Thursday, June 11, 2009

Medication And Blood Pressure

By Bret Finnego

If you think about Blood pressure Medication, you may also think about side effects. That goes for any medication.

All medication comes with instructions or information and if you read it then it can be pretty scary, because the side effects can sound worse than the problem the medication is trying to fix.

It would be rare to suffer all of the possible side effects if any at all, you might be lucky and not suffer any of them. But there is that chance and it make you wonder if you can treat your problem without the use of medicine.

There has always been alternatives to prescribed medication and there has been skepticism about whether any of them actually work. But it has got to be worth a try, well in my opinion anyway. Think about this for a minute, prescribed medication is dished out far to easily and at an alarming rate. Which is why the Pharmaceutical Industry is making obscene amounts of money.

All medications including Blood Pressure medication should be the last thing prescribed. Alternatives need to be exhausted first and possible lifestyle changes are the first thing to be considered. it is surprising how simple adjustment to how we live on a daily basis can have a sizeable impact on bringing down High Blood Pressure.

The Governments of our nations should be using the media to make their public more aware of how harmful Hypertension can be to our health. Ther needs to be more understanding of how Hypertension can effect our health. Far to many of us don't realise we might even have Higher then normal Blood Pressure let alone what it can tdo to our bodies.

There are some simple steps that can be taken to help lower BP naturally which could avoid many having to take blood pressure medication, which would also mean they would avoid the dreaded side effects that lurk within the medication.

Now is the right time to make sure you don't have Hypertension by getting checked out. If your test shows you having higher than normal Blood Pressure then before you accept any medication check out any kind of alternative including changes to the way you live your daily life.

There are occassions when the Doctor may give you a very valid reason why you have to go onto prescibed Drugs to control your BP, this may be some reason like family history. But if there is no real valid reason then you have to have the chance of an alternative first.

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