12May/112
When is the best time for me to take high blood pressure medicine?
I am a 20 year old female and just got prescribed 10mg lisinopril to take once a day. I havent started them yet because I don't know whether or not to take them in the morning or night. My friend told me that the best time to take it will be when I wake up because during the day is when your blood pressure could get high from stress or whatever else.
So what do yall think?
Thanks in advance.
May 12th, 2011 - 08:45
The difference between medications and supplements is, medications are intended to treat the symptoms while supplements are meant to treat the cause.
High blood pressure medication only treats the symptoms – eventually, the dosages will be increased or you’ll be switched to something stronger, because this medication is not addressing the cause.
Your doctor probably won’t tell you this unless you ask him straight-out, but high blood pressure is caused by dehydration – you’re not drinking enough water. The body is taking water from the blood and injecting it into the cells, which are experiencing a drought condition. This causes the arteries and vessels to shrink (due to the loss of volume) and it also causes the blood to thicken. This requires more pressure on the heart to pump the thickened blood through the arteries, vessels, etc. This increased pressure is what is referred to as hypertension – or high blood pressure.
Your doctor may have told you to cut back on salt. To be honest, there is excess salt in the arteries, but excess salt isn’t the bad guy here. The extra salt is only because there is less water to maintain the proper balance. Instead of cutting back on salt, you should be drinking more water.
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NOTE: Go ahead with the medication and continue until the doctor pulls you off of it. Don’t quit on your own. He’ll be monitoring it, and will cut the dosage or stop it altogether when you’ve got the blood pressure back to normal levels.
May 12th, 2011 - 08:45
this is a very serious question that should be answered by the prescribing dr.
or the pharmacist that filled it…