I agree with what you have said about stress can cause high BP and to try different BP meds.  Stress has been ruled out as the problem.  I have low potassium (not coming back up after taking potassium supplements even).  I wish I was raising the two little darlings, one of them died June 1999 during the course of an adrenal crisis.  It was after her death that the BP began going really high like this (that doctor said it was my taking OTC sinus meds and/or drinking about 2 cups of caffeinated coffee before visits), I saw a general doc in being on an antidepressant for several months after her death.  I'm not sure about how high BP was at the 6 week checkup, because the nurse never would tell me what the reading was (immediately in the room, nurse took BP, said it was high, lay down on my left side, she would take the twins away so I could rest a little and because they "needed" to have their diapers changed), 5-7 minutes later she brought the girls back saying their diapers got changed.   This was the birth hospital, was my BP really that high, or did the nurses know about the girls' severe virilization and just want to see things for themselves (several nurses were in on this, not just one).  During the nearly 4 years until Erica's death, BP was barely high when took OTC sinus meds.  The doctor I'm seeing now has been running tests to check things, and the blood tests state can't take certain types of meds for 2-3 weeks before a test.  He wants to change the BP med to something stronger, but can't yet pending some more tests.   I'm going to get BP records for as far back as I can and see if a trend shows.  I just wonder if maybe handling the meds could have caused something, or Erica's death could have done something.  If it were from just getting older, the potassium should not be low like this.