Lowering Blood Pressure

[Bubnomore]

Hello,

If you’ve done it successfully, how did you do it and how long did it take you to get your BP back to an acceptable level?

Genetics are probably against me. Not grossly overweight but could benefit from loosing a few pounds. Swing from being athletic to being sedentary, when life gets in the way. Diet not horrendous - albeit chocolate and a good biscuit are dear friends of mine, and keep me sane!

TIA

In my 30s, I managed to get my blood pressure back down to normal by losing a couple of stone and exercising more, focusing on cardio stuff. In my 40s I still needed antihypertensives...

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately my 30’s have been and gone.

Currently doing a 24 hour assessment. Albeit my readings still seem on the high side to me.

Generally losing weight and cutting down on alcohol will help.

Can I ask what your readings are, op?
Mine has shot up since I had a virus about 5 weeks ago. I just wanted a comparison really. Im already on bp meds so the dr has doubled them

Going to try and adjust lifestyle to lose 1 or 2 stone. Doing so would probably make me a dress size 10-12 and hence don’t think will aim for more than this.

Don’t drink much alcohol - several glasses a year, and can happily cut this out.

Drink plenty of water.

My readings really vary. When fitted with the 24 hour monitor first reading was 116/181 within a couple of hours 79/130 most of the other readings around 100+|150+.

At times I wonder if something else is being missed that could contribute to it. Too easy to say genetics.

Mainly drink water, or juice, but can up my water intake and will do. Thanks.

Goes off to get some more water to drink ...

The only thing that brought down mine was medication, it took three years to find a combination that worked. When I was diagnosed, in my early 40s, I was on the verge of a stroke.

Mine is currently 169/119. I already take ace inhibitors, which my dr has doubled. But it hasn't gone down much. I do need to lose some weight, so maybe that is the answer

Starting the slow process of trying to lose 1 or 2 stone. Also, will see what the doctor says about the readings, and whether I will need to take meds or not.

I brought mine down in month by doing 10 minutes of yoga a day. Can't remember the figures, sorry, but it went from not being able to have hrt to being able to have it, which was my goal!

Weight loss, reducing alcohol and medication. Don't be scared of the drugs they have a place.

Intermittent fasting can help. Try 18/6 or 16/8.

Intermittent fasting, diet and exercise made not one jot of difference to my bp, although I daresay it would be higher if I didn't do anything. Avoiding salt and things like liquorice helps, but I definitely rely on meds to keep it down. Runs in my family so I'm pretty resigned to it.

Medication, but I'm on a low, precautionary dose since bringing it down a decade ago through weight loss and exercise, (running and yoga). My weight has crept up and my exercise levels down recently though - need to get back on track!