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Re:Doctors Have Been Measuring Blood Pressure All Wrong, Stu... by llm_nerd on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:23PM (#37473906)
To add to the great reply by hwillis, I just went to my doctor with a concern about my blood pressure and he prescribed amlodipine with follow-up bloodwork to make sure there aren't other factors. When the amlodipine wasn't effective he upped the dose with another set of bloodwork, and then he added telmisartan and lipitor (coupling it in with the amlodipine for convenience) given cholesterol issues with my bloodwork.

There are a lot of different blood pressure medications (like a ridiculous array of options) and I let my doctor decide. There are side effects but I have suffered zero of them, and now that the blood pressure is under control my bloodwork across the board has been improving significantly.

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Re:Doctors Have Been Measuring Blood Pressure All Wrong, Stu... by url00 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:38PM (#37483894)
Thanks for the reply. Yeah it seems like hypertension is right up there with fatigue as one of those more general symptoms that can be really hard to nail down a fix for. I'm glad it all worked so well for you.
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Re:Doctors Have Been Measuring Blood Pressure All Wrong, Stu... by bradknowles on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @04:50AM (#37494018)
I don't like combining drugs, especially something like amlodipine with Olmesartan. Individually, each drug is cheap enough and commonly stocked that I can go into most any Walgreens anywhere and get my prescriptions fulfilled. Do them as a a combo, and suddenly it can only be custom ordered and I have to wait days for it to arrive. And it's also much, much more expensive when combined.

One extra pill to take at night does not make a huge change to my nightly routine of taking all my drugs. So taking one less pill wouldn't be a huge improvement, either.

But the lack of availability and much higher cost of the combined drug means that I don't ever want to do that again.

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