Well, since it's always Backwards Day for me...tmr wrote: Some people needed to cut down on their BP meds because with the use of cpap it got lowered.
When I had my sleep study on July 29th, one of the rules was no caffeine after noon that day. For years I have had one Diet Coke with breakfast and one with an afternoon snack -- I don't drink coffee or tea and was desperately trying to stay awake. Since everything that I've read about sleep says that caffeine is a trap that messes up your sleep more, I decided the next day no caffeine either, and the next... I have completely given up diet soda and replaced it with drinking water. (The only other thing I drink is milk with lunch and sometimes dinner.)
I've been taking birth control pills with estrogen for 3.5 years for heavy bleeding, and my clinic PA no longer will prescribe them. I didn't find this out until I went for a refill when I went in to discuss my sleep study. They of course took my blood pressure and pulse, and it was elevated -- yes, after 4 weeks of no caffeine, pulse and BP went UP. So my PA doubled my dose of beta blocker as well as prescribing CPAP. Since she couldn't re-up the BCP script, I made an appointment with a gynecologist, which took some time. By the time I got there I had been off caffeine and artificial sweetners for 7 weeks, off the pill for 4 weeks, and doubled my beta blocker for two weeks. My blood pressure and pulse were both up MORE, AND I gained 5 lbs!
So, yeah, anybody who tells you that artificial sweetners make you fat, and caffeine raises your BP and pulse, and estrogen makes you fat and raises your BP -- I don't want to hear about it!!!