No. There are NICE recommendations, and then if you don't do well on that on to the next option and so on.
Exavtly., the first choice is the one that is cheap does the job and may well have the most side effects.
And if you are taking ten (different ones) a day?
yes, chemotherapy stuff is not cheap
Oh I know that there's a script to follow
but it has lots of options and it's still essentially random
why would I want to do that?
one's bad enough
I meant just the set of BP meds
To stay alive?
Indeed.
BP meds "saving you life" isn't an absolute.
It's a statistical thing.
and the law of diminishing returns kicks in
the minimal benefit of the 3rd, 4th ... 10th is never likely to be worth the additional cost of side effects.
At a given point a month ago it was an absolute for me
Wait till it happens to you
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