I’m too young to live on all these blood pressure control drugs; how to avoid them?

If you need all that your blood pressure is hard to control. You can try loosing a little weight and stay away from salt, that means reading labels on prepared foods. I've taken bp meds since before I was 39. Taking pills is far better then dying of a stroke.

Some people are just hypertensive (have high blood pressure) for no reason. My 19 year old son has been on blood pressure medication since he was 17. He is not in the least bit overweight. He is tall (6 foot)and on the thinner side (he wears a 29 inch waist pants and he wears his pants on his hips so you know he is not fat!) We tested his heart and his kidneys and they couldnt find any reason for the high blood pressure. It is just a family trait like dark hair and dark eyes. Some people are just hard to control. You can try watching your sodium intake and if you are overweight, it never hurts to lose some weight, but you may just have to come to grips with the fact that you are hypertensive and will need meds to control it. I have been on meds since I was 37 for hypertension. It just runs in the family.