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My mother is aged 65, weight: 50 kgs (5 ft 2 in). She is having high blood pressure 140/90 to 160/90 last 02 years. She is under medication of losartan potassium 50 mg twice daily (btd) for high bp and also thyroxine sodium i.p. 25 mcg for hyper thyroidism (tsh 7.90 microlu/ml anti tpo antibody 173.8). Cbc, lipid profile, liver panel, blood na, k values, fasting & pp bs, serum creatinine are all in normal range. Ecg impression is also quite normal. She occasionally takes alprazolam for insomnia disorder (02 tab weekly). Kindly advise suitable medicine to normalise the hypertensive disorder.
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She might be having hypothyroidism not hyper. I need to look at reports before changing medicine. Kindly review with reports on my private post. Will suggest you suitable medicine.
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I feel her medication are ok .only that when was the thyroxine started. .n tsh done .we might require increasing dose to 32.5 n if bp is more thsn 150/ 90 on most days of week we made need to escalate on anti hypertensive s. Regards alprazolam try avoiding it can substitute with zolfresh 5 mg bed time it's safe n non addicting.
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Ask your Dr. whether it will help if he changes to losartan h or losartan a once daily.
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