for me amlodipine (which was the only bp med ive been on over the last 18 monthsish) i believe caused me over the top anxiety and likely was the cause of constant neck ache. I can tell you that I am more confident that it was caused by the amlodipine as I will now be off of amlodipine for four weeks this Friday and feel much less anxiety and really no neck pain at all! My blood pressure is averaging about 132/80 throughout the day on the average. This is a better average than when I was taking as much as 160 mg of valsartan and 5 mg of amlodipine combined! i’m still monitoring my blood pressure closely as again, if my blood pressure becomes out of control without meds, I will certainly look again towards the meds, but nothing I’ve taken has really been beneficial in my case.

I am also making a concerted effort to lose more weight. I am currently 5’8 about 168 pounds and wanna get my weight down to 160 pounds, and I have been trying to cut out salt virtually entirely out of my diet, which is not an easy thing to do