No More Blood Pressure Medication

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Carl_Carlson
Carl_Carlson Posts: 85 Member
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Changed diet and exercise habits and have not needed my unpronounceable BP medicine. Hoping some vegetarianism will do the same for cholesterol.

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  • amos481
    amos481 Posts: 92 Member
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    Congrats!!! Keep up the good work
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,326 Member
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    This is great news! I look forward to getting of my meds as well. How long did it take for you to completely stop using the meds? Was there a point when your doctor reduced the dosage or did you all of sudden stop?
  • Carl_Carlson
    Carl_Carlson Posts: 85 Member
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    meshashesha2012 wrote: »
    This is great news! I look forward to getting of my meds as well. How long did it take for you to completely stop using the meds? Was there a point when your doctor reduced the dosage or did you all of sudden stop?

    At 66 I stopped power lifting with its big eating & big lifting because I wanted to stop the sore joints after every workout, Soon I started to cycle & eat vegetarian but kept taking the meds like some kind of a machine without thinking. When I lost enough muscle and fat to weigh 220, I would get dizzy every time I took that crap; the reason why was my BP went too low on the Amlodapine. I was normal again after some 15 years.

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  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
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    Speaking as someone in the pharmaceutical industry - Bravo Zulu!

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