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How Long Will Blood Pressure Take To Regulate After Taking Amlodipine?
My Husband blood pressure was very high 214/114 he went to the E.R. Our family Doctor put him on 5mgs of amlodipine. He's been on it for about 10 days. His blood pressure flucuates on day it's 136/79 the next day it's 154/95. How long does it take for the med's to work???
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I carefully passed through your question and would explain that it takes up to a week for the changes in anti-hypertensive therapy to show their real effect.
But, as he has been on this therapy more than 10 days, no further changes to his blood pressure are expected.
So, I recommend discussing with his attending physician the possibility of making some changes to his actual therapy (increase the dose to 10 mg daily or add another anti-hypertensive agent, for ex. an ACE inhibitor).
Hope to have been helpful!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I carefully passed through your question and would explain that it takes up to a week for the changes in anti-hypertensive therapy to show their real effect.
But, as he has been on this therapy more than 10 days, no further changes to his blood pressure are expected.
So, I recommend discussing with his attending physician the possibility of making some changes to his actual therapy (increase the dose to 10 mg daily or add another anti-hypertensive agent, for ex. an ACE inhibitor).
Hope to have been helpful!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
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