After 11 years of natural self treatment and perfect tests including blood pressure of 120/80, chest pains panicked a doctor to give me a chemical stress test and then an Angiogram. Ever since then, blood pressure has been high. Could it be the unnatural chemical stress test? All other tests have [...]

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Dr. Gardner — Do you have to be weaned off diltiazem or can you just stop it and switch to herbal alternatives?
Diltiazem is a calcium channel blocker used to control blood pressure.
All blood pressure medications should be weaned off gradually, and never stopped at full dosage ‘cold turkey.’ It should  be done under the supervision [...]

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Two Questions: My husband is taking Amlodipine Besylate 5 mg per day for blood pressure.  After taking it he feels hot.  What do you recommend taking? He also was diagnosed 8 years ago with autoimmune hepititus which they think is due to taking the antibiotic Avolox.
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Weaning off blood pressure medication-topropol and ramipril. Why am I on both? Are they needed at all?
Without more information, no specific recommendations can be made. Toprol and Ramipril are blood pressure medications that are in two different categories.
The philosophy in conventional medicine is: 1. blood pressures above 120/80 cause an increase in cardiac events (heart [...]

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How does elevated blood pressure affect other organs in our body?  I have had BP around 135-140/80 for years, and my new doc is trying to convince me to go on meds as he says my BP will affect kidney, liver, and just about everything else.
Your doctor has bought into the prevailing [...]

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Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
U.S. Neglects High Blood Pressure
The Institute of Medicine said that nearly one in three adults have hypertension recently, and feels that doctors are not treating it aggressively.  “If you live long enough, you’re almost guaranteed to get hypertension,” said Dr. Corinne Husten of Partnership for Prevention, a [...]

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I have worked with 15 disabled veterans who have complained of coughing while on Lisinopril for their blood pressure.  It stopped when they used Fosinopril.  Can you explain this?
There are 6 categories of medications that are used for blood pressure control.  Lisinopril is in the category of an ACE inhibitor, which means that it [...]

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I have been on blood pressure medication for a couple of years, but would like to get off. My only side effect is it causes me to cough at times. Is it best to wean oneself off the meds gradually?
Blood pressure medicines need to be weaned gradually, because the body

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