Comments on: The Side Effects Of High Blood Pressure Medications

By: Jerry Cooke

Jerry Cooke — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:45:53 +0000

I have been taking blood pressure medicine for 2 months,but I only take half of what the doctor prescribed and it keeps my blood pressure at about 140/80 and pulse 49-62. I do not have any side effects from taking 25 Mg of Beta-blocker and 25 Mg of watr pill. Since my blood pressure has gone down my sex life has been better than it has been for several years and I’m 67 years old yesterday. I have changed my diet to more vegestables more fish and salmon, much less salt. I take extra supplements of Calcium,Magneism, garlic. I also exercise more and hope to get off medication someday but when I cut back on the drugs my blood pressure starts going up and it gets scary when it reaches 165/100 with a pulse of 85 bpm.

By: Barbara Mason

Barbara Mason — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:09:19 +0000

Dear Bernardine,
Do not stop your medication cold turkey, it can make the BP rapidly rise to higher than recorded when you first began BP medications.
Find something to replace it first and take both of themside by side. If you can purchase a BP testing kit, use it to monitor your readings daily. Only when you have been on a regularly reading of clear to normal levels, slowly wean your self from the medication.
The medication you are on at the moment, is it like a sweet with a hard coating? or is it like a powdery tablet? If it is a hard coating, you have to go back to the doctor and have the strength lowered, you can not cut hard coated medications as the hard coating is to protect certain parts of the internal organs as it travels through the digestive tract. If it is the powdery type, carefully cut the tablet into quarters, if you normally take 1 tablet per day, take 3/4 of a tablet per day. Keep a check on you BP over the next 4 weeks.
If all is well, start on a 1/2 tablet for the next 4 weeks, if there is any sign of BP rising, go back to the former dose that you took the previous 4 weeks.
Again if all goes well and you BP reading is holding steady, try to take a 1/4 tablet every day for 4 weeks.
If all is still going well, take a 1/4 tablet every 36 hours for two weeks. Hopefully by the time all this is done, your bodies dependancy on them should be a lot less and you should be able to get off them altogether.
It takes time to wean yourself off these and many other medications, It took me 6 months to wean my husband off Zoloft because it was screwing with his head big time. It was done very slowly and he had no withdrawal side effects.
Do not stop any Px medications instantly, it can do more harm than good.
Prepare to spends weeks or months to wean your self off very gradually.

By: Akua Abban

Akua Abban — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:48:31 +0000

Thank You very very much.

By: carol halkett

carol halkett — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:06:54 +0000

i am taking lipitor for high cholestrol and coversyl for high blood pressure, i also take a daily capsule of evening primrose and fish oil for rheumatism

By: Bernardine G. Dayo

Bernardine G. Dayo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:46:56 +0000

hi am just curious doctors say dont stop the medication, it can cause heart attack.So it is possible to stop my medication and concentrate on proper exercise and diet.Am afraid, pls. reply

By: Clyde List

Clyde List — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:38:02 +0000

In Re: Nutrition and the heart. I’ve noticed that the licorice root capsules I’ve been taking seem to smooth out my atrial fib (which I get when I drink too much coffee). Or am I just imagining things?

By: Ron Morel

Ron Morel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:47:14 +0000

I agree with you,taking some of those prescription drugs is like taking a loaded gun and pointing at yourself ,and saying good luck.Many of the drugs side effects are down right scary! Case in point,I just recently refused to take a
prescription drug due to its many harmful side effects.I told my doctor I`ll change my lifestyle instead - my diet,my daily exercise,and better sleeping habits. By the
way,the prescription drug in question was “APO-RAMIPRIL
5MG.” This was to help with my high blood pressure - hypertension. End of story…

By: Lee Secrest

Lee Secrest — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:38:47 +0000

Did you know that there is a simple chiropractic adjustment that lowers blood pressure? It is the atlas at the base of the skull. Check out NUCCA on the web.