Atkins and Blood Pressure

(Peggy) wrote in message . com...
I did google this subject, but didn't quite see the below situation.

A co-worker of mine had trouble with her blood pressure while she was
pregnant and really bad when it came time for delivery. After she had
the baby, her blood pressure went back to normal after awhile. That
was a year ago. She is not on BP meds that I know of.

At the end of last week she started doing Atkins. After cutting carbs
for a couple of days, her blood pressure shot up "because of all the
protein she was eating". Then when she ate "normal", her BP came down.

I don't understand this. Do you think that it was a temporary thing
and would have subsided after awhile? Her BP was so high it was giving
her a headache.

Can anyone relate or give some insight?

Peggy


My apologies for the second post on this coming out today. I hit "post
message" on this one yesterday and it gave me an error....so, thought
it didn't go through.

"FOB" wrote in message m...
Did she actually measure her blood pressure or did she translate her
headache into high blood pressure?


I'm not really sure. She just said it was her blood pressure. I
figured she ought to know how it feels since she had such trouble with
it before. I was just curious about it in general. I don't think I'll
be talking her back into Atkins any time soon. She is probably super
cautious about such things because of her previous experiences. I
understand about the headache. I've read about that many times on
here. I've been on Atkins for 2 years now. I don't remember a
particular problem with that in the beginning.

Peggy

Well, I have had high blood pressure for years and have never "felt" it. I
have heard people say they could "feel" their blood pressure rise and I
never believed it. They always say it in circumstances where someone has
angered them. I suspect they are associating the feelings of an adrenalin
dump with a rise in BP. In general, people find that LC lowers their BP
over time, but BP can fluctuate a great deal. You may have heard of "white
coat syndrome" where people's anxiety at going to the doctor causes their BP
readings there to be higher than they usually are. I have never heard
protein consumption associated with high BP. Salt can raise it, though, and
maybe she is consuming more sodium. However, you really can't begin to
figure anything out about blood pressure without a good measuring device.


In om,
Peggy stated
| "FOB" wrote in message
| m...
|| Did she actually measure her blood pressure or did she translate her
|| headache into high blood pressure?
||
|
| I'm not really sure. She just said it was her blood pressure. I
| figured she ought to know how it feels since she had such trouble with
| it before. I was just curious about it in general. I don't think I'll
| be talking her back into Atkins any time soon. She is probably super
| cautious about such things because of her previous experiences. I
| understand about the headache. I've read about that many times on
| here. I've been on Atkins for 2 years now. I don't remember a
| particular problem with that in the beginning.
|
| Peggy

Well, I have had high blood pressure for years and have never "felt" it. I
have heard people say they could "feel" their blood pressure rise and I
never believed it. They always say it in circumstances where someone has
angered them. I suspect they are associating the feelings of an adrenalin
dump with a rise in BP. In general, people find that LC lowers their BP
over time, but BP can fluctuate a great deal. You may have heard of "white
coat syndrome" where people's anxiety at going to the doctor causes their BP
readings there to be higher than they usually are. I have never heard
protein consumption associated with high BP. Salt can raise it, though, and
maybe she is consuming more sodium. However, you really can't begin to
figure anything out about blood pressure without a good measuring device.


In om,
Peggy stated
| "FOB" wrote in message
| m...
|| Did she actually measure her blood pressure or did she translate her
|| headache into high blood pressure?
||
|
| I'm not really sure. She just said it was her blood pressure. I
| figured she ought to know how it feels since she had such trouble with
| it before. I was just curious about it in general. I don't think I'll
| be talking her back into Atkins any time soon. She is probably super
| cautious about such things because of her previous experiences. I
| understand about the headache. I've read about that many times on
| here. I've been on Atkins for 2 years now. I don't remember a
| particular problem with that in the beginning.
|
| Peggy