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Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jun 26, 2018 | Replies (74)

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@dawn_giacabazi

@llecrup welcome. Is it safe to assume this is your diagnosis?

I was admitted to St Marys Mayo Clinic with blood pressures of 300/208. It has taken about 11 months to get my readings down. There are so many reasons for someone to have resistant hypertention. Are you actively looking for the cause?

Warm smiles,
Dawn

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It is one of my diagnosis.I also have carotid artery disease,peripheral artery disease, coronary artery disease carotid stenosis, cholesterol issues, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy which led to bilateral AKA. I had coronary bypass in nov. , double stents in another artery, renal artery stenosis which was stented in Jan.My nephrologist and cardiologist are actively looking for a cause. Bp meds have included labetalol, metoprolol, isosorbide, Cartia XT, clonidine, chlorthalidone and spironolactone. I am currently off all those meds and on an old school drug my cardiologist has resurrected called reserpine. I was admitted to hosp. about a month ago with a pressure 260/140.Discharged about 10 days ago on the reserpine .25.initially there was some response however numbers are creeping back up again with a pressure today of 204/110 and yesterday 214/121.