Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Side-effects Of Blood Pressure Medicine

By Abby McDonnis


When you have been identified as having hypertension and prescribed blood pressure medication then you probably have endured certain negative effects. As you probably know, one blood pressure treatment doesn't suit all. You may have been through some time where your personal doctor modified the dosage or perhaps added in a second or third medicine to your daily dosage.

If you're on a diuretic you might simply have the aggravating side-effect of having to urinate often. Yet, that diuretic is flushing out more than just salt. Potassium, calcium and manganese are lost on this process. Deficiencies in these minerals can lead to gout, irregular heart beat and hypoglycemia.

And if you don't do something about the way you live life, you will probably graduate to one of the stronger blood pressure meds and those factors can come with some serious side effects.

Beta blockers reduce the heart beat in an attempt to lower pressure. If however, the heart is reduced to the point that it can not fully pump all of the blood in the chamber, you risk congestive heart failure, heart attack or stroke.

Alpha blockers, Calcium Channel Blockers and ACE Inhibitors all run similar risks with calcium channel blockers being cited by a Wake University study as leading to 40,000 unwanted heart attacks yearly.

And you're on this thing for life. Is that what you had planned? I have not mentioned the most typical side-effects which include fatigue, dizziness and a loss of libido. This is certainly a quality of life question isn't it? You can't disregard high blood pressure simply because it's a killer but the treatment is no cake walk either.

Did you know that here's a way to avoid all of this? Did you know that the American Heart Association says that "drugs can be useful when diet and exercise have failed"? You heard right. Your BP problem can go away if you dig in and commit to modifications in what you eat, exercise habits and stress control.

You can single handedly eliminate these side effects if you really want.

A large number of Americans have turned to the "cure" that a natural approach provides. Eating healthy fresh food, abstaining from fatty junk food and convenience foods, getting a half hour of walking in each day, and working on their stress has allowed thousands to say goodbye to the silent killer.




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