One theory I've come up with to account for the blood
pressure going up as the glucose goes down is this: her body
is demanding an elevated amount of glucose and other
nutrients in order to fuel the healing process going on in
her feet. She has pressure wounds in her heels (ulcerations)
which she contracted in the hospital some months back. I
read somewhere that the body requires 50 to 100 times the
normal blood flow through a wound site, in order to get the
materials to the site for rebuilding the tissue and to take
away the waste products such as carbon dioxide and dead
cells. Obviously, with such a stepped-up bio-manufacturing
process underway, glucose as fuel will be needed in much
greater than normal supplies.
And here's the rub, if you will. If there is not enough
glucose per volume of blood, the wound site is going to be
crying for more blood. In other words, if the blood is well
saturated with the nutrients the wound needs, then the blood
flow through the area can be at a slower (less pressurized)
pace than if the blood is deficient of the needed chemicals,
in which case a lot of blood would have to pass through, in
the same amount of time, to deliver the same amount of
nutrients.
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"cledus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Your observations are opposite to what I would expect.
Blood is thicker when the bg is high. It is much thinner
when bg is low. So my
expectation
Quoted message said:would be that blood pressure would be higher with high bg
because the thickness is greater. Not an expert opinion -
just a personal theory.
On the other hand, I have noticed that my wife gets very
pale when her bg
is
Quoted message said:low. This may indicate that blood pressure is too low.
Again, just a theory - not an informed, expert opinion.
Anyway, I believe that it is reasonable that one
might observe a relationship between blood pressure
and bg levels.
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Quoted message said:Thanks for the reply. I'll keep snooping. And I wish you
the best of
luck
Quoted message said:with your continued health progress.
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Quoted message said:[email hidden] wrote:
> I have noticed a correlation between my wife's blood
> sugar and her
blood
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> pressure. I want to know if anyone else has observed
> the following phenomena. The first thing I do every
> morning is take her blood
pressure.
Quoted message said:> Then I read her glucose level. I've noticed over
> many months of
checking
Quoted message said:> that when her blood pressure is high, at around 160
> systolic, her
glucose
Quoted message said:> level is low in the mid 80's and sometimes high
> 70's. At this
point,
Quoted message said:I
Quoted message said:give
Quoted message said:> her an Ensure which has 19 GM of sugar. Minutes
> later her BP drops
20
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> points as her glucose goes up to around 100. I
> mentioned this to
her
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:last
Quoted message said:> young doctor, and she made light of it, saying that
> there could be
no
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:such
Quoted message said:> correlation. But I've seen it happen enough to know
> there is.
>
> Has anyone experienced this sort of thing?
>
Can't say that I have, but I haven't been keeping such
a close eye on
my
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:pressure and glucose (at the same time). My pressure
tends to go up or down according to how much I am
dialyzing (I'm on peritoneal
dialysis),
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:so I am probably not a good example of this.
However, do some research (if you can) online, and if
you find
anything,
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:print it out (or take good notes) and then show it to
your doctor. I hate it when doctors don't want to even
consider the possibilities of certain things.
Good luck.
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