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Should I Be Concerned For 162/112 Blood Pressure?

Was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Am taking meds for both but am only taking 1/2 the high blood pressure pill because I don t like side effects. Today, I checked my blood pressure and the reading is 162 over 112 with a pulse of 62. Should I be concerned about this?
Thu, 26 Jun 2014
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hello sir. i read your question and try to give best answer. you are having a bit high bp. you should use drugs to normalize it . drugs usually will have side effects that doesnt mean we should avoid them your blood pressure will cause more indolent damage than the drugs itself. drugs dont cause s/e in everry person.. but hypertension will go its way and start disease without showing symptoms until very large damage happened.
so my sincere advice is use drugs to relive high bp. if not now we have better drug combinations to dec high bp with less s/e...
hope you recover soon. thankyou for asking hcm
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Should I Be Concerned For 162/112 Blood Pressure?

hello sir. i read your question and try to give best answer. you are having a bit high bp. you should use drugs to normalize it . drugs usually will have side effects that doesnt mean we should avoid them your blood pressure will cause more indolent damage than the drugs itself. drugs dont cause s/e in everry person.. but hypertension will go its way and start disease without showing symptoms until very large damage happened. so my sincere advice is use drugs to relive high bp. if not now we have better drug combinations to dec high bp with less s/e... hope you recover soon. thankyou for asking hcm