I never had a doctor, but growing up when ever I had my blood pressure checked the resting rate was 100 or higher, when it should have been more like 80.

Then in my 30's, I felt healthy as ever when I collapsed on my kitchen floor with a heart attack. I'm lucky I was able to get up to get help, (they say about 50 percent of heart attack people are unable to get up and die instead) I ended up having emergency Open Heart Surgery, or what they call a Quadruple Bypass.

Don't let your high blood pressure go on untreated for to long. There is hospitals that will see you even without insurance. They will test your blood pressure over several appointment to determin if you have high blood pressure. There is generic pills that only cost $10 for 3 months worth that can control high blood pressure. I wish I know this before, but now you do.