Anyone suffering from high blood pressure?

[Babs2u]

I will if I find out anything. These doctors are hard to pin down. In the meantime I will try Google.

Looks like it could be any number of things: stress, medication, sodium, kidney disease, changes in blood vessels. I see my PCP in a few days for annual physical. There might be a clue.

 

[Babs2u]

I don’t know if the two meds that the doctors have me on have the HCTZ.
I take Amlodipine Besylate and Cardivilol both twice a day.
New cardiologist cut my 12.5mg of cardivilol in half because he thought that my pulse was running too slow.
Then he retired and my BP went way up and I had to go back to the 12.5 cardivilol and doubled my amlodipine besylate from 2.5mg to 5mg both twice a day.
That got my BP right again and my pulse is better too.
I will have to ask the doctors if there are any problems with that dosage.
I was born with only one kidney and am a CKD patient although not in bad shape or needing dialysis.

Doc just added carvedilol to amlodipine and lisinopril.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I don’t know if the two meds that the doctors have me on have the HCTZ.
I take Amlodipine Besylate and Cardivilol both twice a day.

I'm not familiar with those, but I checked and neither seem to work as a dieuretic. The mechanism is to relax blood vessels. I take Doxazsin for that, but it was prescribed for a different reason other than blood pressure.

It's surprising how many different approaches there are to BP control, but good news your BP stabliized.

I plan to monitor my BP more closely, since the effectiveness of what we're on seems to change over time.