Hello and thank you for using HCM.I carefully read your question and I understand your concern. I will try to explain you something and give you my opinion. You should know that we talk about hypertension if we have mean value that exceeds 140 / 90 mmHg.A person might have high value during emotional and physical strees so its mandatory to judge on mean values. Usaly hypertension does not give any specific simptoms . Sometimes it might give headache, blurred vision, dizziness, nausea ect. If left untreated it slowly modifies heart muscle so it is essential to act it time. To give a good advise how to menage your values its important to have some more information. If I was your treating doctor I would recommend some examination like a cardiac echo to evaluate heart function and walls, a full blood analyze to check up renal parameters and a holter pressure monitoring to have a full view of your mean value during day and night. After all this we can better judge and know how to treat your blood pressure. Meanwhile avoid salt intake, coffe becouse they rise your blood pressure. Hope I was helpfull. Best regards, Dr.Ervina.