Well I stopped taking my lisinopril because I heard it had snake venom in it along with some other bp meds. At the time everyone seemed to believe it was bad and we all thought many prescription drugs docs put us were bad for us, so I stopped cold turkey. Yes, my bp is high, but I had always had really good bp even though I didn't work out, just always busy doing normal things raising my kids, even when pregnant it was always really good too. Drove my husband crazy because his bp has always been a little high.

Anyway, I noticed that after I stopped taking some type of bp meds the doc put me on for my migraines, that now I had high bp. So that's when my bp got high was after I stopped the meds. Now many years later and it's even higher, even when on the lisinopril it seemed to not work as good as it first did. I'm trying everything not to give in and go back on them. Nothing seems to be helping enough though, yet.