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And looking pretty much like I’m currently expecting. Only just sneaked under the 200 barrier though 😀

I toddled down to the surgery this morning to discuss how things were going and the informed opinion seemed to be “right direction, but not good enough yet”. However, it wasn’t possible to decide what additional medication I would need until I’d had another set of blood tests.

I duly donated a vial and amazingly the results came back late in the afternoon with a note saying that I had now been prescribed Spironolactone in addition to the Ramipril and Indapamide. To late to collect it though, so I’ll have to wait for Monday.

The morning one, this time. But nothing particularly surprising with the afternoon/evening ones.

Let’s hope it continues. Pulse is still quite high as my BP drops below 150 though. That’s when I really start to struggle

I’m starting to believe that now I’ve been taking it for a few days, with the Indapamide my BP might stay below 200. First and last readings here are morning and evening. The other two are early/late afternoon.

I had a pretty hideous afternoon today. I felt so tired that eventually I just had to sleep on the sofa. Eventually I woke up just before 8pm thinking that I’d only been asleep for a couple of hours. My daughter soon disabused me of that idea. Probably five hours would have been nearer the mark, apparently. I didn’t realise, which is quite possibly not a good thing in itself.

I have a number of readings from throughout the day because I was interested to see if the Indapamide appeared to be doing anything. I think the last but one demonstrates the reason for my “crash” though.