Hello everyone! I'm Dr. Yang, a general practitioner who focuses on blood pressure, glucose, lipid, and uric acid management. Let me answer this netizen's question.

First, I'll tell you about a patient I saw in the clinic.

This patient is also a hypertensive patient. A middle-aged woman with a history of hypertension for five or six years, she had been taking amlodipine benzenesulfonate to control her blood pressure. However, because of various reasons some time ago, she went back to her hometown and unexpectedly did not bring enough antihypertensive drugs. When I came back, I hadn't taken any antihypertensive medication for two days, and when I measured my blood pressure, it was already as high as 160/80 mmHg. So, first of all, I would like to remind you not to stop taking antihypertensive drugs without authorization. If you have anything to do, please prepare enough antihypertensive drugs in advance.

So, can you still take your blood pressure medication after you've been off it for two days?

Of course it is possible to take it! If you don't take the medication again, the continued rise in blood pressure will lead to damage to the blood vessels, and it is very likely that some of the complications associated with high blood pressure, such as coronary heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, will occur.

People may worry that long-term use of antihypertensive drugs may cause some side effects. In fact, any drug may have side effects, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine. However, the possibility of side effects of long-term use of antihypertensive drugs is very low, usually only in a small number of people, and now there are many types of antihypertensive drugs, to find the right antihypertensive drugs for themselves, in order to control the blood pressure at the same time minimize the emergence of side effects. Some antihypertensive drugs can not only lower blood pressure but also beneficial to our cardiovascular protection, such as sartan, prilosec, lorazepam and so on. Therefore, it is very important to correctly recognize antihypertensive drugs and rationally use antihypertensive drugs.

The present purpose of taking antihypertensive medication is not to cure high blood pressure, but to prevent it from rising, to prevent damage to blood vessels due to rising blood pressure, and to prevent complications.

So is it true that you can't stop taking antihypertensive medication?

This is true for most hypertensive patients, but it is not absolute. For example, some obese people in the first check out high blood pressure, after strict diet control, exercise, weight loss, and then quit smoking, alcoholism, irregular work and rest and other habits, it is possible to do without medication blood pressure can be controlled up to standard; there are also patients with high blood pressure, if taking antihypertensive drugs, due to a variety of reasons of low blood pressure or low blood pressure symptoms, can be discontinued under the direction of the doctor antihypertensive drugs. In short, the use of antihypertensive drugs need to be combined with their own situation to decide, under the guidance of the doctor to take reasonable.

Well, today will say so much, if you think it can be said on a point of praise it ~ have questions can be concerned about me to get more related health knowledge, thank you for reading!