There is no such thing as a medicine that doesn’t have some bad effects.
I have arthritis. Can,t take cellebrex, Doctor told me not to take naproxen, Tylenol will ruin my liver, and aspirin will ruin my stomach.
High Blood pressure will kill me if the medicine I take for it doesn’t kill me first.Many people are taking rat poisoning (warfarin) to stay alive .I haven’t reached that point yet. Pretty soon I will be old enough where I get cut off and rationed by Obamacare.
Stay healthy ——if you can.
same here... celebrex made me feel like a million bucks... until my blood pressure shot off the charts and my urine turned dark brown...
I am now taking enbrel...
A friend on aspirin for arthritus wound up with a hole in his stomach.
My mom lived until she was 90....wouldn't take her medicine.
Try Flax seed oil. I’ve seen miracles in people with high blood pressure. (Hubby, friend, mother, me)
Look it up! When I research a supplement, I stay away from the hype and only look at the medical research.
My friend’s cardiologist had her try it about ten years ago. He told her it was his first line of defense for high BP. Most of his patients were normalized within a month without drugs. It worked for her; so, when hubby’s BP started going up, I gave it to him. Within a month, he was fine, now he takes it daily and has no more BP issues. Same thing happened with my mom.
Cutting back on carbs helps, too.
I believe that aspirin will not ruin a stomach if taken with food. Aspirin that is not released until it is in the small intestine is available.
I believe if aspirin were invented today it would be heralded as a miracle pain reliever and would be sold for $3 or more per pill and only available by prescription. Aspirin is an amazingly effective pain reliever in my opinion.
However, to be effective for me and I would estimate all adults weighing more than 100 pounds the number of 325 mg pills needed will exceed the 2 or 3 pills prescribed for a 12 year old. Pain relief for me occurs in less than one minute and last six to eight hours. Pain relief from other more modern non prescription pain relievers takes effect in 10-30 minutes and begins to diminish within 1-3 hours.
***Doctor told me not to take naproxen,****
I will not take anything with naproxen (Naperson) in it. My mom talked her doctor into perscribing naperson for her arthritis. He warned her that he would have to monitor her kidneys close. One dose killed her kidneys dead. She died a few months later of renal failure.
You’re the first person I know of who can’t take Celebrex, which is one of the least harmful NSAIDs.
There are some tricks worth investigating for high blood pressure, such as garlic, which is fine for some, not so good for others, and fat soluble vitamin C, which is best to make yourself, but not particularly hard if you know how, and much less hard on the stomach.
“...a daily supplement of 500 mg (vitamin C) dropped systolic blood pressure, the top number in the blood pressure reading, by 9 percent after four weeks”, according to the Linus Pauling Institute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeU—wadrMY
Potassium supplements, with your doctor’s permission, can be very good for dropping high blood pressure. Oddly enough, potassium supplements only contain a tiny amount, compared to Morton salt substitute, 1/4 tsp of which has 17% of the US RDA. It also tastes almost the same as table salt, that is, they have improved the flavor considerably.
The two favored oils to reduce blood pressure and with other good cardiovascular properties are olive oil and Omega-3 fish oil. And both you can consume in quantity.
The nuclear weapon of herbal medicine is oregano oil, that contains dozens of anti-inflammatory chemicals, pain relievers almost as good as opiates, and lowers blood pressure both systolic and diastolic.
The spice cardamom at 3g/day has also been shown to reduce blood pressure without side effects.
Vitamin D is a natural ACE inhibitor. ACE inhibitors are used for both hypertension and congestive heart failure.