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Do you adjust your blood pressure meds to suit blood pressure readings
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Mar 12 2:58pm | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
Skipping medication doses because your BP reading are normal is ridiculously silly. The reason they are now normal is because you take the medication as prescribed. Your doctor prescribed you the anti hypertension drug for a reason. Just because your reading look good does not mean stopping the medication. You still carry a diagnosis of hypertension if BP is controlled on medication. You aren’t hypertensive one day and not the next.
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@jenatsky Thanks, but not talking daily differences -- just morning, afternoon or evening high or normal BP reading differences, and making only slight med adjustments. On 3 different meds -- 2 prescribed for twice a day I take morning and afternoon or evening, and the other in the morning *if* BP is over 111. So I have the opportunity to skip an occasional dose at my discretion. And my levels have decreased overall since these were first prescribed following stroke 10 months ago. Will consult my doctor.