Hello!

I’d forgotten that you’re a day ahead of those of us on the other side of the Pacific. I’m surprised I hadn’t remembered because I have a correspondent in Perth with whom I’m exchanging messages every three or four days.

I, too, have tried a medley of blood pressure medications. Today, I take only a low-dose Losartan (25 mg), once daily. Until recently, I was taking both a higher dose Losartan (50 mg, also 100 mg), once daily; also, Amlodipine (spelling?). Amlodipine, it seems, comes with foot and leg swelling as an undesirable side effect; when I complained to my primary doctor about such swelling, she took me off the Amlodipine. That happened right about the time I got my sepsis infection. The various medications I was given to fight that infection wreaked havoc with my blood pressure. Now that I’m getting over the infection, I’m waiting to see if my low-dose Losartan will settle my blood pressure right about where it should be.

As far as supplements go, I take 2000 units of D3 daily, as well as a ‘medicinal food’ called EB-N5.
EB-N5 (available in the U.S. by prescription only) is a power packet of various vitamins, including the non-toxic B6 pyridoxal phosphate, which may aid (if I’m lucky) my neuropathy.

Cheers!
Ray