Blood Pressure Treatment
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Learn about pros and cons of the various medicines used to lower blood pressure, as well as multiple non-drug approaches to blood pressure control such as diet, supplements and special foods.
Product Description
One in three American adults has high blood pressure, and getting it under control is crucial for preventing strokes, kidney disease and heart attacks. Because hypertension (high blood pressure) has no symptoms, it is often called the “silent killer.” Hypertension is usually treated with medications, but finding the right drug or combination of drugs can involve trial and error.
Every medication has side effects, but they don’t affect everyone equally. The 8-page guide offers information on the pros and cons of each type of medicine along with details on non-drug approaches to lowering blood pressure with diet, supplements and special foods such as chocolate, pomegranates and beets. The guide is an online resource.
Might be the best $5 you will ever spend!
Michael C.
Florida
Great information. It is a nice comparison of medical and natural ways to reduce high blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure or just want to maintain your healthy pressure, I recommend this eBook.
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Virginia S.
AZ
Love the information in this booklet. Would really prefer your sending me a printed version rather than my having to print it myself.
Very Informative & Easy to Understand
Elizabeth A. R.
Washington
I’m new to the world of high blood pressure–had the opposite most of my life. I’m thin and tried smoking very briefly in my early 20s–never could inhale without coughing! I don’t drink alcohol and eat relatively healthfully. But at age 85, here I am with HBP–at least sometimes. I get high readings, then close-to-normal, which is confusing. (I had my home BP monitor calibrated, and it checked out O.K.)
I ended up in Urgent Care for 5 hours last week because I got a scary-high reading. That got my attention so I’m trying to become better educated, and “BP Solutions” was very informative. The doc put me on two BP meds, but I hope that’s temporary since they do have unpleasant side effects.
Info that can be trusted
Bill B.
Washington state
From research, I have an aversion to statins and the secondary harm they can do. This led me to investigate other methodologies for treating high blood pressure. Your guide gave the history of blood pressure measurement and what has been learned since. Some measurement procedures are not followed by traditional medical establishments, leading to false high readings. I especially was glad to get natural remedies and food supplements to keep my blood pressure under control. Thank you for providing accurate information in these times of internet confusion and traditional medical “one size fits all” treatment methodologies.
Covers all the bases
Toni Fojtasek
Texas
I love that we can look at other options besides medicine. This guide was very helpful and honest.
Informative and Helpful
Maggie A. S.
Virginia
Very informative and helpful with information on other ways than medicines to help treat your high blood pressure as well as information on the different BP medicines prescribed to you.
Excellent and Thorough Coverage of the Subject but with a Few Shortcomings
Daniel C.
Davis, California
In general,this pamphlet is excellent, as is usually the case with PP publications. It is very thorough in most respects. I would have liked a little more about balancing BP medications especially in people over 65.
Two things need to be stressed: 1) A BP med. can work well for years, even decades, and then cease to be effective–that is what happened to me with Lisinopril; 2) When on a BP med, and especially when changing to a new one or a combination, get a regular blood test to make sure your electrolytes are in balance.
Finally I would have liked more on the best combinations of BP drugs (Yes, I know this is indidvidual to a large extent). And relatedly, some, or more, citations or bibliography on this issue would have been useful.
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Robert B.
Connecticut
Useful, informative, persuasive, excellent links. Particularly helpful for me at age 74 because my doctor insists on a blood pressure level appropriate for 40-year-olds. “I want him on something,” she told my APRN. Can’t be 74 without medication! I’ve managed this far — thank you helping me to continue.
Maybe all you need to do is lay off the black licorice!
Leslie H.
Kingston, WA
All the info I needed in an easy to read, understandable format.
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charles k.
Not bad but would like more detail with olive oil and beet power and that sort of thing
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Kathleen McC
Cypress, TX
Extremely helpful. I appreciate all the tips on how diet may help control this condition. I feel doctors are too quick to prescribe medication when more natural ways might be just as effective. Thank you for this valuable resource.
Feeling more educated about natural treatment options
Keith A.
Rocky Mount, NC
I’ve been taking medication for high blood pressure for about 20 years – Metoprolol, Lisinopril/Benazepril or Clonidine being the primary drugs. I found this bulletin to be very informative. It feels like doctors have kept me on a hamster wheel of meds to treat some condition or other, and additional meds to treat the side effects of those meds! As a result of reading this, I am already shopping for beet juice and pomegranate juice. Natural, SAFER alternatives sound so much better.
Very Informative
Bob F.
Durham, NC
Very informative and thorough discussion of high blood pressure including contributing factors and treatments.
Great Reference
mary k.
