I am on BP meds for 25 years and still kicking! But my dosage is minimum possible.
I am sorry for being so vague and dramatic about blood pressure medicines killing. I’m hurting because I lost my beloved first cousin almost two weeks ago. He was 58 and in good health except he was on blood pressure medication and diuretic, plus he took a baby aspirin a day. And because of those he is gone.
He was on vacation with his wife. The diuretic made him have to pee all the time, getting up several times in the night. The blood pressure meds made him have low blood pressure sometimes, and something made him pass out from a standing position as he got up to pee that night on vacation. He blacked out and fell straight back onto a hard floor. He hit his head and that caused a massive brain bleed. Right in the middle of his brain, making it inoperable (though in the end they went in three times as last ditch efforts). The baby aspirin made it impossible for them to stop the bleeding. It was way too much blood to bring him back from.
So this is my perspective and I can only hope that none of you are on high doses of bp meds, and that you examine the natural ways to bring it down, and above all that you do not take daily baby aspirin. It is so easy to hit your head and people don’t realize how stopping bleeding in the brain is essential to survival.
Sorry, my friends, for my bitterness and grave pronouncement.