High blood pressure

Is here someone with high blood pressure?

Yes, I have blood pressure and take medication.

Yes, I have high blood pressure as well and take medication...can get as high at 160/100 for me if I'm stressed/excited.

Yes, I have it and have had since the early 1980s. I have been taking several different kinds of medication for years to control it, too. Why do you ask?

Me too. Why do you ask?

Me too, but it's treated with medication and back to normal. Why do you ask this question?

Yes, I have HBP. The doctors throw pills at you to keep it down without much regard to side effects, which include constant fatigue, and LDS, "limp dick syndrome". I have been able to cut down the prescribed meds by half and pretty much eliminate the symptoms while maintaining a reasonable pressure. I do supplement with some herbal compounds. Doctors don't have all the answers, keep an open mind but be safe as well.

As I am very nervous everytime I visit a doctor, I have been considered as having so-called "white coat HBP" for all my life. From 140/80 at 18 to 180/100 the last time I saw my company doctor three months ago ( I am now 61). As a matter of fact, she thought my BP was a bit too high, even with the "white coat" effect, so she refered me to a cardiologist, who had a 24 hours holster BP test done on me and concluded that I do have mild high blood pressure and put me on an "atenolol" treatment, probably for the rest of my llife. She said the treatment might also calm my anxiety.

I have been worried when I saw the list of possible side-effects of Atenolol, including loss of libido and erectible function, but none of this has happened (yet?) to me. I have noticed the slowing down of my cardiac rythm, but I still feel as anxious at the idea to visit this cardiologist again next month as she suggested me, even if she is an attractive lady, probablly in her late 30's..

When I was a child I had terrible white coat sindrome, once they put me a 24 h bp monitor, but luckily my bp was normal.

I have had high blood pressure since i was about 9 years old

Yup, on meds for the BP, and meds for the side effects. Welcome to modern medicine, here's a pill....

Yes I do. I've taken meds for it for about 15 years and it is well controlled.

I have borderline hbp.... without meds about 135/80... I take medication when I remember. I'm trying to be better about exercise and less salt.

My bp has been really high since age 14.. My first bp was 190/100. Usually around 240/180 without meds. Highest reading was 296/250 .

Approx. 20% of the population has hypertension; the percentage may be higher with the recently lowered threshold for making the diagnosis.

High blood pressure should be treated earlier with lifestyle changes and in some patients with medication – at 130/80 mm Hg rather than 140/90 – based on new ACC and American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for the detection, prevention, management and treatment of high blood pressure.

I predict and I'm not saying when, the medical community will either raise the BP for the diagnosis of hypertension to where it used to be OR stop prescribing meds at the new lower BP hypertension levels. Meds have side effects too, and the slight degree of lowering won't make a difference in the national health.

My problem is so-called white coat hypertension. When going to a new doctor my blood pressure is always high (sometimes dangerously so) but subsequent visits reduce it as I get used to him. So long as it continues to go down, no matter how gradually, the doctor is usually satisfied.

I used to take beta-blockers for aviation medicals but the Civil Aviation Authority has now banned them for pilots.

I think I'm borderline, when I have my BP taken at the doc office I'm usually 145/85.

When I measure it by myself I can get 125/80 only if I'm really relaxed and stand still, typically the Saturday or Sunday morning before leave the bed...but if I move or exercise a bit it skyrocket

I've had hypertension since my mid 20's. Back then, my dr was baffled as to why I'd have it, she sent me for a kidney IVP which took her a few years to talk me into. However, they couldn't complete it as I had a reaction to the dye. About 10 years later, I met my bio family and found out my bio mother had it, too. Which explains mine. Turns out I get almost everything she has, just at a younger age.

Mine is controlled well with medication. I don't notice side effects, just some occasional dizziness which is fairly new.

My sub was diagnosed with high blood pressure (with diastolic heart failure) in Dec. It is something genetic because his older brother had a very similar diagnosis a year and a half before.

He's on meds that have it lowered to a point the doctors seem happy. I just care it's lower.

His meds (I believe it is mainly one) have side effects that usually include him being uninterested in participating in his own day.

Hopefully with lower sodium and excersize he can get and keep it lower without their pills.

I have hypertension ( genetics ) and have been taking meds for years. Finally got on right medication, and with eating somewhat right, my BP has been normal with no side effects for years. 😃 I'm taking Amlodipine/benazepril 10/40 mg.

At 72 years old I have ALWAYS expected my BP to be in the 105-125/65-75 range. I generally see doctors (PCP, cardiologist, endocrinologist, nephrologist, urologist) and labs a total of at least 10 times a year. This past October out of nowhere I get a reading of HBP. And, it was so high the nurse practitioner would not let me leave the office to go home until after I took a med, waited about 20 minutes and the BP had dropped. It was 190/110 when she took it. I'm now on meds and it is generally in the 130/70 range. I have no idea what has caused this problem; but, I'm glad it was caught.

My BP is always high during a medical, real or play. White coat syndrome is the culprit.

When I check it at home it's generally within a normal range.

At home my blood pressure is completely fine. At the doctor’s it’s usually somewhere between 130-140/90. White coat syndrome is a bit embarrassing...haha.

I too have high blood pressure.Easiest way to get rid of it(if its not a condition that needs perscription drugs) is to lose weight and start a diet with no salt !

I too have high blood pressure.Easiest way to get rid of it(if its not a condition that needs perscription drugs) is to lose weight and start a diet with no salt !

Thin people who eat a "proper" diet get it, too. And yes, many times hypertension *does* need prescription drugs.

I have had high blood pressure since age 14. Started out as white coat hypertension but still have it as of today. Runs 170/100 without meds 130/86 with meds.

I've been hypertensive since age 13. The first time my pressure was taken it was 190/100. At 16 l had my first over 200 systolic. By 21 my pressure was dangerously high at 240/170. My highest reading was 375/320 measured via ALine. When the line was removed my blood shot across the room. I am currently on Vasotec, Lexxel, Plenhdil, Norvasc and Lopressor. With meds my pressure is 136/90.

Wow Bpdoc, those are some sky high pressures! Glad you've got it under control and hope the side effects of all the meds aren't bad.

I have been hypertensive since age 9.

I still recall the reading was 136/96. I am now 28 . My pressure is quite elevated without medication. I currently take 4 pressure pills. My pressure was 166/108 today.