actually...
your blood pressure has come down, by reducing the prednisone.
Your diastolic number (the second number) is almost 20 points lower.
This number is the destructive one.
The upper number is systolic, and variable. Often fluid retention, and age,
can make it higher. In the past higher systolic has often been ignored by doctors,
but today it is more aggressively monitored. You might see the upper number
change if you eat high potassium containing foods. Prednisone depletes potassium on a daily basis.
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