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My name is Lisa and I am 36 years old.  I smoke a pack a day and I am a heavy beer drinker (more than 4 per day).  I have been on BP meds for 8 to 9 years.  Initial dosage 50 mg of atenolol and 37.5 mg of a diuretic.  This dosage worked until a year and a half ago.  I've changed medicines and dosages several times and I am becoming increasing frustrated.  I have seen BP numbers that scare me, the highest being 178/117 which happened last summer of last year. I was on Avalide at the time.  I went to the dr yesterday on 100mg of atenolol and 10mg of plendil.  BP 147/108.  He increased the plendil to 20mg.   I am cutting back on the smoking and drinking but I have not seen any results.  I just don't know what to do.  I have made an appointment to see another dr on Friday.  What's happening?

Dr Gandelman,

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I am a 57 year old female with very high blood pressure.  I have been hospitalized twice with pressure of 225 over 140.  I am very thin, very athletic and have a very healthy diet.  I currently take 60 mil. of Benicar per day and while it helps a good day is still 165 over 90.  I have tried every other drug and/or combination thereof that is on the market.  Either the side effects are too extreme or it does not work for me.  I have shortness of breath and the beginnings of heart problems.  With the exception of arthritic like symptoms caused I believe by the Benicar I am healthy.  I have also tried specialists in this field and no one seems to have any better advice.  By the way my stress level is low to average.  So I am hoping you will be able to advise me.  I seem to fall into a small group that whose pressure does not respond to anything.  Can you help?

Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Tam 

I am happy you have started this useful belog. I am a cardiologist at Sialkot Pakistan, have also a website http://www.highbloodpressuremed.com Hope it will help lot of patients of hypertension. Wish you good luck

Hi Dr. Glenn,

Welcome to HighBloodPressure community community.

I bought a Blood Pressure equipment last week. I am checking by blood pressure everday 4 -5 times and my blood pressure fluctuate so often. Do you think there is some problem with me or my blood pressure equipment. Here is the equipment I bought

Blood Pressure Equipment

I appriciate your help.

Thanks

Laura

I found out last week that I had high blood pressure (150/109). The Dr said he wanted to monitor me for a month. My wife is a distributor for nutritional products and following her recommendations, four days later, I measured at 123/69. No kidding. If you are interested in hearing more of what worked for me; send me a message.

Take Care, Steve Adams okcfam@hotmail.com

Hi,

Here is a great video on High Blood Pressure. I'd highly recommend it for everyone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAmLbclSucQ

People need to understand how important it really is to be within the healthy blood pressure range as it is the silent killer.

I agree that using a blood pressure monitor at home is a good way to check your blood pressure as often as you want that helps you control it better. It can also warn you if there's something wrong with your health before it becomes more serious symptom.

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