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DR. CLARKE: I had a patient who started out with a blood pressure.
it was 210 over a hundred and seventeen and she came
and she said I've been to a number of doctors
and they've never been able to get it to normal to where it's supposed to be to goal
as we call it to the 130 over 80 mark
and she says oh we'll never she says, "it'll come down some but it's never gonna be that way."
and I sat down and explained to her that
in most cases that it's not going to be one medication that you're gonna be able to take
and be able to get your blood pressure down. It's gonna be a combination
of medicines and that on an average most my patients are on at least
three blood pressure medications in order to get to goal and we eventually got her
blood pressure down to
I saw her a week ago and her blood pressure and now was 130 over 70.
She is on three medications it actually took
us about nine months to get her medications down and we went through a few
as far as she was having some side effects with some the medication so we
had to stop them
and a change it to another medication but eventually
because she knew that I had told her up front that it was gonna take a while
she was patient with me and she did her part and I did my part
and we were able to get a blood pressure under control and now she's much happier
she says that she feels a lot better. DR. WILLIAMS: One of my biggest
success stories is that I had a guy who came in and his ejection fraction
was about 25 percent. His blood pressure was very high
and after we really started talking about a lot of the risk factors
control, got him on medications. He started walking. He lost weight.
His ejection fraction when up to about 45-50 percent.
He can now...he employed again. His living life
and that's really what we want. DR. MEYERS: Similar to diabetes
We talk with people about
it really is a
matter of control. So the disease control control you or you can control it
and the disease doesn't give up, it doesn't get tired, it doesn't get frustrated.
and we have to take that same fight to it in order to win the battle.