When did you last have your blood pressure checked? Do you 'know your numbers'? Having your blood pressure checked is quite a simple thing to do on a regular basis.
If you don't have your own monitor to do the check your local pharmacy will have one or you can buy one, they aren't too expensive.
High or low blood pressure gives rise to lots of other medical conditions. I'm no medical expert, but there are plenty of on-line help pages that explain the conditions and how your blood pressure can be controlled.
However, this isn't by any stretch of the imagination an on-line medical blog! If you are doing regular blood pressure checks on the instruction of your doctor, then this insert will not doubt help you record the numbers, there a lot of them!
Doctors vary, but mine asked me to do three measurements spaced by a few minutes twice a day, so three in the morning and three in the evening.
On the subject of recording medical matters, since my long-dormant asthma flared up pretty badly last summer, I've been tracking my peak flow meter reading morning and evening plus the countdown of the number of doses left in my inhaler. I use the personal size year foldout insert from Filofax - the one where each day gets a line rather than the one with boxes. I draw two vertical lines each month so every day has three separate areas to record the readings. It works really well and makes more sense to me than the graph that the Asthma Society recommend.
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