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Advice for hypertension
Hello sir
I have had hypertension ranging from 170/110 to 160/110 since about three months and I approached ahealth centre and monitord bp for 1 week but still bp same range. before I take any medication I tried to change my lifestyle and I started doing exercises and eating healthy food for about 1 month but unfortunately nothing changed at last I decided to start treatment .my physician prescribed me lisinopril 5mg and i used the medication for about two weeks then one of my friends from another country discussed my problem with a doctor in his country and prescribed another medication Concor 5 milligrams. I started using the new medication for about one month and my bp became normal. then I stopped using the medication for about one month . During that time mystolic was between 120-140 while my diastolic was always above 100 . Now i startes using concor again
My questions are
1which mediation is the best ?
2can i give up using medication one day?
3what advice would u give?
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You have stage 2 hypertension so u will require medicines with life style modifications for long period.if BP is controlled with concor 5 mg then continue same .
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Dr. Ajeya N. Ukadgaonkar
Interventional Cardiologist
13 yrs exp
Aurangabad
Hello,
With BP of 170/110, you have to start medications in addition to lifestyle modifications. Only Concor will not help you here as it is a second line anti hypertensive agent. You have to start a double drug combination of first line drugs like ARB, CCB or Thiazide like Diuretics.
Your medications can stop in long time if you have modifiable risk factors like obesity, sedentary lifestyle, smoking etc, which you can take care of with good diet and regular exercise. But, if there are no modifiable risk factors, this essential hypertension may need medicines forever. Very important thing is BP medicines are to be taken very regularly. You can not stop it in between because your BP is normal as it is normal because of medicines. Once you stop it it will increase again. So do not stop or change medicines without consulting a doctor. Also you need to do some investigations.
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Dr. Sanjeev Kumar
Cardiologist
19 yrs exp
Hyderabad
Any medication that bring you to ok range .
Yes u can give up if food and weight control become effective.
Continue medication for now
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