Can I stop taking antihypertensive medication if my blood pressure is normal?

“Can I stop taking antihypertensive drugs when my blood pressure is normal?” , this question is often encountered in the clinic, and some patients will come back to consult, while others will stop their own medication, or after consulting the Internet, get lay people to support the discontinuation of the answer, which eventually leads to serious consequences. Patients repeatedly stop antihypertensive drugs or take antihypertensive drugs regular, light will lead to poor blood pressure control, causing hypertensive heart disease, hypertensive nephropathy, fundus hemorrhage, retinal detachment and other serious complications, heavy due to blood pressure fluctuations are too large, causing brain hemorrhage, resulting in patients hemiplegia or death, so we need to strictly comply with the principle of long-term application of antihypertensive drugs. We need to understand the concept that normal blood pressure is the result of taking antihypertensive drugs, and termination of antihypertensive treatment will sooner or later return blood pressure to the level before treatment, so after antihypertensive treatment to achieve the target blood pressure, long-term medication is required, and regular follow-up blood pressure, monitoring other risk factors and changes in cardiovascular disease, appropriate adjustment of medication according to the situation, regular medication, the type of antihypertensive drugs used should not be changed frequently, hypertensive patients Usually need lifelong antihypertensive treatment, but the dose and type of medication can be carefully and gradually reduced after long-term blood pressure control is stabilized, especially for those patients who can strictly implement non-pharmacological treatment. Therefore when blood pressure is normalized, it is still important to adhere to long-term regular antihypertensive therapy, continuously monitor blood pressure changes, and seek professional physicians to adjust medications, rather than stopping or changing medications privately.