Dec 15/09 I'm in Canada, and I read your note about your Friend's High Blood pressure and the efforts to control it. I stsrted getting high blood preesure problems out of the blue. I was being treated with all sorts of medication. 6 months later, they finally decided to do an ultrasound on my kidneys. It turned out that I have drining problems (into the bladder) which put pressure on my kidneys, which created the abnormally high blood pressure in return.
Conclusion: Perhaps your Friend could request that a "pelvic ultra-sound" be performed on him, just to make sure that its not the kidneys creating this problem.
J-L, Calgary, Canada