivy

By Mel-mel · Posted January 4, 2013
Discussion in Controlling my high blood pressure · 0 replies
I am feeling tired and weak in knee area, slight headaches light headed, body feels a bit weighty all this happen after given birth 3 weeks ago. High blood pressure was detected before was not this serious ...

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