Comments on: Inexpensive Ways to Monitor Your Health at Home http://www.pfadvice.com/2012/04/13/inexpensive-ways-to-monitor-your-health-at-home/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gail http://www.pfadvice.com/2012/04/13/inexpensive-ways-to-monitor-your-health-at-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1003734 Gail Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:02:56 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/?p=10160#comment-1003734 If you take abundant medications especially for blood pressure problems, it is good to keep a notebook with morning and evening blood pressures to take to the doctor with you. Over the years my BP journal has progressed to helping me keep track of a weekly injection, and every three day patch change, writing notes about health problems at the time or extra stress so you can see if it corresponds with increase BP or whatever. If you do have trouble with your bowels due to medication usage, you can also note when you ‘go’ as well. It is a snapshot that can help you and your doctor know what changes need to be made in medications and healthcare regime.

By the way keeping track of your weight can also help you see if you are going into congestive heart failure. If your weight is shooting up for no reason, your ankles are swollen, your BP is up, you are having trouble breathing and are short of breath call your doctor at once. It is a medical emergency! A large weight gain of 5-10# over 2-3 days is one of the warning signs in conjunction with the rest. Just a tidbit of information from my days as an RN.

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