Primary Aldosterone or Low Renin High BP
I've had super salt sensitive BP for decades (age 60's now). Normally 1500mg is considered low sodium diet. 1000mg is very low diet. For me, daily 1000mg will put me at 160+ systolic despite taking metoprolol 100mg, losartan 100mg, hczt 25mg. On other hand, if I limit myself to 300mg or less daily, subsistence level, my bp is 118/60. I read about primary aldosterone bp and tested myself with Aldosterone to Renin Ratio test while heavily salt loading for three days 3500-3500-7000mg sodium while staying on my bp drugs. The result was aldosterone 8.5 and Renin <.167 undetectable, ratio >50. This looks like positive test, even with interference from bp meds. Going to take 6 months plus to get doc appt. Anybody else been through testing for this. Did you see big improvement when switched to the right type of drugs for this type of hypertension? What further testing did doc do?