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Suggest Treatment To Control Blood Pressure

My blood pressure keeps reading almost 180 over 120 with a home blood pressure device. I have been diagnosed with high blood pressure and am taking 40 mg Benazepril. With my pressure at this level, should I be immediately concerned or am I ok to wait to contact my doctor tomorrow. I am a 41 year old male 6'2 265lbs
Sat, 19 May 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service.

I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

The current high blood pressure levels should be brought to normal level gradually and it's the general rule. So I would advise not to worry and meet the doctor tomorrow. He may increase or add another drugs for controlling your BP levels. Only in certain cases, BP needs to be dropped immediately, when high BP affects your brain (i.e. when one starts behaving inappropriately due to high BP or one's vision gets affected suddenly with high BP), otherwise it's not an emergency.

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Suggest Treatment To Control Blood Pressure

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. The current high blood pressure levels should be brought to normal level gradually and it s the general rule. So I would advise not to worry and meet the doctor tomorrow. He may increase or add another drugs for controlling your BP levels. Only in certain cases, BP needs to be dropped immediately, when high BP affects your brain (i.e. when one starts behaving inappropriately due to high BP or one s vision gets affected suddenly with high BP), otherwise it s not an emergency. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.