How long can a person with untreated high blood pressure live before problems surface?30 year old male who fails to see the importance of remembering to take his medication; has only done so a handful of times in the last year; has had high blood pressure for 5 years due to an inherited kidney disease
Average BP= 150/110
Can you please give me something to scare him with b/c my lecturing is taken as nagging and ignored?
He doesn't smoke, drink caffeine, he eats healthy, and he exercises. The high BP is a symptom of the kidney disease. If he had unhealthy habits along with not taking his medicine to control it, he would probably already be dead.
Posted by Van Bo
5 - 8 years before kidney damage become Glomerulonephritis, and then they quit, and dialysis is required. Boy, that sure sucks.
Posted by вσуѕяυѕтιмєѕ3
I'm sorry I can't help becasue I am the same way. I have been on several medicatons for my blood pressure and I do not take them regularly either. :( The longer you allow your hypertension to go on the more damage it causes, it stresses your heart out, and slowly makes you ill.) The damage is irreversible.
ETA Now that I exercise regularly I no longer need to take medication. Maybe suggest that he alter other things (like cut out caffiene and stop smoking if he does)
Posted by Huguette
Not very long, I'm afraid. You can assure him that he won't last longer than another 40-50 years, and that in fact there's an outside chance he might die before you.
The high BP might even get him before cancer, or natural causes do.
I was diagnosed hypertensive in 1992, and my BP has been round 220/115 for years ever since.
I felt just like your friend and finally just threw the whole lot in the trash. Felt a load better I must say, but feel it's going to get me soon, -within the next twenty years or so, - but a man's got to do what a man's gottta do.........
I'm nearly 84 now, but doubt if I'll see a hundred.
But a least I've seen out 3 doctors who gave me the pills in the first place... 2 with heart attacks and one died of a stroke, -all took their tablets religiously too.......... funny that.
Cos they weren't old men really. all three died in their '60s and 70's
Posted by ♥HEARTS 808's KIDDO♥
150/110, that is up there Nina, especially if it is maintained for long periods of time, his BP is taking an extreme toll on his veins and arteries along with his vital organs, his heart and especially his kidneys which regulate blood pressure, he could have a stroke or go into complete kidney failure which leaves him with only three options, dialysis for life, kidney transplant(which the transplant team wouldn't even consider in his case since he obviously won't heed medical advice to care for himself, they won't waste a kidney on someone who won't care for it, kidneys are too hard to come by)or death...a vastly bleak outcome for an otherwise healthy 30 year old, who could prevent these outcomes by popping a couple of little pills daily. If he continues without treating his BP, I wouldn't give him more than about 10 years, and I'm certain he doesn't want to widow you and leave his precious little ones Fatherless.
Posted by Neil Johnson
It will inevitably spiral out of control if he does nothing about it. The high pressure will worsen the kidney damage leading to higher BP and so on.
It is a shame that he seems to have given up but this is because either the drugs were not working or they gave him side effects. (With kidney disease, doctors usually prescribe ACE inhibitors or if they cause side effects, Angiotensin receptor blockers are a very well tolerated alternative.).
However, let you friend know that what he will enjoy doing is to learn about a heart healthy lifestyle and see what else he can do to add to the non-drug measures he is taking. It will reduce his reliance on drugs although it is not likely he will be able to get off them totally.
Buy him a BP monitor for his birthday and get him to use it regularly - it is a great motivator.
As for scaring him - well, health behavior is a complicated thing to influence. Steady persuasion aimed at breaking down his barriers one by one will work better than scaring him. So talk to him and find out why he has given up caring.
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I am on dialysis and now after taking my meds faithfully, I am going for my first angiogram after about 2 years of high BP. I am slowly dying now (unless I can receive a doner for transplant in time. Tell your friend he must take his health seriously or what has happened to me WILL happen to him. Not might happen. It WILL happen and it ain`t fun to be this sick.
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