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How To Reduce Hypertension Medication?

my father's age is 55 years. he is have hyper tension since 10 years. but it is raising from 1 year. previous one year he used to take nebivolol 2.5 mg once a day. now he is taking nebivolol 5 + s amlodipine 2.5 mg twice a day. he is also taking medicine for raised uric acid contents and thyroxin sodium 25 mcg. he is always thinking of raised hypertension. please guide for reducing medicines.
Wed, 29 Apr 2015
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HI

Thanks for posting your query.

First of all there is no question of reducing medicines if his blood pressure is raising. First he needs to keep his blood pressure under control with the ongoing medicines , diet and exercise.

With time ( every 2 weeks ) he needs to increase his exercise duration or intensity or both. Let him follow a strict low salt diet .

Get his Blood pressure rechecked after 2 weeks , if it is extremely normal then we can consider reducing the dose of medicine but if the blood pressure is high normal or high then no chance of medicine reduction.

Also get his TSH test done if it is not under control his thyroxin dose has to be changed.

Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarification feel free to ask .
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How To Reduce Hypertension Medication?

HI Thanks for posting your query. First of all there is no question of reducing medicines if his blood pressure is raising. First he needs to keep his blood pressure under control with the ongoing medicines , diet and exercise. With time ( every 2 weeks ) he needs to increase his exercise duration or intensity or both. Let him follow a strict low salt diet . Get his Blood pressure rechecked after 2 weeks , if it is extremely normal then we can consider reducing the dose of medicine but if the blood pressure is high normal or high then no chance of medicine reduction. Also get his TSH test done if it is not under control his thyroxin dose has to be changed. Hope this information was useful to you. Any clarification feel free to ask .