Well done. High blood pressure is recently being treated more aggressively. The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology have recently updated their blood pressure guidelines. There was a large trial called the SPRINT trial that was stopped 3 years into a 5 year study because the outcomes between the experimental groups were so different. The outcomes of patients who were more vigorously controlled with a systolic blood pressure (top number) of 120 were much better than those who were managed less intensively (systolic blood pressure of 140).

I like to encourage my patients with hypertension to pick up a home blood pressure monitor and record the measurements before or once we start a new medicine. This will allow more accurate tracking of blood pressure and avoid unnecessarily treating "white coat hypertension" (elevated blood pressure in your doctor's office).