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nate bailey

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Joined: 19 Dec 2003
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Location: arizona

Hypertension And Toprol Posted: 12-19-03 03:06am


I have been taking inderal propanorol for over twenty years and a couple of days ago I ran out and started to get the symptoms associated for not taking your blood pressure medicine. This included rapid heart beat pulse and so forth. I visited my local urgent care facility and saw a doctor who in return told me that my blood pressure was 143 over 82 and proceeded to give me an ekg. I informed him that i had recently received a physical examination several months ago. He stated that the ekg was normal which I had figured from the start. He also stated that I should not be taking inderal because it is not for black people to take. He suggested taking toprol and wrote a prescription for it. Can someone enlighten me on this because I have never had a doctor tell me this? thanks, nate

purple333

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Joined: 01 Dec 2003
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Location: Sydney

Posted: 12-20-03 10:19am


Nate, as i'm from australia the same medicines here have different names to those you have there so I can't comment on them. I do know that there are a few (very few) medicines/illnesses that are different in & for different racial groups (there's one thing that's specific to people from the new hebrides) so the dr may be right. But the blood pressure reading you mentioned is (as I understand it) not seen as that high. My suggestion is to check out a couple of search engines on the net (yahoo or google are good) & type in a search for say are there any contra indications to blacks taking whatever medicine you've been on, you may need to play around with the wording to get a complete answer. Another search question might be what are the differences or what are the uses of & then look under both medicines. Good luck

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