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What Causes Low Blood Pressure While On Hydrochlorothiazide?
Hello. I suffer from hypertension with b.p. readings up to 160/100. I am on Tiazac 360 mg. and Hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg. and yesterday my doctor added Candesartan Cilexetil 16 mg. At different b.p. readings today, my average is 117/75. One time it was 111/70. Is this getting a bit too low? I am thinking I should omit Hydro 25 mg. and see what happens? This almost scares me as much as 160/100. Thank you for your advices. Regards, Beverley
Tue, 18 Nov 2014
Hello...hydrochlorthiazide is a very milf diuretic but a essential drug in management of hypertension...what you should do is to reduce the dose to half i.e 12.5 mg and then record your bp daily for few days
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