Can I change/stop my high blood pressure medication? 我可以自行换/停用我的高血压药吗？

Simple answer: it's a no no.

答案很简单：不能哦

Have you ever wondered why high blood pressure medications can be obtained only when you have a doctor's prescription letter?

您曾经深思过为何您一定要有医生开的药单才能获取您的高血压药呢？

Let me tell you the truth. 

让我告诉您。

You think you feel good about your body, or you feel that you can stop/change your own medication because of certain trivial reasons, but you can never know the hazardous complications to be aroused because of your reckless decision. 

或许您认为自己了解自己的身体/药物，或许您认为自己可以自由决定换掉自己的药物（我朋友吃的药比较好，等原因），但您从不了解您鲁莽的决定也许会造成您未来的健康伤害。

Before deciding the right medications for a patient, a thorough body check up and a full range of blood tests should be practised by a practitioner aka your honored doctor stranger. Through all the health results collected in the later stage, your doctor will wisely decide the right medications according to your kidney, your gastrointestinal systems, your blood circulation, your body enzymes, genes etc. 

After you medications are being selected they need to be screened through by a trained pharmacist. If any supplements/traditional herbs/other medications that you're adhering to tends to cause potential serious interaction with your newly selected blood pressure medication, another round of selection will be done.

在决定给药物前，医生和药剂师会依照您的体检报告、血液检验、您的身体适应度、和您现今在持续吃着的药物草药保健品等，依据衡量并择决定您适合的高血压药物。若药物在某个筛选过程中被查询并发现不适合您，新的药物将重新被审视并重新挑选。

This is a complicated process where your doctor need to compare the pros and cons of every potential medications if they can optimise their actions in your body to control your blood pressure.

这个盛重的药物筛选环节是为了帮助您获取最为合适您身体状态的高血压药。
So, to benefit you to the most, please seek for professional aids and advises from your lisenced healthcare providers, instead of doing your own decisions without involving thorough clinical inspections. 

为了迈向您更好的健康之道，与其决定您自己的药物，请放心的转让专业的医护人员以巩固的医学知识为您的健康建一份力。