Hi everyone -
I have recently lost 12 pounds - gave up drinking 2 months ago - and I have had a change in my blood pressure. I was on 25 MG of Atenolol which I have been on for the past four years, and I was getting readings in the low 100's over the low 70's for the past week. I did a reading today and it was 132/98 which really worried me. My cardiologist took me off of Benicar about a week ago because he said I was too over-medicated and it was causing my heart to speed up at nights. Now that I am on just the atenolol - I have had good readings, but now today, I didn't. I want to get off the medication totally. I have made lifestyle changes and I get one bad reading which is very upsetting and frustrating to me. Do I let it ride and see what my reading would be in a week?
