Well my pharmacy won't refill my blood pressure medicine anymore (lisinopril 10 mg) and says I'll have to talk to my doctor. I've been off of it for a few days now and I'm starting to think I'd be better off just not taking it any more. It wasn't ever dangerously high to begin with, just a little higher than they'd like for it to be. I know it's best to talk to a doctor before getting off of medicine and probably would want me to wean off, but meh, if I die from not taking such a low dose of a medicine then I probably didn't have much of a life span anyway.
Since I've quit, I feel better in some ways and worse in others. I feel like there's a knot in my chest and slight pressure in my head. No pain though, just a tight feeling. Most likely either a withdrawal from the med or just anxiety/nerves from simply knowing I'm not taking my medicine. But I feel better in that my heartbeat feels much more regular. (when I was on the medicine it would speed up and slow down frequently, which while it's a normal side effect of the medicine it was very annoying and it made me feel weird at times. Don't miss that) And I don't have a palpitation anymore which I had while taking the medicine (best way to describe it would be an uncomfortable awareness of my own heartbeat), as well as I no longer get dizzy or lightheaded upon standing up or get out of breath as easily, also my muscles feel alot stronger now, lifting the same objects at work now feels much easier than it did when I was on the medicine (which I was on for three years). So I'm hoping that in a few days my system will adjust and I will lose the feeling of tightness/tenseness and will just simply have the benefits of not having the medicine, which I'm not entirely sure I needed to begin with but nevertheless developed a dependency from being on it so long. I'm hoping that without taking it my system will adapt and lower my BP on it's own. The highest it ever was without the medicine was 143/85 and that was a high it wasn't usually even that high, and with the medicine it was about 130/78 most of the time, and I kindof think that being on this medicine at such a young age (early 20's) was merely hampering my body's natural ability to fight BP. It was only high to begin with because I was smoking K2, which I haven't done in over two years now.