Today an old patient came to follow up and said to me: "Doctor Chen, I have been in hypertension 10 for the past year and have no symptoms. My blood pressure is dropping very well now. Do you think you can stop the antihypertensive drugs?"
I firmly gave him a negative answer: "It must not work!"
In real life, there are many people who think like this patient. They think hypertension is just an increase in blood pressure, and the body does not feel uncomfortable. It's no big deal! The antihypertensive drugs I took have side effects, so stop!
In fact, this approach is very harmful.
Hypertension often has no obvious symptoms, and the damage to blood vessels is secretly developed. You don’t have headaches, dizziness, or uncomfortableness in normal times, allowing you to relax your vigilance a little bit, and suddenly give you a heavy blow when you are caught off guard, making you unable to defend yourself.
Many patients have life-threatening complications of stroke and myocardial infarction, and realize their serious harm, but it is too late.
Therefore, patients with hypertension must pay attention to and be vigilant about this disease, follow the doctor's advice, take medicine on time, do not stop or reduce medicine without authorization, and adopt an active and healthy lifestyle to avoid the occurrence of serious complications.
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