High Blood Pressure - reducing using diet and exercise

Get on a statin straight away it’s the best way to reduce you’re blood pressure nothing else will work. Change it if the first one doesn’t suit you you’ll not regret it .

Bonnybanko

Get on a statin straight away it’s the best way to reduce you’re blood pressure nothing else will work. Change it if the first one doesn’t suit you you’ll not regret it .

Statins lower cholesterol. They do not lower blood pressure.

Bonnybanko

Get on a statin straight away it’s the best way to reduce you’re blood pressure nothing else will work. Change it if the first one doesn’t suit you you’ll not regret it .

This is incorrect. Statins are for high cholesterol not blood pressure.

mumofmadboys

There is a genetic component to hypertension you can do nothing about.
Measures such as weight loss, exercise, cutting out salt will help lower your BP but the vast majority need medication as well. The average life expectancy has increased over the years because we are fortunate enough to have the medications available.
White Coat hypertension shouldn't be ignored totally- your BP is probably going up in response to other stressor encountered in daily living.

I have never queried that, but I still object to being called a liar by somebody on GN who doesn't have access to my health records. When I was prescribed BP medication, I expected to be on it for life. I was given the standard advice about lowering BP, but as I wasn't overweight, didn't smoke, was teetotal and didn't add any salt to food, I was a bit limited as to what I could do. Exercise and stress were the only two risk factors I couldn't cross off. I increased my exercise (although I probably still don't do enough) and decided to tackle my chronic stress. I was amazed how much a few little tweaks helped. I was even more amazed that my erratic blood sugar (which has been like that for over 30 years) even started to be more controlled. I take my own BP at home every week or so, so I knew it had come down (over 7 years), but I was still pleased when the pharmacist queried whether I should still be taking medication and referred me to the GP, who stopped my prescription. I didn't request it.

I'm well aware that some people have a genetic component and some others already have damage which can't be reversed. I'm not a cardiologist, so I have no idea what causes high BP in individual cases. What I do know is that lifestyle changes worked for me, which is why I wrote that "all people are different".

I recommend getting your own BP monitor, we have had one for years, we check ours at random times. Our neighbour suffered from high BP, he was off work a lot but has now retired; he is on medication but goes for a brisk walk for about 30 minutes every day, has lost a lot of weight and looks and feels much better.

I've also had minor procedures cancelled due to excessively high BP. Nothing could be done to control it, so in the end they all went ahead regardless.
There's pretty much nothing that you can do about it if that's the way you're made. Have you always been prone to high blood pressure? I've suffered from it for nearly 50 years and have just accepted I'm a hypertensive and I pop the daily pills. I have had periods in my life when I've been stressed, when I've been totally free and relaxed, when I've eaten a different diet living abroad, when I've walked 3 miles a day or swum 20 lengths twice a day in my pool, but nothing makes a difference.
In addition we had private medical insurance and I had every possible blood test, scan, monitoring done - all to find no answers. My bp is so labile, the home BP machine can go up or down 40 - 50 on the systolic top reading within hours, so I don't use it any more.
Try not to worry you much, your doctor will advise and if it needs treating with medication, just do it. That's what it's there for.

My Mother has extremely high blood pressure for 2 month. She is not overweight, she is very fit and active, we eat a healthy diet, we don’t use salt and she is not a stressy person. Consultants say she can do nothing to help herself as the above are the main causes!

What should i do now? Give me some proper suggessions ...

What do you call extremely high?

Spondon

My Mother has extremely high blood pressure for 2 month. She is not overweight, she is very fit and active, we eat a healthy diet, we don’t use salt and she is not a stressy person. Consultants say she can do nothing to help herself as the above are the main causes!

What should i do now? Give me some proper suggessions ...

Is your Mum a smoker? How much alcohol does she drink?