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AndyS 19 Feb 10:37am, 19 Feb 2024 2,645 posts	0 AndyS I could come off the drugs. Has any GP ever taken a patient OFF BP drugs once they've been prescribed?
Boffin 19 Feb 10:52am, 19 Feb 2024 260 posts	0 Boffin I agree in principle NordRunner 👍, however, my fear is exactly as AndyS says; figure if I accepted now, it would be for life and onto to the slippery slope before my time 🤔🤣
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 19 Feb 10:57am, 19 Feb 2024 40,723 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I understand your view completely Boffin , due to my high cholesterol and heart disease in my family my gp and hospital consultant recommended statins 6years or so ago, by changing my diet to vegetarian then vegan I did manage to bring cholera down, however now it is higher than ever so have decided it's time to take the advice of the professionals. Good luck.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 19 Feb 10:58am, 19 Feb 2024 40,724 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Cholesterol not cholera 🤣 I should proof read!
Boffin 19 Feb 11:16am, 19 Feb 2024 261 posts	0 Boffin Who knows Mrs Jigs; perhaps you have the new cure for cholera 🤔🙂 Encouraged by yesterday's BP reading and hoping for a downward trend... not so much 🙄 just done another reading 157/104... the diastolic (104) is more frustrating at the moment ... no worries, Rome wasn't built in a day etc etc
Boffin 19 Feb 11:20am, 19 Feb 2024 262 posts	0 Boffin I would think if you have a predisposition for high cholesterol Mrs Jigs, then perhaps trying to control with diet alone may have been a tall order 🤔
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 19 Feb 11:22am, 19 Feb 2024 40,727 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) It did work for a few years, I will continue with majority vegan diet but occasionally have cheese, i will never go back to eating animals.
Fenland Flier 19 Feb 11:28am, 19 Feb 2024 11,231 posts	0 Fenland Flier AndyS Has any GP ever taken a patient OFF BP drugs once they've been prescribed? Yes, my wife. Our current doctor believed she has whitecoat hypertension disorder and reduced her BP meds before taking her off them, whereas our previous GP didn't believe in the disorder and put her on the meds in the first place.
Boffin 19 Feb 11:45am, 19 Feb 2024 263 posts	0 Boffin Your current GP did well Fenland Flier, not to recognise whitecoat hypertension is regretable 😟 leading to misdiagnosis and needs not needed. Glad she got it sorted 👍
Boffin 19 Feb 11:46am, 19 Feb 2024 264 posts	0 Boffin Needs... 🤔, meds 🙄