Has anyone else played this "game" of roulette?? It's rather frustrating trying to work with Doc to find the winning combination of high blood pressure meds to bring the BP to a reasonable level-- and avoiding the worst of the life-changing side effects.

Right now my combo of two meds is doing a wonderful job of keeping my BP in good order, but with side effect of ankle edema and weight gain. I can live with the edema -- it's not terrible -- but the weight gain is kind of depressing.

Doc wants to try a new combo -- but not sure that I want to put my body through yet another trial of new meds.

Wondering if it's better to live and accept current side effects (which are less intolerable than previous side effects with different meds)?

Anyhow, thanks for letting me think out loud here.

I've found that prescribing HBP meds is a very inexact science of trial and error.

And your meds may not work for me. Because each of us is so unique. Grrrr...

How's your roulette going?