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What Causes Steady Blood Pressure Despite Taking Vegetables And Fruits?

Hello, I m a lady age 47, weight 60 , height 155cm, I used to take bp medicine as telmisartan combo. My usual BP is 144/99.i stopped the medication and starts living healthy lifestyle, avoided salt , taking green veg and fruits. Now the bp is still at 144/99. I stopped medication 6
months back.
Mon, 27 Apr 2015
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Hello and welcome to HCM!

It's a very good thing making a healthy lifestyle, having vegetables and fruits in you diet, do physical activity, and reduce salt. This helps a lot in controlling high BP but sometimes is not enough. In this cases medicines are considered. If you are taking already a drug for your BP and it still remains high, this means that your doctor (better a cardiologist) should change it with another drug or make a combined scheme ( two or more anti hypertensive drugs). He will tell you the doses how you will take them and you should have frequent contacts until your BP is normalized and remains stable.

I hope you will be fine soon.
Best regards!
Dr Eriol.
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What Causes Steady Blood Pressure Despite Taking Vegetables And Fruits?

Hello and welcome to HCM! It s a very good thing making a healthy lifestyle, having vegetables and fruits in you diet, do physical activity, and reduce salt. This helps a lot in controlling high BP but sometimes is not enough. In this cases medicines are considered. If you are taking already a drug for your BP and it still remains high, this means that your doctor (better a cardiologist) should change it with another drug or make a combined scheme ( two or more anti hypertensive drugs). He will tell you the doses how you will take them and you should have frequent contacts until your BP is normalized and remains stable. I hope you will be fine soon. Best regards! Dr Eriol.