My blood pressure is not reducing despite all efforts?

Question

I am 39 years of age. My blood pressure is 90/145. I am under medication. I have changed my life style a lot, changed my job to less stressfull one, have been doing cardio vascular excercise from the past 8 months. My diet is also very controlled. Despite all these efforts, my blood pressure does not come down.

Please suggest something.

Answer 1

You say your being medicated, so your seeing a Dr. Why don't you talk to him/her. Medical professionals do not diagnose over the Internet.

Answer 2

You've received a lot of good ideas here, but you need to do them all.

Ask for a referral to a registered dietician, so that you can make certain your diet is the best that it can be. But do that after having both your cholesterol levels and your blood sugar checked.

Type II diabetes is a metabolic disorder that has a number of symptoms, including high cholesterol and high blood pressure. If you are diabetic and don't know it (you'd have a lot of company - it's estimated that for every person who has been diagnosed with Type II diabetes, there's another person with it who hasn't been diagnosed), then all the work that you're doing on your hbp won't do that much good. You want to make certain that your doctor orders both a blood glucose test and an Hba1C test. These are fasting blood tests. The first is a "snapshot" of your blood sugar level and the second, because it measure something a bit different, gives a 3 - 4 month indication of your blood glucose levels. An a1C of over 6% is diabetic. But you can be diabetic and in good control and have an a!c under 6%. Tha's from personal experience.

Also, if you haven't already done so, you should also see a cardiologist.

Answer 3

Are you controlling your diet in a way that will balance your blood sugar, thus controlling insulin production? High insulin (hyperinsulinemia) is the root cause for high blood pressure due to athero or arterio sclerosis, according to the books I am reading.

If you have a fasting blood insulin test, on the American scale 10 is borderline high. I do not know if this scale is used in other countries, and I don't know what the measure is (like parts per milliliter or such).

A diabetic diet that controls blood sugar by reducing or eliminating high glycemic foods should be helpful in reducing blood pressure.

Answer 4

I am wondering if you meant your bp is 145/90? Physicians will tell you that hypertension can be difficult to treat. If your current medication is not working, the medication should be changed or another med added; this is not unusual at all.
Also, the ethnic group plays a part in treating hypertension. I am Black, and learned that treating hbp in my ethnic group is the most difficult. I went through many med changes before we found the right combination to control my bp. This was the same for my dad and sister.
If you are using a bp monitor that are for home use, be aware that they are very unreliable. Mine was showing my bp as really high so I went to doc and it was on the low side! He said to bring my machine with me at each visit for a comparison. By the way, my machine is really expensive, so cost does not make a difference.
My suggestion would be to see your physician on a regular basis. It may take a little time, and patience on your part, but your bp can be controlled. Good luck to you.

Answer 5

My mother tried a new drug called norvasc...she had the same problem, and was on three different drugs for the high blood pressure, then got prescribed the very lowest dose of Norvasc, and it has been a miracle for her...you should try it!

Answer 6

Have they worked you up for renal artery stenosis or pheochromoctoma? Pheochromocytoma is very rare - here is a link to an article http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7440/629

Answer 7

May need to have your Cholesterol Checked, maybe need a little Medication in that area.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I had the very same problem, I went back to My dr's she gave me a diffrent medicine to take its Perfect now

Answer 10

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