Sometimes pills are not only the best answer. Sometimes doctors do not need to prescribe medications for common health problems like high blood pressure. Most high blood pressure medications have side effects. You can better be helped by simply adjusting your lifestyle. If you have high blood pressure, you are more than twice as likely to develop heart disease and six times more likely to have a stroke than people with normal blood pressure. You can very well manage your condition through diet instead of swallowing bucket loads of pills.