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Very high blood pressure


Dear List Friends;

A friend of mine who has Parkinson's just told me about the following
incident where she was experiencing chest pain. Can anyone shed any light on
this for her?  She was told it was from stress and that her heart is strong.

Sequence of events follows:

Chest pains Wednesday. Went to doctor Thursday

Took EKG   - difficult to take because of Parkinson's tremor.
Blood pressure went bezerk

Went to cardiologist who gave her nitroglycerine in case she needed it.
Took 4 of them. Chest pain went away.

Tuesday had eccocardiogram
Wednesday had stress test and heart rate went beserk
Doctor panicked

All tests came back negative.  So they suggested an angiogram which she had
then in the hospital.

Heart is apparently okay, but blood pressure was very high ... 136/110.
Normal is 138/80 for her.

Her medications are as follows:
Sinemet CR  25/100   3x day
Requip 1 mg    4x day
Symmetrel  100 mg   3 x day

Any input will be appreciated.

Sincerely,
Alison Landes
PTCG/Fran Landes, sister, 46/45/43


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