Q: I am taking Atacand Plus which seems have an adverse effects on kidney. Please let me know whether Cozzar is a better medicine than Atacand Plus.
A: The best drug to use for a person with high blood pressure depends on many factors. Without knowing your complete medical history and examination findings, I am unable to say one drug would be better or worse. You should discuss your concerns with your doctor and ask why Atacand Plus was recommended over a different drug within the same classification (angiotensin II receptor blocker).
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It is interesting that all the questions on high blood pressure seem to jump automatically to what drug is best. Frankly, no drug is best if hypertension can be treated through natural means as they all have negative side effects, and some can be very serious negative side effects. Resperate is one aid. There are many other natural treatments that can bring high blood pressure into normal ranges.
What are other NATURAL treatments?
Thanks Me Caresita for fighting the good fight for natural control of BP. I was on meds for a month and hated the way I felt. I was able to make a dietary change that brought my BP WAY down to where its below 120/80 almost all of the time. I still have occasional spikes and have figured out that I can’t get away with coffee at all. I also have to remember to breathe when working at the computer-ie reduce stress. But other than that, I am doing much better and expect that soon there will be no more spikes at all. By the way, I am also hiking straight up a steep “mountain” just about every other day, ie 35 minutes straight up to the top. A 5 mile hike with a view of the surrounding hils and ocean to reward me for my sweat!. I am beginning to feel as good as I did in my 30s! Sleep is also an important factor. Our bodies are our personal chemistry labs. By monitoring our BP at regular intervals and seeing what makes it go down or up one can gain control and throw away the meds! And Resperate is a valuable tool.
Probably people means which medicine is best in regards to the side effects profile, in that context the best medicine is the one that lowers blood pressure without side effects or at least with the least amount.
I have tried both and after a while the side effects were a serious burden for me, side effects are not felt equally by all the patients, but there is one I think just about everyone sooner or later will feel but is hardly noticeable initially because of the inconspicuous way in which it develops, what I am talking about is the ability ARB’s and ACE inhibitors have to rob motivation and desire coupled with an emotional and physical tiredness or weariness.
At first I did not connect the two but after years it became obvious to me, blood pressure medicine will drag me down because it robs my initiative, motivation and pleasure in doing things, one tends to think those traits are personal deficiencies and not medicine related, that is why many seek antidepressants and end up feeling worst because now they have extra side effects to deal with.
Losing weight, exercise, healthy eating and life style will do as much as drugs will do with the bonus of making you feel good, when you can play a long game of tennis and play physically every afternoon like a teenager without a belly hanging over your belt you have licked hypertension. (provided there is no medical reason for it)
Agreed on all pints. Docs are too quick to put everyone on a med with high BP when many could muster the will power to change their lives by being proactive and getting healthy instead of rolling over and looking to a pill for the quick answer. WE are talking about a major lifestyle change-that is what is truly necessary to make it happen And it may not work for everyone. But I would bet that 50% of those on BP meds could take control of their health with dietar, exercise, sleepy and other lifestyle changes. It is MUCH more rewarding than popping a pill that makes you feel bad. I am starting to feel great again and so can you!
I am 79 years old; I have been taking bp medication for nearly 20 years after my heart surgery. for the past 2 months readings of bp has gone up from the usual 146/85to 170/90. I am taking tenormin 50mg in the morning and in the evening I am taking atacand 18mg.
Kuala Lumpur
Presently, I am under the care of a pain manage Doctor for my fibromyalgia pain. She sticks needles in several areas of my back and shoulders thus far and she is also including physical therapy in managing my pain. What do you call this particular thearpy? There is no med injected at the sites of injection. Some of the sites are very painful and some of the others are more like an insect bite. Helen
T Meece, you might start with Dr. Sherry Rogers’ book, “The High Blood Pressure Hoax”. There are a tremendous number of helpful, natural therapies listed in that book, as well as googling the subject! For example, celery and dandelion leaf are natural diuretics. Pomegranate is a natural “ace inhibitor”. There are many, many others! All the best!!
I’t so great to see so many people tuning into their body and not just taking drugs that a doctor prescribes.
An ARB or an ARB with a diuretic is a good choice. Approved and used by many airline pilots with minimal side effects. I am on Benicar HCT
I was given several drugs for blood pressure, one actually caused my hair to fall out, I have given them all up, and now I’m trying with losing weight,taking supplements, and using a special hand exerciser, that claims to help bring the pressure down, along with swimming and walking, I hope to make that happen.
I had high blood pressure for last twenty years. I had to live on medicine. Bad and severe headache was a regular feature. I had no diabetes. But I developed severe pain in my both heeis. Doctor diagnised that my sugar level has reached at 15 body weight 75 kg.I was on medicine for heel pain but no permanent solution shown. I decided to loss my body weight and that helped me a lot. Now I have no BP, sugar level come down, pain in heels almost gone.
Med Ali
I am 60 years old and have been on drugs since 1997.
Garlic is a good natural way to combat BP. for the last 4 years, I’ve been taking a small piece of garlic every morning with a glass of water 15 minutes before having breakfast. I feel better now and I do more than 2 hours of walking every day.
have had terrible adverse effects with Lipitor, ace inhibitors, angiotension blockers, haematuria, muscle
deterioration now take Omega 3, Vit E, 81 mgm ASA qd took a year of Yoga exercises, to be able towalk with out knee collapsing and hip aching
Marg
Sounds great to not take medicines but when you have to it makes you (me)lazy & non interested in much. I used to be fun, I can still remember it. I am 67 almost 68.
I have been on blood pressure meds since I was 32, I am 49 now & after having stoke in 2009, I have made many dietary changes & have gotten off one of the meds which was a diuretic (HCTZ) I seldom eat any sugar, wheat, potato, rice (except red rice) or take any caffeinated drinks. I have reduce my weight by 10 lbs since I made these changes. My BP now is around 120/73. Sometime a less sometime a little more if I am rushing around trying to do get things done. I still am on Amlodopine Besylate & Cozzar. I am using resperate & hope to be lowering or getting off these drugs.
My (new) doctor says everybody over sixty and BP 140/90 should be on BP medication! He is taking Atacand himself and because HE is happy with it he prescribed it for me too, including five (!) repeats!!! He put Atacand on the same script for an antibiotic I needed and when I told the young pharmacist that I did not want Atacand I was given a lecture about the benefits of BP medications. I am realistic enough to understand that when high blood pressure does not come down after everything else has been tried some people have to take medications. But it also made me wonder whether it is the universities that churn out ‘drug peddlers’.
I wore a 24-hour monitor and during driving in heavy traffic my BP spiked to 150/90, at one stage to 160/90 and then came down again to 139/85. I believe this is normal, but my doctor took the highest reading on that day to diagnose high blood pressure. I am not medically trained but in my opinion this is not the right way to make a proper diagnosis for high blood pressure. Most of my friends who take some kind of medication are very happy pill poppers and they don’t have any compassion at all when I express my concerns.
D. Caresta,
I had followed you when you were writing on various method of natural blood pressure control. except that the methods are many and appears difficult to follow.
I have noise in my ear for more than a year now and told was a s result of blood pressure medication.
I am worried about my blood pressure because at one time it will low and at other time high. it could be 140/85 in the morning and could jump to 150/95 in the afternoon. it could even be lower in the morning then up again before evening even when i take drugs. the biggest proplem now is that most pressure drugs react in my body such as tingling sensation in my feet or difficulty sleeping. Doctors have not been able to help me because the drugs they give me react negatively and when i complain they give me another set without reasons for these reactions. What natural available and reacheable blood pressure alternative can help.