ok, so here are the specifications (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Male,
29yrs old,
ever since i can remember (18-23) the BP was always on the top side of 120/80
then 3 yrs ago, lost job, panic, moving job,house,town etc. . . and ended myself in hospital
the only thing that to come out of it was that i had primary hypertention. . (the type where nothing is causing it) think its primary, and secondary is if there is an underlining cause.
anyway, im the primary. .
BP, highest i seen in hospital 3 yrs ago, was 178/110.. . lol. .
so, started on istin, every side affect you could think of. . and done nothing for the BP, it just stayed around 140/90.
dumped the istin within 2 months and started on anetanol, (excuse spelling) this tablet worked, brought the house down never mind the BP, pulse rate , the lot. . . . but started to have extreme skiping heart beat , , shock when u dont know what its like at first, but its very annoying. . so took it on myself to dump this tablet. .
6 months passed, and i got myself a new doctor in the new town i moved to . .
we put on a 24 hr monitor and took home readings for a while. . . average readings with no medication was max 145/95 to min 125/84 . . . so , she started me on 40mg of diovan.
very few side affects, sleep disruption maybe for a while. . . . BP came down a bit, maybe averaging 128/85. . . but was not going below the 120/80.
the specialist in the hospital that i was referred to 3 yrs ago has carried out i think all tests and he told me it was primary high BP. and 4 weeks ago up the medication to 80mg. since then i started wakening every morning at 4-5am and not able to fall back to sleep, 14 days into the medication i started developing pain in and around the heart area and on my left arm. . .
the BP has again fallen to around 115/76. but dont like the meds, worried what they might do for me longterm. .

I have just started to build my own home with my wife, and now that the life insurance company is cashing in on someone like me, it bothers me. I dont want to be a risk. .

Question:
How does someone like me fit in with this Resperate machine.. . how and when do i give the meds up? feel free to ask questions, ill be checking back. .

ps. . . I just feel like i need to work on my BP,
I will admitt, i am a thinker, worrior, ( stressed) wound up, not all the time, but more than your average Joe.

help. .

Read the sodium content of EVERYTHING you eat, do not use a salt shaker or add salt to anything. In most cases there is already plenty in our diets

Drink lots of water, whatever amount you feel is a lot, double it. Look at a gallon a day goal

Stop Coffee and Soda, high levels of caffeine can give you short bursts of HBP

You want to correct this asap to prevent thickening of the heart muscle, Benicar is very good for reversing thickening. There are also several other medication paths that you can take, but 1st try to get your diet to do this for you