I am a 37 year old female that went to the ER 3 days ago for che...

I was a 24 year old female of athlete condition with extremely high blood pressure that would go from 100/60 and spike to 240/140. I take similiar medications to what you are taking, plus more.

For the first month I had a home nurse visit me, taking my blood pressure and making sure i took the medication properly. I used to take my dog for long walks, and when I was first on the medicine, I couldn't even walk him two blocks to a relative's house to call for a ride home. For six months my blood pressure was still not right, I had my medicined lowered and increased.

It took a month to three months to regain energy after beginning the drug regimin. But now, I am quite active, healthy libido, and still taking more medicine than you. It is really frustrating to be young and on more medicine than my great aunt. 37 is also quite young.

However there is a connection of some kind with blood pressure and organ damage, high bp and diabetes, high bp and stroke, high bp and heart attack, etc. If you have normal blood pressure and high blood pressure spikes. The spikes could have caused your body damage, leading to the develop of diabetes, or a stroke, or organ damage, or mild to severe heart attack. If I were you, I would be more upset that my high blood pressure was not taken more seriously sooner.

I have been trying to find research that would suggest taking me off the medication. But, taking yourself off the medication would be a really bad idea. Talk to your doctor about your concerns. If your bp goes from normal to spiking high, it probably isn't just diet, weight gain, etc and you should protect your body from the occasional spikes.

You can buy at home blood pressure machines for less than 100 bucks. You can keep a log of you bp for your doctor. take the pressures three times in a row, and use the last two measurements to make an average. record this reading. Ask for a cardiologist or high blood pressure specialist for a second opinion.

In my opinion you are receiving proper care, like you I was very skeptical of the drugs. It has been four years now. It is very dangerous to stop the medicine suddenly. Your doctor may ween you off the medicine.

Trust your body, not the doctors. They will dismiss any problems you have with the drugs. For some reason it does not sink in and they will think it is all in your head. If a drug gives you a bad reaction it is up to you to be persistant and tell the doc until your blue in the face that you demand something else. Good Luck!

Oh hun I am only 35 and I have in the last 3 months been through hell on this drug, I have had every symptom your experiencing and then some I don't have high blood pressure either, but I am having it go up and down and I am fuzzy, and sick constantly starting tomorrow I am cutting my down and I am never going to look back. So just know your not alone and I am on it for a high heart rate, and I know it can cause this because it's been doing it to me.