Blood pressure (lisinopril)

Keep tracking your BP as it may be a short term effect of your cannabis use. I'm back on the Blood Pressure medication merry go round after becoming sensitized to the one I'd been taking for 6 years. The Hash capsules I take for pain control don't pull my BP numbers down enough on it's own even combined with removing all the salt possible from my diet as well.

Latest medication has me running lower then expected numbers and I may dial back the dose to half and see. Getting light headed at the top of a flight of stairs is not a good thing.

BNW

 

i just got out of the hospital today after having a stoke thanks to unchecked bp it will be awhile before i smoke again.

 

glad your feeling better

 

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I'm on lisinopril too. I'd never go off it in exchange for weed though. If you smoke or vape everyday your bp will eventually normalize or go back to what it is when not high. Especially if your tolerance is low. Just be careful and keep monitoring if you have a cuff at home. Doc always wanted me to get one but I have not.

 

Cannabis drops my BP too. If I take my meds plus cannabis my BP will go down as low as 70s/50s which makes me extremely tired so now I only take oil caps for bp but I must take it twice a day, every day. It's controlling my bp better than meds, with meds my diastolic stays high, like in the 90s but the hash oil gets it down to the 70s. I can't say my body won't adjust to the pot but I have been partaking for a very long time.

 

I'm glad to hear your BP has improved with cannabis. Unfortunately that's not been my experience, @Merlock33. I just had to switch to a more powerful medicine to get my BP down.

 

@Cactus Ed I wish I could get my diastolic down, it runs high 80's half of the time. I just changed meds, but it's not improving that diastolic number. Unfortunately I'm not able to afford to use hash oil routinely as medicine. Our dispensaries here in VA are just too expensive.

 

Mine is usually pretty high. Last visit I looked up it was 150 systolic 100 diastolic.

 

To be honest the hash oil doesn't always lower my diastolic enough, I may have exaggerated a little but when I take both my meds and hash oil my pressure crashes and I have to lay down with my feet up. Have you noticed a difference in your blood pressure when you're high vs not high? Weed didn't always affect my pressure as much as it has lately, I wonder if it has anything to do with the pacemaker I got about 3 months ago. I hope so. I sure feel better since getting it but, since there's no free lunch, now I'm pacemaker dependent which means if my pacemaker dies, so do I, I don't have a viable underlying rhythm.

 

Oh, man. Pacemaker dependent. That's a bite in the ass. I'm glad you're feeling better at least @Cactus Ed. I know those pacemakers are real reliable, but that's scary that if it dies you do, too. My BP is labile and doesn't seem to correlate with being high, or high emotion. It's just all over the place. Sooner or later we'll get the right combination of meds. I wish I could afford to use medically to see if consistent dosing would affect it.

 

i dont know how you do it,when i smoke now,i feel like i got run over by a truck,sure wouldnt be doing it with a pace maker,i had arrhythmia and the reason they held me so long in the hospital ,they were fixing to shock me to get my rythm were it needed to be.
so i choice life over the herb,i hit that pipe at night for 4 hits and that it.
i just dont know how you all can do it,i get dizzy as crap ,even anxious

 

June 18 will be my 6 year anniversary without alcohol. I went into Glenbeigh (rehab) on the 18th. With high BP. My second night there my BP dropped to the point that I had a room full of DR's at 4 AM. Since then, my BP rarely gets to 'normal'. Nurses always check mine twice. I stay around 85-105 over 65-80. I was on Lisinopril for high BP when I went in, but was taken off due to the above. I still check myself most nights, usually about 90/65 right before bedtime. I've actually had multiple doctors and nurses tell me to "Eat a lot of salt" which sounds really weird coming from a Dr. I always associated the BP as an alcohol issue rather than a weed issue. Alcohol is one of the few drugs that can kill you by going 'Cold Turkey', sorta glad I was where I was when I did. Glad it all worked out for you, no alcohol, and no pills as a bonus!

 

lot of truth there,i also have issues with salt,i start to sweat,it almost pure salt,my eye will be blood red,no white from the sweat getting in my eyes,so i can understand the salt theory.
congrads on your goal too bro.once you make up your mind the rest is easy

 

My vitals are much more stable since I got my pacer. Most people get a pacemaker for a slow heart rate, I got mine for a fast heart rate which means they had to clip my AV node. The upside is that now no matter how much THC I take it doesn't increase my heart rate and a fast heart rate is what make most people get nervous or panicky. When I get dizzy from hypotension I drink some water and put my feet up which gets my pressure high enough to not have symptoms. I'm 71 and a retired cardiac intensive care nurse, this kind of shit doesn't worry me because first I understand what's going on and also I'm too old to die young so why worry?

 

Cannabis can cause cardiac problems and changes the rhythm. I love cannabis but extremely high thc strains for sure cause high blood pressure and even heart attacks in some cases. It can happen, as funny as it seems, drugs are drugs and drugs cause side effects.

For sure cannabis speeds up blood pressure

Mine is always off the fucking scales when I get my blood pressure checked in the Docs. They've even hooked me up on an ECG before. Crazy stuff.

 

life passes us by quick dont it? dont realize it to you have something as mentioned slow us down,then realism kicks in .
best acheivment would be to have some listen that are to young to listen,but hey i was young once too hahahah