high and low blood pressure readings

Dear OCEANBLUE:

Thanks so much for your post.  I am a moderator for the site and though medically trained I will try to hep find answers to your questions.

It seems you really need to consult with your physician on this.

Yuo may, in the meantime, want to review the contact on our High Blood Pressure Treatment section.

All the best, sue 

It was the stopping benicar that did that.  I was on benicar for awhile but lost weight and I was getting low readings and the doctor told me to stop the benicar.  In a weeks time my blood pressure shot up.  I went to the ER and the ER doctor told me about the rebound effect.  Sometimes with medicines like benicar you have to be weaned off not stop suddenly.  Because benicar that a week or more to get into your system/or out that is why it took about a week for the blood pressure to go up.  I started back on the benicar (40mg) and it took a week for my blood pressure to go low again.  That was 3 months ago.  I am now on 5mg of benicar and hope to be off completely soon.  I was weaned slowly (40mg to 20mg to 10mg to 5mg).  I think more people need to know about rebound (maybe more doctors) because until it happened to me I never heard of blood pressure meds doing that.