Lots of very useful information gathered in one concise document. Topics are titled so that it is easy to read what applies to you and skip the rest unless you’re curious. Covers topics one might not think to ask about, but should know.
Full of great info
Christine P.
Lots of great information! Thanks!
valuable info
Joseph W.
Wisconsin
It was just the information I needed to convince my physician that drugs are not the only (or even the best) way to combat hypertension
Loved it
Gregory Cole
South Carolin
Well-written and informative.
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Bob Schoenman
Washington
Excellent summary of the current information on high blood pressure
Good information, slightly old, won't print nicely.
Linda Angela Day
TX
A good review but not as current as it might be, if there are new meds in the last few years. However, it does NOT printed correctly; no formatting is preserved, the sidebars are just mashed into the body text, making it somewhat confusing to read. I try not to read long documents on the computer — I’d rather have paper that I can save and read comfortably in a recliner with my dog in my lap! This document should be a pdf! Why isn’t it?
UM
Uma Murthy
Seattle, WA
The blood pressure guide is a wealth of information for someone who is just beginning to understand the condition. I felt that parts of it are too technical for a lay person, nevertheless useful.
Good Summary of Current Medical Treatments
Linda Walker
Bellingham, WA
This is a good overall summary of what hypertension is and how it is treated with pharmaceuticals. But I thought it was a guide on alternative options to reduce high bold pressure so am disappointed.
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Carolyn J.
Missouri
This was one of three papers I ordered. None of them had their pages numbered; however, I am not very good on the computer. This information was also well-delivered, and I hope it will help the young man for whom I ordered. I did read all 3 reports so I could discuss the reasons for many items. Keep up the good work.
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Ruth B
Ohio
Excellent information. Your definition of blood pressure and how it works was spot on.
very helpful
katrina
I was on lisinopril and I had terrible large hives right after I started taking it, I had no Idea this medication would create this issue, I didn’t think a dr would give me a medication that would have this side effect, I thought the welted hives was an allergic reaction to a food I ate, never had hives before this, then I was in the Wisconsin back woods and my throat swelled closed and I couldn’t breath or talk but luckily a small opening opened in my throat and I could get a little air in but couldn’t talk for awhile till the swelling went down. I thought my throat swelling was due to tonsil issues,, nope it was the lisinopril then the dr put me on amlodipine and the same swelling happened, it was awful. Now the dr wants me to take hydralazine and I’m afraid to take it but when my blood pressure goes to 160/80 I take one but it make my pulse race and I feel like my heart is racing more. I’m not what the dr will do when I see him next time but I am afraid not to take the medication and afraid to take it. This review gave me a lot of answers to my questions, very helpful
Very Informative and helpful
Marilyn
Duluth, MN
Thank you for your report on Blood Pressure Treatments. It was very informative, very helpful. My husband is on metoprolol, amlodipine, and lisinopril with HCTZ and his blood pressure is super high to super low several times a day. He lost a kidney to calcified renal artery and is so afraid the same thing will happen to his remaining kidney. We don’t know which way to turn. With your helpful report we can at least understand what each of these medications actually do so we can discuss this stuff with his doctor with a better understanding now. Also the side effects info. We read this and said “who knew” because he has been having some of these very symptoms (side effects?) Thanks again
Provides options
James M.
OH
May provide safer options than some prescription drugs.
Good
Leilani joy f tuparan
Philippines
Good
Excellent Information
Lisa S
Very informative, and I now realize that my doctors are killing me. I fell the other day, and now I can’t stop bleeding. I am diabetic. I now have a huge black eye (face, really), and I cut my leg and can’t stop bleeding.
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Marjorie Cline
VA
I just ordered/downloaded your guidelines to Blood Pressure Treatment and I’m rather disappointed. The document does, indeed offer guidelines but I expected something that included more current research. Instead, I believe the most recent update or edit was in October 2008. That is more than 7 years ago and in the intervening time there has been a lot of research into best practices for BP control. I don’t believe this is up to your usual standard.
Actually, the date given for updates/editing was only on the initial download for printing. There is no date on the article itself as I have downloaded it. Dr.’s Graedon, you pride yourselves, and rightly so, on careful research and reporting, albeit for the use of “laypersons.” But educated non-medical people still know that it is imperative to include information about the date of any research published.
A second observation is less important perhaps but still germane: The PDF file is formatted for PDF Vista. “VISTA????” Do you not know that MS no longer supports Vista. I had a dreadful time trying to get the document to print properly on my Windows 7 equipment, even using a new printer.
I’m sorry to complain, but I believe these comments are both realistic and within the bounds of reasonable expectations.