which blood pressure medicines are the least expensive?

Answer 1

BLOOD PRESSURE is termed as SILENT KILLER. So you can not opt to take cheap or less expensive medicines for treatment. You should only talk medicine prescribed by your physician. Of course you can ask your doctor himself to prescribe a less expensive medicine, duly explaining your financial aspect.

In the meantime you should also natural remedies to reduce Blood Pressure by changing your food and life style habits. Please follow the remedies given below and it will definitely give you relief. :

High Blood Pressure Natural Remedies:

1. Taking naturally occurring substances:

- Potassium: This works. Expect an average reduction in systolic pressure of 4.4 mm Hg.
- Calcium: This works but to a lesser extent, perhaps a third as much as potassium. Look for an average of 1.4 mm Hg.
- Fish oil supplementation: As good as potassium. Expect about 4.5 mm Hg reduction in systolic pressure. Unpleasant side-effects for 1/3 of people.
- Magnesium: Frequently touted as one of the high blood pressure natural remedies. Inadequate data provides no reason to believe it works. Small studies demonstrated mixed results.

2. Avoiding naturally occurring substances:

- Salt (Sodium chloride) : Provides some of the best results in pressure reduction. Cut your salt by a little more than half and see a 6.8 mm Hg reduction in systolic.
- Saturated fat: Eating vegetables and fruits and other preferred food in place of saturated fats reduces systolic by 5.5 mm Hg.Excellent.
- Excess alcohol: Hold it down to 2 or 3 drinks a day and see a 2.6 mm Hg reduction. African-American men get twice as much benefit.
- Caffeine and Nicotine: These substances have a transient effect on blood pressure and don’t contribute to a sustained elevation. Elimination of these does not affect average blood pressure. We all can think of reasons to quit smoking

3. Lifestyle modifications:

- Proper diet: Eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and low-fat dairy products lowers blood pressure by 5.5 mm Hg systolic and you don’t have to lose weight.
- Exercise: My favorite. Expect at least 4 mm Hg reduction. Many other benefits as well.
- Weight loss: 4.5 mm Hg systolic drop. Could be a lot more. Other benefits accrue not the least of which are “lookin’ good” and “feelin’ good”. -


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Answer 2

I don't know which are the least expensive, but i know one which is very effective for high blood pressure, its not medicines, its a kind of natural health product, its called artic sea, which is Forever Living Products. If you are interested, you can email me.

Answer 3

I'm using lisinopril, and it's pretty cheap. It's an ace-2 inhibitor and there are many of them (they all end with "pril"). They recently published that more old-fashioned pills, such as the diuretics, work as well as the ace-2 inhibitors in lowering blood pressure, and they might be even cheaper.

However, one advantage of ace-2 inhibitors is (besides the fact that you don't need to go to the loo at night) that they also have some anti-inflammatory effect. Inflammation is as worse as blood pressure for heart disease...

Anyway, I like lisinopril, and it costs me something like 8$/month in copay. It's available as a generic.

Answer 4

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