Thanks all. Acting on the advice of my mother-in-law (aged 91 going on 92, blind but sharp-witted as ever,) I've gone to a diuretic (40mg furosemida) mornings and half a beta blocker (2.5mg bisoprolol fumerato) evenings.
BP is now 135/85 pretty well constant. No side effects, either.
Any future 'spikes' lasting less than 48hrs will be ignored.
Wheat Belly: virtually every supermarket here sells 'fresh' bread. However it's made from premixed dough delivered by trucks each day. The resulting bread lasts about five days before going stale. OTOH, a local French bakery sells it's own bread from it's own dough and it goes stale in 24 hours. If you have to eat bread, the latter is the most healthy.
Last edited by OFSO; 24th Oct 2013 at 13:31.