Fight Hypertension

Lowering high blood pressure is most times, a reachable goal. There are very few instances where a person's blood pressure cannot be lowered. While it is possible to be born with a type of hypertension known as primary or essential hypertension and little can be done to alter it, essential hypertension or any common type of hypertension usually responds to healthy lifestyle changes.

In just about all cases, your doctor will find a safe medication that will get the blood pressure reading into an acceptable range. Then, by following a plan, the hypertension can be lowered to a perfect, or very close to perfect reading. This is true except in extremely rare cases.

It has to be Important to You

The key to being able to get a firm handle on hypertension is you have to want to do it. Living a life that includes dieting, exercising, giving up or severely limiting certain foods and laying off the sauce, for the most part can get you to your goal. However, it is unrealistic to expect anyone can make these sorts of lifestyle changes without making a concerted effort.

Still, before I discourage you altogether and make your new healthy regime sound next to impossible to follow, let me add this. The efforts I made in getting a firm grip on and then lowering my blood pressure readings all came in the first three weeks of my anti-hypertension vendetta. After about three weeks, all the things I had been laboring to do became second nature. There was a time I was a potato chip-a-holic. After three weeks of staying away from them, you would have to mug me to get a potato chip down my throat!

It Only Hurts for a Little While

For me to eat less food and drink less beer, at one time seemed like an impossibility, but now, it's second nature to follow this healthier lifestyle where I limit my beer to a little each week and I simply eat a little less and snack a little less. Yes, making these changes was really hard at first, but now that I am over the hump, it isn't very hard at all.

So, if you've been told, like all we hypertension sufferers have been told, you have to limit your salt intake, drink only moderately, lose weight and exercise; I want you to know you can absolutely, positively do it. The key is you have to want to make a change in your life or you're not going to. However, take heart because today's change is tomorrow's habit. Following a hypertension control regiment might look like a most daunting task at first, but once you get the hang of it, which will take about three weeks, very little effort will be required.

Jason Falson has lived with hypertension for many years. He has credited the remarkable improvement he has seen in his high blood pressure to a change in the way he lives his life. This is, of course, along with following his doctor's orders. He recommends hypertension sufferers learn the same techniques he uses by visiting Symptom of Hypertension Also, learn more about the connection between hypertension and anxiety and how to control it at Dealing With Anxiety