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Jdsk wrote:Cochrane Reviews are very convenient sources and starting places for people who don't know their way around a medical subject. The summaries are free everywhere and the whole content is free in the UK. They include a summary in plain English for patients and carers. They follow a clear methodology. They show their working.

They aren't perfect but I don't know anything systematically better for the purpose.

Cochrane Plain Language Summaries
https://www.cochrane.org/evidence

The Cochrane Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Library

Jonathan

PS: Do you mean Rosetta Stone? The significance of that was how it enabled translation, not any quality of content.

Mick F wrote: ↑21 Jul 2020, 8:57pm I was on BP meds and then found out that I didn't have a BP issue, but a stress issue.
Take my BP at the health centre, and it's way too high.

White Coat syndrome?
No, not me.
It's being tested that sends my stress level up ............ and my BP ............ and it doesn't matter who is doing it, and me DIY included.

If you have your own BP monitor, do it on one arm, then do it on the other arm.
Quite a big difference.
Swap arms back and forth, and note the figures.
Do it over a whole evening relaxing and quiet.
Sit down at home in your armchair, relax, do it again and again, relax some more, get the pulse-rate down, and do it again ................

At no time will you have any figure that is consistent. Not one!
Which is correct?
Take an average?

Mine generally is fine.
Go to the doctor's and it's sky-high .............. hence the meds, which I was given, got side effects, and have since give up on them.

Mick F wrote: ↑9 Jan 2022, 10:25amReceived a letter yesterday asking me to make an appointment for reviews on my asthma and my BP.

Asthma isn't an issue at all.

As I say, I'm up and down health-wise due to asthma...

Mick F wrote: ↑9 Jan 2022, 10:25amI'll go along with it all and expect a call from the doctor regarding my probably high BP.

Mick F wrote: ↑9 Jan 2022, 10:25am I was on BP meds and then found out that I didn't have a BP issue, but a stress issue.
Take my BP at the health centre, and it's way too high.
White Coat syndrome?
No, not me.
It's being tested that sends my stress level up ............ and my BP ............ and it doesn't matter who is doing it, and me DIY included.
If you have your own BP monitor, do it on one arm, then do it on the other arm.
Quite a big difference.
Swap arms back and forth, and note the figures.
Do it over a whole evening relaxing and quiet.
Sit down at home in your armchair, relax, do it again and again, relax some more, get the pulse-rate down, and do it again ................
At no time will you have any figure that is consistent. Not one!
Which is correct?
Take an average?
Mine generally is fine.
Go to the doctor's and it's sky-high .............. hence the meds, which I was given, got side effects, and have since give up on them.

Hellhound wrote: ↑9 Jan 2022, 12:53pm If you had side effects then why not try a different medication?Have you self diagnosed it being a stress issue or did your GP come to this conclusion?
You say it's generally fine but you get inconsistent results.Is your BP monitor working correctly?How can you be sure it's fine if you are getting different results everytime you do a reading?

Since going on Ramirpril a couple of years ago my BP readings are always consistent whether taken at home or at my GP surgery.

Mick F wrote: ↑9 Jan 2022, 4:23pm... and then tell them to get lost.