Looking for recommendations
Jan. 11th, 2008 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamshark... albeit on rather specialized products. Still, you never know who might be reading this.
After chatting with Dr. Willis I've decided to buy a small humidifier for my bedroom and a home blood pressure monitor. The doc says that people like me that have allergy-type respiratory symptoms all winter often find that humidifying the air "is surprisingly helpful." I'm willing to try it.
As for the BP monitor... I'm finally admitting that my borderline high blood pressure is not responding at all to "lifestyle modifications" and is in fact inching out of the borderline and into the high category (I think of it as 140/90, but the top number varies a lot and not usually in a downward direction). I reluctantly agreed to try BP medication, but I would like to be able to monitor whether it's working or not, especially since I'm starting with a low dosage.
SO... does anybody have any experience with either of these items? Any recommendations?
In other news, my beloved Palm Tungsten E2 has decided to join the cavalcade of self-destructing appliances in my life and became unusable today. I've actually been very happy with it (except for the mechanical flaw that finally became lethal) so I may just stop at Best Buy on the way home and see if I can buy another one. But in case I don't find one and somebody has a better idea, feel free to suggest it.
After chatting with Dr. Willis I've decided to buy a small humidifier for my bedroom and a home blood pressure monitor. The doc says that people like me that have allergy-type respiratory symptoms all winter often find that humidifying the air "is surprisingly helpful." I'm willing to try it.
As for the BP monitor... I'm finally admitting that my borderline high blood pressure is not responding at all to "lifestyle modifications" and is in fact inching out of the borderline and into the high category (I think of it as 140/90, but the top number varies a lot and not usually in a downward direction). I reluctantly agreed to try BP medication, but I would like to be able to monitor whether it's working or not, especially since I'm starting with a low dosage.
SO... does anybody have any experience with either of these items? Any recommendations?
In other news, my beloved Palm Tungsten E2 has decided to join the cavalcade of self-destructing appliances in my life and became unusable today. I've actually been very happy with it (except for the mechanical flaw that finally became lethal) so I may just stop at Best Buy on the way home and see if I can buy another one. But in case I don't find one and somebody has a better idea, feel free to suggest it.
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Date: 2008-01-14 08:40 am (UTC)I'm very pleased to see that they're now making humidifiers that are downright cute. Sure, many are marketed for kids, but that wouldn't stop me from getting a penguin humidifier.
There are a lot of gadgets out there with nifty blue lights that are cool, unless you have them in a room where you sleep and you don't like sleeping with lights like that glowing away.