It seems reasonable to expect the medication is not necessary if the underlying cause is corrected. But as you know there are individual that have high blood pressure secondary to another medical condition and sometimes the cause is not known.
My doctor wants the blood pressure is as low as possible without side effects...but that is treatment for heart failure, and I can go along with that as there are no side effects.
Half life for the medication I take (lisinopril) is 12 hours (half remains). Interestingly, no matter what the half-life of a medication is, it takes about 4 half-life units for the concentration of a medication in the system to reach a steady state. Thus if you begin taking a medication with a half-life of 24 hours, on the fifth day the rate of intake of the drug will approximately equal the rate of elimination. If the half-life is 12 hours, you'll reach that state at the beginning of the third day.
I'm about to do the same. I've been on BP meds for many years, but thru diet, exercise and reducing my stress, my numbers have been low. I have been taking 1/4 of my BP pill a day for one year and it has stayed down, so now he wants me to stop. I think hypertension can be reduced, by what we have done. I have a BP monitor at home which I use to keep track of my BP and often take it with me to the doctors to make sure it's reading the same as their's. This is a good way for you to keep a check on yours, and if it starts climbing back up, you know what to do. Hypertension is controllable thru exercise, diet and lowering stress, so I hope we can both remain off of the meds. I'm sure your medication is out of your system by now, so hopefully this is a good sign!
Take care......
Sorry about that double post, I was posting it on the expert forum and it didn't show up there, just kind of disappeared after I hit submit. I then decided to post it here without looking. The first one was here instead, not sure how.........