DrugBuyers.Com: Hydro Holiday.....an observation and ??

Perhaps I was not clear, or you misunderstood me. Maybe I am misunderstanding you.
What I was trying to state is that I DO NOT have hypertension. I couldn't think of the word...what I stated was that 'my blood pressure is not normally high', but like many people, circumstances, chemical and/or environmental variables can cause blood pressure to rise. I'm not saying dangerously so, but as you stated, BP fluctuates throughout the day, and many events, stress, medicines, possibly even sex can raise or lower BP.

I did had high blood pressure when I was pregnant. I do know that if my blood pressure rises, I often get flushed and my face gets red or ruddy.
I am not medicating myself for hypertension. If I suspected that I had high blood pressure(my mom has it) I would certainly seek the advice of my Doctor. It goes without saying that all medications and even vitamins, teething tablets (homeopathic) and other natural and homeopathic items are always out of reach of our children.
I've not been sleeping well and probably have over reacted, but I feel the need to defend myself. And again, I don't doubt that I may have taken your post/advice the wrong way due to just being irritable right now, but I am going to explain myself anyway.
If you are questioning my use of clonidine, I did purchase it in hopes of helping with W/D from either planned or unplanned holidays. Sometimes things go wrong and holidays are forced, sometimes I think my body needs a break, and sometimes my pain level decreases where I don't need narcotic medicine for my pain, but I will have physical withdrawal if I stop taking it.(And for the record, reading this forum and interacting with others that have severe, daily, long term pain, makes me put away the pity party supplies and realize that my condition/pain could be much worse, and I am very fortunate to sometimes have breaks from the pain).
The reason that I chose clonidine is actually because of a previous experience. I was put on the anti depressant imipramine, along with klonipin, many, many years ago, by an idiot psychiatrist. I was also drinking quite a bit and was forthright with this doc about that. I was in my mid 20's had been married since I was 16 and was going through a divorce. Many of us ignore the warnings of mixing certain drugs togther or with alcohol. I can tell you first hand that if you ever take imipramine, heed those warnings! I went on a drinking binge a few days after being on the meds, and went nutso. Literally nutso. I was not a drunk or alcoholic , but did a lot of weekend Partying. I don't know if it was the drug or what, but instead of the 'normal'(at that time) getting drunk, going home and sleeping it off and waking the next day with a bad head, I apparently drank for about a 36 hour period, with no sleep. I also lost track of how much medication I took and judging from the number of pills that were left in the bottle, I must have decided to go ahead and take a weeks worth in one dose. To this day don't know what I did, but at some point, someone(thankfully) decided I was a danger to myself and I earned a week long evaluation stay on the psych ward at the hospital. My Doctor put me on clonidine to ward off hangover and w/d from drinking so long and so much. It really worked.( I think that was the ONLY good thing that Doc did for me) I was a bit tired and quite confused and embarrassed, but virtually had no hangover the next day. So, that is the reason I chose clonidine. I figured if it helped alcohol w/d why not give it a shot for narcotic w/d.
I was careful with both the clonidine and the buprenorphine, and in fact took too little of the buprenorphine the first day. But, I am always cautious when taking any drug that I have not taken before, prescriptons and OTC, because I often react differently than what seems to be the 'norm'.
Sorry...got long winded here again. One of these days I am going to post a short 2 or 3 sentence post...I swear I am!

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Cheers,
B~