No high blood pressure before heart surgery, why blood pressure medicine after?

Question

In Aug., clean bill of health, end of Sept., five by-passes. Three at 90% and two at 75%. If I didn't have high blood pressure with those blockages, why do I need high blood pressure medicine now???

Answer 1

Could be more than one reason your cardiologist prescribed BP meds. Really depends on which med you were prescribed. Lower BP causes the heart to have to work less to get the blood to the body, which in turn allows the heart muscle to require less blood. Another reason BP meds can be prescribed is that some BP meds dilate your vessels (makes the blood vessel open up more) which allows more blood to pass with less force. This dilation will also affect your heart vessels allowing your heart muscle to receive more blood and therefore oxygen to perform.
Whatver the cause, I doubt the blood pressure medication has anything to do with your actual blood pressure, but more to take some work load off of your already stressed heart.

Answer 2

High blood pressure kills millions of people every year, millions. It is called the silent killer because you have no noticeable symptoms until the damage done by high pressures is so great that you die from things like kidney failure, heart failure and stroke. At your age, you should not have any high blood pressure, regardless of the potential causes... because the damage done by high blood pressure is cumulative and lasting. With a high blood pressure at 22, if you do nothing you will be looking at death by 32 from heart attack or stroke or something else. Whether your high blood pressure is due to your being overweight or stressed out or too much salt in your diet, is secondary to the fact that you have it at all. You MUST take steps to control it now... if you don't want to take meds, then you'd best lose weight, cut salt out of your diet and take stress management classes, but do whatever you must to get that blood pressure down, or it will kill you and sooner than you think.

Answer 3

Blood Pressure medicines also control the heart beat. When one gets more supply of blood to the heart after CABG (Bypass), the heart enjoys it by having more beats per minute. So a lower dosage of BP medicine is given to the patient to control the heart.

Answer 4

To avoid a sudden rise on your blood pressure that could cause any ripping on the stitches or tissues.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

use of these meds after bypass has been shown to have a protective effect on adverse cardiac events.

Answer 7

preventative measure. you should've asked your cardiologist