How do I get off the blood pressure medicine..........

.w/o aggravating the living daylights out of my PCP? I've been monitoring it by stopping in a local durg store every day. Seems like I feel worse when I take it than when I do not. I'm 5-1/2 months post op, down 72 lbs., about 70-75 to go. My surgeon told me to go ahead and stop the cholesterol meds and to cut the b.p. in half. Is it true you can't stop taking the b.p. med all at once? Why not? When I take it, I feel dizzy. Today I didn't take it, I felt fine. Stopped and had it monitored and it was fine. I am confused.

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