It's not too difficult to get a medical if you are taking blood pressure
medication. You mainly have to show that your blood pressure is under
control and your system is tolerating the drug well. The extra tests do
drive the cost up though,

Most of the FAA's prohibited BP medicines bring a smile to the face of
the family doctor, who says that nobody ever prescribes them any more.

I take Diovan and the one with the long name, HCTZ I think it is
(cheap! wow! $1.85 for 90 days!). I used to take Cardura along with
the Diovan. I required no tests, only a statement from my doctor with
a list of periodic BP readings (which I took at home and gave to him)
and a list of my prescriptions. The simpler this stuff is, the better.

I had a lengthy delay before the certificate came through, four months
I think. But my following two flight physicals were completed in the
flight surgeon's office.

Actually, the FAA now seems more interested in my exercise-induced
asthma than in my blood pressure. At next physical I am to submit a
"narrative" from my doctor on this subject.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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