What to do if you forget to take your high blood pressure medication

If you find that you have forgotten to take your hypertension medication, you can monitor your blood pressure first to see if it has caused any major fluctuations and whether there is a significant increase. There are long-acting and short-acting oral antihypertensive drugs, and long-acting antihypertensive drugs generally need to reach a steady-state concentration, so occasionally missing a meal does not have a significant impact on blood pressure and can be taken without replacement. If the patient is taking short-acting antihypertensive drugs, for example, 3 times a day, there is a high probability that if the patient misses 1-2 times, it may cause an increase in blood pressure, and in this case, according to the measured blood pressure, it is necessary to see if the patient needs to take antihypertensive drugs.