Types of blood pressure medication names.
What are the most common blood pressure medications? The field of blood pressure medication is very complex. There are many classes of compounds, like diuretics, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, angiotension receptor blockers (ARBs), calcium-channel blockers, and others. You can ask your physician to describe the effects and side effects of any medication prescribed. The good news is that you can do a great deal to lower blood pressure without drugs, resorting to drugs only for extreme cases or making the needed dose much lower. Again, these drugs have side effects, and if you are taking them, you cannot stop using them abruptly as abnormal surges in blood pressure could cause major trouble, if not death. Some major side effects of these drugs are as follows: • all can make the blood pressure fall too low and cause symptoms of faintness and weakness. • diuretics: may cause weakness due to loss of too much of the body’s potassium; can raise uric acid, cholesterol, and trigl...