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Reduction of dose of bp medicine
I had a BP reading mesuring 150 - 90 before 1.5 year and doctor had advised me to start taking talmisartan 40 mg which i am regularly taking since lat 1 .5 year. Now my BP readings are 142- 84 . I have also started physical exercises like walking etc. and also reduced salt and fatty foods . Now i would like to get advise on whether i could quit the medicine or could reduce the doses
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Dr. Ashwin M Daware
Cardiologist
23 yrs exp
Bangalore
You need to continue medical therapy as we are controlling your bp and not curing it. You can get your bp monitoring done by our cardiac team remotely as little as 5rs per day.
It will help u reduce the bp complications such as stroke heart attack. For details visit www.skymedical.in
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