She goes a&e they just give her another blood pressure tablet pain killers and send her home 7hrs later she is too poorly to keep going up there three times in four weeks the drs are not very helpful we feel so helpless I hate seeing her so ill she is on three lots of blood pressure tablets as it is had anyone else seen this in their elderly parents
What do you do about measuring blood pressure at home daily? There are very good devices, quite inexpensive. You mention A&E so I am thinking you are in the UK? I don't know if you can buy Omron there, but it is an excellent device, easily used, about 30.00 in the USA. You want never to use wrist or finger measurements, only arm measurements.
Do the docs suggest/might they suggest any medication she can take on a PRN or "as needed" basis for high readings?
How is diet and is she limiting the salts?
Is she overly anxious by nature?
I am trying to think of what might work but for some high blood pressure is a fact of life about which there is not much to do. It is a hugely complicated system that regulates our pressures.
I think that I would make an appointment with the general practioner that addresses ONLY this ongoing problem and about what (if anything) can be done about it.
I do have blood pressure issues and the one thing, at 82, I can guarantee you is that movement (walking for me) helps it a whole lot. I just read in the AARP magazine that this is typical.
Good luck. Wishing you both the best.