I don't believe I wrote this ...
Few people manage to get by with one medicine to lower blood pressure. But there are such people. And when they brought down their pressure below the recommended level (and the levels are different), then after a year these people have a reasonable question about the gradual cancellation of the annoying medication.
Of course, there are also cases when the head became ill from the drugs that reduce the pressure. Then there is no choice.
So, if there was a hypertensive person who had learned to control his blood pressure with with the help of one medication and all sorts of non-drug methods, that is, there is a chance that the latter will be canceled medicine.
Only the smartest and most beautiful young patients are suitable for this case. Those whose blood pressure did not really scale even before the treatment. Who managed to lose weight and sharply limited their salt.
If you cannot lose weight, limit salt, and if you are no longer very young, then you may not even dream of a complete rejection of pills.
Do you know what's the funniest thing?
The fact that one tablet a day of a well-tolerated familiar pressure medicine is usually less ruinous for people than strict monitoring after all the tablets have been completely canceled. Is it really worth it?
Here I still see one interesting moment. In my experience, if a patient has an obsession with completely abandoning the drug, and every time at the reception he demands, yells, vomits on himself a shirt and swears by all relatives, then usually such an emotional subject will simply scale down the pressure from his emotions. It's not even about the pills.
Forgot about the elderly
I really don’t remember exactly where we discussed the elderly, who, against the background of a normally selected treatment and expensive pills for pressure begin to freak out, their head weakens, and this business has to be canceled. Because the brains no longer work on pills. Somewhere, probably in the subject about the regulation of cerebral circulation.
This trick does not work for everyone. Sometimes the drugs were canceled, but my head did not get much better. Because already it's time for dementia and all that.
Plus, drugs for pressure in the elderly not only affect the head, but also protect the heart. You can't really change this - they will die from arrhythmia or heart attack.
As it will be
Now the worst thing. I am listing the brutal rules for reducing the dose of antihypertensive drugs. Well, that is, you can't just take it and leave it. So you can die.
Brothers, I have already repeated to you many times that pressure medications often show their maximum effect after three weeks from the beginning of the intake. This is also due to the fact that they can be excreted from the body for days. So, long-acting drugs like amlodipine to reduce the dose begin to take not every day, but every other day. If it is poorly remembered, then every even or odd day of the month. If a person thinks even worse, then they simply prescribe the same pills, but with a smaller dose.
Some short-acting medicines (like lisinopril) will have to be halved and taken every day.
Well, all this time you will have to run to the doctors in order to correctly measure your blood pressure. Now is a bad time for that.
If for a couple of months the doctor closely followed such a daredevil, and each time the pressure was higher than normal, then they return to the previous dose of the medicine and again follow from one to three months. Why the hell was it necessary to make life so difficult for everyone?
Why does this trick work at all?
Did it ever occur to you that you can't just cancel the medicine? This something had to happen or break in your body in order to be able to refuse treatment.
There is a chance that those changes in the arteries which we have already talked about, they can reverse development, and the blood vessels will be almost as good as new. Well, or the sensitivity of the heart and arteries to some hormones can also change over time.
There is another explanation. Maybe your unfortunate one pill a day had no effect on your blood pressure at all. Neither did it then, nor does it now. Therefore, we managed to refuse it. Maybe your lifestyle has changed. They began to walk in the forest with sticks, or they changed jobs. This is what really influenced the pressure.
Well, or you didn't have high blood pressure. Well, I constantly insist that I have to sit for exactly 5 minutes with the tonometer cuff on my shoulder. After that, for many, the pressure is already normalizing.
Or maybe the pressure was not very high, and the person was given a frenzied dose of a brutal antihypertensive drug. Then this dose can be reduced for a year, and the pressure will remain normal (there was just an overdose of the medication).
Something carried me today. Let's round off.
In short, you better not dream that you will be able to throw your pills. Rather, you won't succeed.
