Blood pressure needs lowering anyone managed it without medication?

You can help yourself to be healthier with a better diet, exercise and so on, but why are you hesitating to go to the GP to find out just how high your blood pressure is? How will you know whether you are succeeding with the lifestyle changes if you don't know what the current level is? That is not "rushing to the doctors", it is getting the facts before the acts.

If you say to them that you want to try not using medication, you will get plenty of help and advice, but it may be that the medication is the best way to start off the process of lowering it (if it is indeed raised)

Nope I've always walked, right weight for height, healthy diet and yet I've been on bp tablets since middle age. In my case it's hereditary and lifestyle helps but does not cure it.

Good luck Lollin but why not have your blood pressure actually checked by GP first?
Years ago my GP said that patients could lose weight which would help ( and walking is good) but if blood pressure is high it needs to be brought under control immediately, which means medication.I have no side effects with the ones that I take.

I managed to get my ex husband's BP down using Hawthorn tablets and persuading him to do 15 minutes of Qi Gong (or you could do Tai Chi or Yoga) each day.

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