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Hi @Appleblossom@utopia@Maggie@Former-Member

I'm so glad you like my humour Apple - and I am sick of winter already this year and it's only 31st of May - not a good start

I like what you wrote about BP medication and under-anxiety and so glad you got off them - there is hope for me yet though I am taking a something more appropriate now after being ill for weeks on the wrong one 

It took me a while to get my head around chronic pain and anxiety causing high BP still needs treatment - seeing as taking less for the pain means the pain is worse - strange idea some people in the medical profession have about the pain getting worse if we take less pain medication when the cause of the pain itself has never been treated - like I ask - how can the tablets make the pain worse? btw -rhetorical questions but the pain increases BP as does stress and it seems your psychologist has treated the stress successfully - I am glad of that for your sake

But I am not seeing anyone about stress and anxiety right now and wonder if there is any help to be had there if I start with pyschologist number 5 - long story - it's not as if I set out to ch op and change but the last one and her fee for non-attendance meant I have managed to successfully avoid the fee but now I don't have a therapist - and all of that was stressful

Is it possible to live a life without all this stress - I really don't think so

So - the first BP medication caused all sorts of symptoms like fatique, dizziness, lack of appetite but it wasn't until my feet swelled up and my socks caused deep grooves in my ankles and my shoes felt uncomfortable that my dose was cut in half and I am on a different kind of medication that I worked out I had pressure in my head causing so much confusion - now I am okay and I can go out and walk around the streets and build up my health again

What a relief 

I am soooooooooo glad you are off the BP medication and now I feel like taking my daily walk

Dec