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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lainie71" data-source="post: 2392672" data-attributes="member: 535579"><p>I was prescribed blood pressure meds 3 years ago, the worse thing as the side effects were terrible.  Now my weight is coming off due to to exercise and low carb diet, my blood pressure is coming down and I am determined to come off them - with or without my gps tales of whoa.  My stress levels and anxieties push the numbers up but I was in such a tizzy when prescribed them and from day one my hair began to fall out in clumps, I had always had thick hair.  Despite taking a vitamin for hair and nails the nails grow like mad, the hair grows but its thin a lot thinner.  I sometimes wonder if these drugs are pushed on us for another reason other than "health". The amount of times I have battled with gps about anxiety meds - only to be told by a senior psychiatrist that they cause terrible side effects and mask the problems, that talking is far better. Not rocket science is it.  If I am going to have stroke then stick me on meds after the event not before when I can try and sort it out myself. As for statins, they know the answer I will give so they do not ask me now!  Gp told me I was too young to be on BP meds and to lose weight, well I am so lets see what she says in a few more months!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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