Textbook!

Ok, so since my birthday at the end of May I have been working on getting my blood pressure under control.  My entire adult life, every time I went to the doctor my BP was high, but both I and the doctor’s had always written it off as “white coat syndrome”.  I went for a physical in May and mentioned that it was always high, plus it was like 175/115 that day which is insane.  So we tried a month of diet and exercise…nada.  Then he put me on hydrochlorothiazide.  I went back in a month and this seemed to help a bit, my BP was down to about 155/98. It was now the end of July and it wasn’t down enough so we tried a higher dose.  After two months my BP didn’t really change.  So I went back to the Dr. this week (October 3^rd) and he added another drug, lisinopril.  So now, after just two days on that I took my BP and guess what 121/80.  So for the first time in like, forever, my blood pressure is normal.  Not just normal, but textbook normal!  I don’t like textbooks, but this I’ll take!!!!!