My husband forgot his blood pressure pills when he went away to work and was Without them for five days.  I couriered them and he has them.  I told himTo get a monitor which he did.  He took his pressure and it was 145over 118.  Is this bad and will it go down Now that he is back on his med?
Hello and thank you for using Chat Doctor. I carefully read your question and I understand your concern. I will try to explain you and give my opinion. You should know that when we treat hypertension our goal is to have mean value below 140 / 90 mmHg. A person might have high value during emotional, physicals trees or if he doesn't take a regular medication. You should not worry about the blood pressure value that you have found, it is nothing bad. Stopping the Chat Doctor.  Hypertension is a chronic disease, and it should be treated all live long. Stopping the medication will lead to high values. Of course if your husband will start taking the medications regularly than every thing will come back as it was before. If he had stable values under treatment before than starting medication will bring back stable values again so don't worry. Hope I was helpful. Best regards, 