can high blood pressure resolve itself with no lifestyle changes.
almost 10 years ago i was diagnosed at 30 with hpb. i wore a holter monitor which put me at an average of 145/95 or something like that so i was put on atenolol 50mg. had that for years. i also have had a high pulse... resting at about 100. atenolol brought it down to maybe 90ish.
so anyways i was in the hospital for a different matter and the nurse said to me in the morning when she was doing my stats 'you have pretty low bp'. the lowest it got was maybe 96/60 or around there. but on average 100/65. so i talked to my doctor and he said that was healthy and it was okay to lower my dose to 25mg. i still go get my pressure checked at the drug store and it's still low. i get dizzy when i stand up and i do have anxiety which this is not helping.
i haven't lost weight. i haven't changed anything. can your blood pressure just go from high to low like that?
oh yeah my pulse increased to 110 with the lower atenolol dose now
Last edited by PumpkinSeed; 07-13-2010 at 01:29 PM.
Re: can high blood pressure resolve itself with no lifestyle changes.
I don't know for sure, but when I take my medication all the time, a year later my BP gets real low so I stop. I can stay off for months and then I get these crazy spikes. As for the pulse, I get a high pulse with my meds as well.
What I am told, once you have high blood pressure, you always do.
Re: can high blood pressure resolve itself with no lifestyle changes.
Thats an interesting finding. Perhaps some aspect of your life has changed since you began on atenolol? IE stress? Any thought?
I found the reverse to be true for me. I developed hypertension and was overweight, and ate poorly...I lost 30+ lbs, run daily, eat a good diet (low salt, etc) and my bp did not improve at all (more than six years later).
Re: can high blood pressure resolve itself with no lifestyle changes.
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Originally Posted by atengnr
Thats an interesting finding. Perhaps some aspect of your life has changed since you began on atenolol? IE stress? Any thought?
I found the reverse to be true for me. I developed hypertension and was overweight, and ate poorly...I lost 30+ lbs, run daily, eat a good diet (low salt, etc) and my bp did not improve at all (more than six years later).
well. the only thing i can think of is that i was dx'ed with the high blood pressure in 2001 and in 2004 with graves disease. perhaps i lost the high blood pressure when my graves went into remission. but still took the atenolol 50mg and it didn't make me low enough to really pass out etc. i mean i have felt dizzy on standing for a few years now but never really attributed it to that. this is a theory of my son's endocrinologist, because I asked him.
my doctor now has me completely off the atenolol, is going to hook me up to a holter and send me to a cardiologist.
i'm kinda scared because without the atenolol my pulse is sooo fast. so the two together are apparently not good according to allt he sites on the net. reading about how dangerous it is has brought my blood pressure up for sure!
