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High Blood Pressure can be controlled |
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It is very easy to come out of you Doctors Surgery
(or Healthcare Practitioners Surgery) after you have
been diagnosed with High Blood Pressure and admit
defeat totally.
It is the easiest option to take, to just sit back
and say to yourself “OK, I’ll have to come to terms
with the pills then” but why should you when with a
little bit of effort you can control this condition
that you have?
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It is probably the hardest of the options placed
in front of you but isn’t the end result worth
it?
It all really boils down to how badly you want
it?
If your High Blood Pressure is largely brought
about by being slightly over weight then isn’t
the bonus of not only looking and feeling better
when you lose the pounds but you actually feel a
lot better from the inside out as well?
Believe me it does feel good and you do feel
great afterwards.
The one important thing that you have to try
understand right from the start is what are the
main contributory factors that brought about the
High Blood Pressure in the first place? This may
not always be totally possible to find out and
it might indeed be almost impossible to get by
without some form of medication for the rest of
your life but it is a target that is well worth
aiming for.
In my case when I was diagnosed with High Blood
Pressure my initial Blood Pressure reading was
216 over 160! A little on the high side I must
admit and looking back on it, being told of how
high my high blood pressure was at the time made
me feel slightly intimidated if not a little
worried.
I try not to sound too glib about this whole
episode because the reading was extremely high
and was (as I found out afterwards) extremely
dangerous but I guess it was my ignorance of the
whole condition that initially got me through
that particular few days.
Concentrated and enforced bed rest, plus
medication brought the blood pressure levels
down to manageable proportions and then I was
able to start to plan my way forward from there.
Initially the medication was a mixture of
amlodipine, bendroflumethiazide to act as a
slight diuretic to make sure that water
retention was not a major issue and additional
cause of blood pressure.
Finally after a few months they prescribed a
small amount of one of the new wonder drugs the
Medical Fraternity is going on about – one of
the statins. In my case Pravastatin.
I was diagnosed with HBP in June 2001 and since
then my BP levels have never been over 130/140
over 80/87. I am 48 and so quite frankly these
levels would be right on the button if I can
keep maintaining them.
However over the past two years the levels have
been constant and my last reading was 120 over
80 and I am at present, in consultation with my
Doctor, experimenting with reducing the
medication.
As of the time of this first part of the
article, We have managed to reduce the
amlodipine and I am just taking the “Bendro”
plus the statin. I have to say that increased
exercise and a slight change of diet have
helped. In part two of this article I will go
into more detail of how I have managed to bring
this all about and also the plans for the
future.
So to recap. You can reduce your Blood Pressure
naturally but in most cases with medication and
you can do something positive about keeping it
down as well.
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