Curious, how many here have high blood pressure and take medication for it??

[a kennedy]

What’s your total milligrams?? I’m on a 10 mg, but Dr. Wants me to take another pill with 5 mg to really get my blood pressure into the normal range. I’m very new to this whole ordeal.

[woodsprite]

1. I do. For the past 7 years.

I’m on Lisinopril 40mg per day and Amlodipine 10mg per day.

I’ve started exercising and watching my salt and carb intake. I may need to halve my dose of Lisinopril according to my dr. They take my bp before and after exercise, and last week I had a reading of 89/60 post workout.

[unweird]

2. Used to take Losartan Potassium 50mg

Took it for a couple of years but bp wasn’t ever too high. I’ve got a bp cuff and check it most days. Last summer it got down enough that I came off the script. I still monitor it and will share my logs with dr at annual physical. I’m hanging around the benchmark 120/80.

[Freddie]

5. Also Losartan

Can remember the mg, it’s yellow. Works for me. DH takes 3 BP meds, he has a family history of heart disease.

[lapfog_1]

3. 10mg lasinopril

and it normally does the job but by nighttime my blood pressure goes into the higher range... so I am thinking to change medication

[TheBlackAdder]

4. I was Hypertensive Crisis, went on Keto-16Grams/Day Diet and 3 months later returned to normal.

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I went to an 18-6 Intermittent Diet, which is quite easy to do (eat dinner, coffee for breakfast as an appetite suppressant and poof, it's 2PM). By the 3rd month, I lost 20 lbs and that started to bring everything back to normal. By month 5, the floaters in my eyes disappeared. It took 8 months for my fatty liver to repair itself. In all, I dropped over 50lbs in less than a year and returned to my weight I was 30 years ago.

I chose Keto 16 Grams because everyone goes into and out of ketosis at different gram levels, but everyone is in ketosis if you eat only 16 grams of carbs per day. I also discovered a neat hack. After being on it for 2 months, you can have a cheat meal every 2-3 days and it won't kick you out of it, but if you do kick out of it, you just resume it and you'll switch back into it quickly.

When COVID hit, I did not know if the Keto diet was good for it, which it turns out is is. But I went back to a carb diet and gained weight back, then sleep apenea tripped AFib and now I am back on Keto again and trying to repair my body. I never should have gone off of it. It only took 2 years to fuck my body up by returning to a 'conventional' diet.

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[phylny]

8. Thank you for sharing this detailed information!

[randr]

6. I lowered my BP by eliminating sugar

I was consuming sugar through a lemonade product I didnt know hsd so much sugar. My BP dropped 30 points in less than a week. My studies of all the drugs they offered led me to the conclusion that the medical/pharmacutical industry is more interested in addressing symptoms than causes. The side affects of most "blood thinners" many times lead to more drugs to counter newer issues.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. It is worse than useless to state a quantity of medication but not the kind. . . . . nt

[WheelWalker]

9. I take five different BP meds, one each from five different classes of drug.

Three in the a.m, two in the p.m. Began at age 34 with a beta-blocker.