High Blood Pressure Not Responding To Meds

My husband has just had a very similar event to the one you had. Like you, started eating licorice bullets (more like overdose of licorice bullets).  He has a very good diet, used to be a serious runner but eventually had coronary artery grafts x 5, six years ago. Even preoperatively, no probs with BP. None post op either but has taken Rapirimil very low dose just to keep pressure off the arteries.

Good follow up review report on 21 January 2016, by Cardiologist and then commenced his indulgence in licorice bullets. On 6 February we took ourselves to A & E at local hospital where he presented with BP of 211/?   Have not been able to get BP down.   Stopped eating bullets on 2 March after we decided to try to nut out just what he was doing, taking, eating over the period of time before visit to A & E.   Needless to say, he will never eat licorice again but...........having great difficulty in getting ANYONE to take much interest in our own diagnosis for the cause of his increase in BP.

Still trying to work on getting BP down but am hoping the next week will do it.

My query is, has your BP stayed down and stable since ceasing the licorice.

Thanks in anticipation of your reply

Hi Richard,

How much do you weigh, and if you could let me know in pounds, or at least kilograms, I would appreciate it.  If you use stone, well then, we have nothing to left to say to each other.  Also, height and age would be helpful, as well as vitamins, herbs, or anything else you might be taking.  I haven't read all the replies here, and I know that most of them are old, so if you are doing better, can you let us know what you did?

HiThere

the doctors dont want to tell you, but high blood pressure comes from certain foods....dairy, coffee, salt, sugar, beef, etc.

look it up on the computer under " food allergies cause high blood pressure".

Soon as i got rid of the foods, the bp drop 20 pts right away.

Hi, I've had extreme BP for 16 yrs, I'm only 40 years old. I think I may be coming to an answer as to why I have this. I think you all need to look into Mast cell activation and Pots or Hyperpots. Talk to you drs about this, here in America these are rare conditions. Maybe in the UK it is not. It isn't rare in Canada. I'll let you know if I get a diagnoses. My BP is 220/120 and it surges, then sometimes it falls. The falling part is new. I've noticed that food may have something to with it, like I'm having an allergic reaction. Keep food diary's, it may give you a clue when you get surging pressure. I take benadryl while it's happening with clonidine, xanax, and I drink lots of water. If taking benadryl while having these spikes works that should tell you something.

Good luck and I hope this helps

hi, interesting post!!

i am diagnose with young hypertension since 18, college time.

i have done few test to find out what is my problem. end up the doc said this is happen from family history.

i am not taken any medicine due to i feel weak, sleepy or dizzy every time take the medicine. my reading very high most the time 180/120, 220/1110. but i dont feel dizzy or weak. im even active with hiking & travelling and also i am certified scuba diver.

now i am 32, and pregnant.my  1st pregnancy. as at now im 12 weeks.

i am very happy being mom to be. but to tell the truth i am scared of lossing this baby before giving birth. as advice by doc, now i am on adalat 20mg & methyldopa 1g, staggerd every 4 hours.

methyldopa 1g - 8am,4pm,12am

adalat 20mg - 12pm,8pm,4am

from the doc, that is the maximum dose for me as im pregnant.

not even 1 doc given me hope that my pregnancy will survive till the end.

they said, i wil not reach to 5month.

i am worried because, even with maximum dosage of medice, my bp reading still yo-yo & hard to reach the normal range. today 183/113.

please advice me.

 

Rich I may be to late get ro rhe hospital asap ask for an MRI of your back

Rich I may be to late get ro rhe hospital asap ask for an MRI of your back

If you are one of the people like me whose BP problems are caused by salt and water retension you do not receive the correct medication due to an error in the NICE hypertension pathway that doctors use. I would aks your gp if you can try changing your BP medication to Valsartan (ARB) at 80mg with Chlortalidone (Diuretic=water tablet) at 25mg (you have to cut a 50 mg tablet in half) plus Indapamide 1.5mg (slow release) which acts as a vasodilator. I cut the corner off the 25mg half a tablet of chlortalidone and take about 20mg. My BP hit 229/129 and I was repeatedly wrongly diagnosed and wrongly medicated.

My BP medicine was changed to LOSARTAN; the numbers vary often.  Dr. suggested to take in the morning versus night to see if the numbers decrease.  Doctor states different times of the day work for many patients.

Richard/Derek,

Read your comments on your experiences with hypertension from some time back.

So first question; did you guys find a solution, a new medication that gas lowered you BP? I am 63 just retired and have controled with meds for over 10 years and like yours it all over the place? High in the morning 168/100 after a whole night's rest then drops during the to 138/78 during the day, very perplexing! And second question; then my doc increases my Lisinipril to 40 from 20mg a day with HCTZ 12.5 but now seeing even more spuratic readings, all over the charts?? And feed back??