There is a new website to help people get their blood pressure down.
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
March 17, 2010 3:40pm CST
It's lowerpressure.com and it's been started by Respirate. Respirate is a company that puts out a bio-feedback kit that helps you lower your blood pressure using biofeedback. But it only lowers it a few points. If a person only needs a few points, that's great, but for more assistance, they advocate diet and exercise. They've been sending me a newsletter. The bio-feed back machine was around $200 about three years ago, now it's around $300. Some day when I have the money, I want to get one, but right now I'm just trying to pay bills.
So do you have high blood pressure? Do you know someone who has high blood pressure? What kinds of things has you or this person tried? Have you or the other person tried biofeedback? Has anything worked to help you or this other person?
My Doctors won't prescribe it so that my insurance might pay for it. They don't believe in it.
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
18 Mar 10
Hi, Edge!
I've been on blood pressure medicine for years, mostly as a result of a congenital heart defect. The dosage is way down of late, because I've been dieting, exercising, and meditating. When I started working out in earnest, my heart rate would go too high, and I'd be dizzy or even briefly pass out. A friend suggested deep-breathing before I began and while running or bicycling or whatever else brought the rate too high, and it works like a charm! I suspect, as I get it to become routine, I might be able to get rid of those medications completely one of these days!
I love the weight loss that comes with it, too!
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
18 Mar 10
I was going to suggest the deep breathing, as well. I know that it calms me all over and my blood pressure then is lower.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Mar 10
Yes, and the deep breathing is part of what the biofeedback machine does. It also relaxes blood vessals.
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Mar 10
Interesting. Also that the machine you speak of has gone up in price instead of down. Usually items go down in price not up. Maybe it took the kit awhile to become popular. Could it be that it is costing them more to produce it and so the price has gone up. Poor doctors. They are so anal!!
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Mar 10
I've never seen medical devices go down. Not even canes and crutches (except for the occasional sale). They did have a sale one time, $25 or $50 off a while ago.
I think manufacturers of medical devices must have to have some kind of insurance that goes up like the Drs. malpractice stuff. I don't know.
My genocologist sent me for biofeedback for incontanance training to build the exact muscles in the correct ratio so I wouldn't leak when standing up. So some Drs. do believe in some of it.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
19 Mar 10
Yes, but when it comes under medical, that seems to over-ride the technical for price considerations.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Mar 10
I wasn't really speaking of medical instruments. More the technology angle and how the price goes down after awhile on new technological items.
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