How should I take hypertension medication?

  Many people have this confusion: the elderly, middle-aged, and even young people suffer from hypertension, the antihypertensive drugs have been so eaten, and do not stop, nor adjust, can ah!  According to epidemiological research data, only 10 out of 100 hypertensive patients know they have the disease, and only 3 out of 10 are controlled by medication. In other words, for every 100 people with hypertension, only 1 person is satisfied with their treatment. This is the current situation in China!  If our parents or close family members and friends are already on long-term antihypertensive medication, congratulations Ta, you are already among the 3% of the advanced cohort. The topic we are talking about today is only for these 3% of people.  Hypertension drugs, there are many kinds of choices, diuretics, ACEI, ARB, CCB, BB, AB, central antihypertensive drugs, peripheral vasodilator drugs and so on and so forth, which specific people with which kind, how to use, with how much, very delicate.  After the medication is used and the blood pressure starts to be controlled, what must be done, and what most people do not insist on doing, is self-monitoring. In fact, the one time you take your blood pressure at the clinic, you don’t take it. It is only a point value and often inaccurate and not very meaningful. Its current existence is more of a psychological comfort to the patient. Blood pressure control, seeking values to fall into the normal range, also requires stability. Recent studies increasingly suggest that blood pressure volatility has an independent risk role in the development of cardiovascular disease. I often urge patients to take their blood pressure at three points every day, early in the morning, before dinner, and before bedtime, and to tell me the measured values in a few days, and I will help you adjust your medication. Only such blood pressure medication adjustment is meaningful.  In summer, when it is hot, sweating is high, and neurohumoral and volumetric factors balance each other, blood pressure tends to be lower than in winter. Blood pressure medication many people keep taking, and do not self-monitor, and do not take into account the spring, summer, autumn and winter, to answer the question of the title, which is actually not right.  Hypertension is a problem that may not be curable, but by taking good care of yourself under the guidance of your doctor, hypertension can be defeated.