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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060   
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15 bottles of beer per week is too much, whichever way you distribute it.
At 25, no immediate problem (apart from keeping your driving licence). At 40, it is a problem! Google "alcohol consumption and blood pressure". 2 drinks a day, five days a week (two dry days), is the suggested maximum. Your 50% over that, even if you have four dry days in between. Keep in mind that that is the suggested maximum, and it doesn´t refer to how well individual people deal with alcohol. (The "trained drinker" can drink far more, but only because their high body fat level slows down the intoxicating effects. They often have high blood pressure, with all the consequences). Otherwise your fitness programme and diet sounds great. A good example to many! 1998 Tdi 90 SW, 2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTs, Recaro CSs, anorak, wellingtons |
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23rd Jun 2020 9:59am |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1972 
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You've missed out a key bit of detail there - stubbies, 330ml or 500ml bottles 
I discovered a couple of weeks ago that the brewery I can just about see from home has an arrangement with the milkman. That's right, I can get beer delivered with the milk and paper.....the beer is absolutely cracking too: https://spilsburyandjones.co.uk/shop/ Huttopia. |
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23rd Jun 2020 10:19am |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1972
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Blimey Rashers, that all sounds a bit serious. Easier said than done to step off the merry go round, but if you can
I can remember thinking at 18 I'd retire at 40. Not sure why I thought that would be a good idea! |
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23rd Jun 2020 11:37am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3508 
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I also have a couple of other medical issues which a. make the blood pressure more difficult to control and b. makes the GP's figures of what is normal and high differ from Joe Public.
I love my job, but I hate the constant battling, arguing, moaning, high expectations, lack of money, lack of resources, bizarrely short time frames to achieve the impossible. None of the above help me or my blood pressure. I think a lot of it depends on how you look at life. I try and do the best I can and to the best of my ability and I worry about getting details right. Whereas if I was a bit more laid back and relaxed about it all, and could just pedal rubbish out the door and not be concerned or bothered and I probably wouldn't be taking so many pills. I have always had the dream of walking away from it and doing something which is perhaps just as enjoyable but less stressful and with less salary. It's probably a pipe dream. I don't get paid bad for what I do, but I see people on a heck of a lot less, with a hell of a lot more stress and so I stay doing what I am doing. As an old fella I used to work with would say; 'The grass on the other side of the fence is mostly just grass'. I think I will always remember that. |
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23rd Jun 2020 12:17pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3508
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You possibly could have retired at 40 if you hadn't bought a Land Rover 
I look back and think that if I had saved half of what I have squandered and wasted money on I would be rich by now. Mind you, I would be rich and very miserable  |
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23rd Jun 2020 12:20pm |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3678 
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Full size bottles Hutt, which I know it is probably not what the government recommends! I fear it would be much higher if the milkman delivered!! |
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23rd Jun 2020 4:30pm |
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| Birdy Member Since: 07 Oct 2011 Location: Côte d'Azur Posts: 866  
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“the Dr put me on ramipril” “ I was put on a low dose of Ramipril then saw a different DR on a check up who took me off the pills” “...now on high doses of rampiril and 3 other drugs”
My own Dr prescribed Lisinopril, a specialist at the hospital prescribed Amlodipine. First doctor: “Oh, take them both then”. Other quacks will go the rat-poison route to thin the blood, they’ll all try to get you on statins and/or daily aspirin. And I guarantee not one of them will have investigated a REASON for your higher than average BP, just prescribe any old thing which will give a lower reading on the monitor. And all because seven out of ten people who have heart attacks/strokes have a higher than normal blood pressure (I’m making that statistic up, but only 25% of statistics are true, the other 85% are invention). But the BP of persons who DON’T have heart attacks/strokes is never measured, so where’s the proof it’s a big deal? I’m 72, had a TIA about ten years ago almost certainly caused by stress (old man with teenage daughters, say no more) and now get a bit of angina if, for example, I run too quickly up a flight of stairs. The side effects of the pills I HAVE taken ranged from muscle cramps to being violently ill (“Oh, we should have taken you off that one months ago, long-term it causes stomach ulcers”), I now take only a daily Clopidogrel (less dangerous than aspirin). In short, eat sensibly, exercise regularly, and don’t worry too much about having a higher BP than average. And DO NOT blindly accept a Doctor’s choice of medicines without having established the exact cause and how these medicines are going to remedy it. cf. “My Puma has less power than before” “Mmmm, that’s normally worn injectors, we’ll change ’em” “Wow, I’ve just pumped the tyres up to normal pressure and the truck’s running much better” Peter |
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23rd Jun 2020 5:13pm |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1972
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My father is quite happy to take a tablet rather than address the underlying issue i.e. he’s 73, does no exercise, loves beer and food and wine and food and food and beer. Consequently he’s been 19-20 stone for 50 years. Pill for gout, statins, heart pill (pacemaker last year as heart rate was stuck at 40) on it goes. I’ve railed against it but gave up some time ago- he’s a very happy / contented chap. He knows what he likes, he pootles about doing his thing with his old Ariel Red Hunter or KTM Duke, and is just super chilled. When he worked as a solicitor he didn’t take on new clients for the last 20 years, he was happy working with his group of long established clients who were also keen on a pub lunch and a pint.
Took me bloomin ages to work out what he worked out ages ago..... |
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23rd Jun 2020 5:36pm |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3678
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Thanks for the comments gents, much appreciated. I don’t really do meds as a rule, so that would be very much last resort for me. I’m going to measure it daily and change one thing at a time to rule things in or out so that I can go to the quack armed with a root cause if need be.
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23rd Jun 2020 5:44pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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I think I'd be starting with this. |
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24th Jun 2020 5:35am |
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