secondyearofthis asked:
Is there anything over the counter that you can take to lower your blood pressure? I cant get in to see a doctor for two weeks and cant afford to go to the hospital. I have a blood pressure testing monitor at home and it is extremely high. Any ideas will help. Thanks
Is there anything over the counter that you can take to lower your blood pressure? I cant get in to see a doctor for two weeks and cant afford to go to the hospital. I have a blood pressure testing monitor at home and it is extremely high. Any ideas will help. Thanks
Its better to go to the ER now for a few hours then to be carried in with a heart attack or stroke.
Hypertension medications are not available without a prescription due to the dangers associated with their improper use, so this will not be an option. Obviously you understand you need to see a physician ASAP, so I do not need to reiterate this. Unfortunately, there is no much you can do to immediately and significantly lower your BP. I can however offer yo some suggestions that may help until you can get an MD appointment.
Lowering your salt intake as much as possible will help, as it will lessen water reabsorption therefor helping help to lower your blood volume. Try to avoid stimulants (caffeine, etc). Although this will have more of an effect on your heart rate, it will help with your BP.
Decrease you potassium intake as well.
If you smoke: stop. Plain and simple.
Again, these suggestions are not really going to have much of an immediate effect, these are more long term effectors. Also, there is some research that says garlic, fish oil, and folic acid help with HTN as well. The mechanisms for hypertension are complex and longitudinal, so natural quick fixes don’t really apply here
Hope this helps.
IF your blood pressure gets to high, it can cause a stroke. Your best bet is to drink plenty of water, and lay around. Are you on an asprin a day? If not, you should be. If your BP doesn’t go down, go to Urgent care. This is not something you should mess with.
Raised blood pressures are not ailments, they are RESPONSES to ailments, … to whatever is wrong with you.
So it’s simply no use getting something from the pharmacy to lower the pressures (although many things can and do).
If you succeed in lowering your BP then the brain and central nervous mechanism will automatically cancel out what you’ve done, by altering something else, -usually your pulse rate, or degree of vaso-dilatation (or constriction) – so in effect you’re only fighting your own control mechanisms.
Why? Simply because you’re listening to some nutter who tells you you’ve got “high blood pressure?”……. Throw your monitor in the junk, and live your life. We’ve lived for 4000 generations without BP
monitors and heart tablets and thrived.
If you really insist on lowering your figures then any alkaloid will bring them down (Atropine for instance) but any reliable tension-reducer such as Diazepam will do it too, but it’s a futile exercise, as I described, because the originating cause is unaffected.l
There’s nothing available over the counter. Don’t worry too much about this, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be fine for a couple of weeks while you wait for a doctor’s appointment. This isn’t likely to be something they can deal with in hospital, blood pressure control can take many weeks to achieve and is best done by a GP.
In general, the following will help to lower your blood pressure.
Stop smoking
Reduce alcohol intake
Reduce caffeine intake
Reduce fat intake
Reduce salt intake
Lose weight if overweight
Exercise (preferably at least 30 minutes 3 times a week – you should work hard enough to get sweaty and out of breath)
Try not to stress too much
It’s better for a person to reduce their blood pressure naturally if possible, so monitor your blood pressure every couple of days for the next 2 weeks until you see your doctor. Record the readings, and it’ll show whether your lifstyle changes are working. I strongly recommend you try the above before you resort to drugs. And if you get any symptoms or feel ill, see a doctor ASAP.