Why do medications meant to lower my BP raise it instead?

That is the regime I have been on for the last month, though only three weeks of no caffeine. Water: 10 1/2 cups a day (for kidney stones). Now I am low-sodium which distresses the endocrinologist. Exercise: swimming laps, lifting weights, working with PT on balance (not new, and the eating low-sodium is also not new, also for kidney stones.) Have done the DASH diet twice with no results. Have extensive experience with low-carb diet which usually lowers BP like a rock but I am one of the 25% that doesn't get that result. Still have the big spikes.
Of course if I moved to England my BP would improve instantly, since they didn't lower the "normal" cutoff for BP - possibly because patients don't pay for prescriptions. Or perhaps they are hopelessly backward. I haven't checked their death rates.

I have had issues with my BP for the past year. I took meds like clock work. Because it scared me. I went for a few months of good all the time. Then a few months of high BP and it freaked me out. Finally after a few er visits. (I) figured it out. The pharmacy would change the manufacture. I talked to my dr and she put. Note on my file that I could only have this certain manufacturer. And walla. Was great. Then like 9 months later I was getting sick again. Went. Few days and then checked my new prescription and it changed again. I called pharmacy and they refilled it and all has been good since. Now I got a lot of slack from Pharmacy that the prescription was the same. I said no. They said yes. I said then why is one round and the other is oval. Right there they r different. Needless to say I h a v e’d Spence had a stent put in I feel better except out of breath. I have done some research and found that the metoprolol is famous for making some out of breath. I have stopped it and bp went from 157/80 to o 113/56. Crazy. But going to give it a few days to see if my breathing improves and bp stays lower. Try and keep track of the manufacturers on your meds. That could be some of your issues. Good luck to all

Hopefully you have figured it out since this was posted a year ago. But I suspect its due to a pheochromocytoma. Its a rare tumor found in your adrenal gland. It produces and secreets massive amounts of adrenaline, epinephrine, metanephrine in your system. It took me going to 49 Drs and them telling me I was crazy before mine was found. I was literally dying. Had blood pressure of 220/140 every day even though I was on 3 BP meds. I was having "episodes" the Drs called them panic attacks and said I was drug seeking. of course I looked like a druggy because within a couple months I was down to 85 pounds. I stopped sleeping, stopped going to the bathroom. I sweat like crazy but my hands and feet felt like ice. My joints were bright red and inflamed. ANyway, it was not fun.... iuf you have any of these symptoms, I would ask for a 24 hour urine analysis and CT scan.

I’m having same issues but it’s funny tye dr, says oh you’re different snd doesn’t know why it goes up then they increase dose and it goes over 200. What combination have you used ? Currently on lossrtan snd I heard vslsartsn is better? Maybe with amlodopine because Coreg is pushing down my heart rate in tye 40s?

Yes true. I have dealt with that. Obviously there are others with increased Bp but my dr. Snd . Dr. Both make me feel abnormal. I also have bad reaction say when they increase it from 25 mg. To 50 mg. To get it lower and that works OK for a week and then it shoots up to over 200 because I’m taking too many milligrams and I guess my body doesn’t like that.. it’s such a struggle.!what combinations have you been prescribed because I definitely need two pills to work together because one doesn’t do the job?

I fought High BP for 15 years then it got real bad. I was put on every combo of drugs you can be. Saw all the locals then cardiologists then it started getting bad enough I was ending up in the ER. Last ER trip had BP about 240/140 and HR that was crazy high also. 2 days in the hospital they said there’s nothing wrong with me go home. Long story short I Drove 12 hours to get to Mayo in Rochester where the nephrologist knew right away. He said he suspected an adrenal tumor. He was correct. In my case though both are active so surgery is out and I’m left fighting the high blood pressure for life but it’s better than it was with the drugs Mayo has me on. In most cases they cut out the problem gland and the patient is cured.
A word of caution in my experience most local Drs are idiots. Mine are so incompetent that when Mayo said get an adrenal scan looking for a tumor and the local “specialist” ordered my scan and the local radiologist read it they said I have no adrenal tumors. Luckily the Mayo Dr wanted the scans so they could verify this fact. They found tumors in both my glands. Both active. Unfortunately for me there is no cure and treatment is only partially affective. But I’m still much better off than I was since I would certainly be dead by now if not for Mayo.
Turns out a common cause of resistant hypertension is adrenal tumors.

"the Drs called them panic attacks and said I was drug seeking"
I think the first class in Med School is called "how to blame the patient 101". When in doubt blame the patient: the famous western medicine trick.