I don't like taking meds either, but unfortunately the high blood pressure and non-stop acid reflux has put me on ramipril and bendroflumethiazide, and lanzoprazole. I'm up for a meds review in the next month, and I'll fight tooth and nail if he tries to put me on any more. Going onto daily meds about 5 years ago was the first sign of the onset of late middle age for me - my mum did too, and for the same reasons.

The BP is a bit higher than they would like, but it's up and down all the time anyway. I am sure it's nothing that losing a bit more weight, being more active, getting the house fixed up, sold, and moving to pastures new won't solve. Until then I just put up with the frustrations and angst that recent widowhood, and a house renovation that seems to have stalled have foisted on me!

It don't help when you have a pharmacist for a daughter, either!

Andrea