Exactly this.
I saw a piece on TV - perhaps the late Dr Mosely - testing the results of taking b/p medication in the morning or at bed-time.
Results showed that taking them at bed-time gave a significant improvement in performance.
I wheeled out my b/p gizmo, which I had A/B’d with my GP’s device - agreed, spot on - and noted a week’s b/p with morning intake and a week taking at night. Night gave better results.
Ran up a chart on Excel, presented them to my Dr … “Wow!” quoth he. And I’ve been taking them at night ever since.
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Interesting. I asked my doc about it and was told it didn’t matter. 
ETA: University College Hospital’s randomised controlled trial reckons it makes no difference as well:
Maybe it depends on who’se popping the pills. P’raps people process these things differently. My own test showed night time was more effective.
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It also depends which pills you are taking, according to the cardio I saw at Poitiers CHU.
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One of the medicaments I am taking is twice a day, morning and evening, so if I lumped them all to the morning, when I easily remember, I would be getting at least one double dose, which I have been strictly told on here not to do.
While typing this I have paused to move the pillory (not correct but almost appropriate) to a more prominent position on the worktop, in other words to a place from which it will have to be moved in order to prepare the Boss’ bowl at 18h. I reckon that qualifies near enough to soir to be correct. In other words, the dog doesn’t get fed if I don’t take my pills and, as he never lets 6pm go by without reminding me, I think I have hit upon the best method of remembering. I did mention it would be the dog training me earlier, didn’t I? 
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No, no, no. Drugs wear off differently. Paracetamol for example lasts about 6 hours, but taking a double dose doesn’t mean it will last 12 hours. Instead that amount in one go puts extra stress on liver and kidneys that are processing the drug molecule - and will still only be effective for about the same amount of time.
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That makes sense.
Indeed. In the bed next to my mum’s [heart attack #?] was a teenage girl who had tried to kill herself with Paracetamol. All was jolly, with her family there, celebrating her survival.
My mum, 35 years a nurse, inc A & E, op theatre and running a family clinic for The Army, was less optimistic.
“Will have destroyed her liver. They usually succumb”
I knew there would be a dog in there somewhere
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Jules Rules. 
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Indeed.
Worked last night. 
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How can you tell from Dr. Lib how long the medic has been qualified?
My BP experience was when the MT’s intern said it was 251 over 170.! After beating the machine and taking it twice prescribed heart tablets [ which had been banned in USA with a court case for causing suspected cancers in over 1000 people].I didn’t go back.
Given that the convention in France would be to report 25 over 17, that would be very odd.
You should be able to click through on doctor’s name to get their CV
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What units are these?
Our M.T does it in mmHg like in the U.K
Me too. Then I realised there wasn’t really a lot of ‘rest of life’ left. 
Clouds and silver linings, eh?
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Apparently, most ‘heart episodes’ happen in the morning. My bro-in-law could testify to that if he were still with us. So taking meds at night means they are are working at their peak. I take mine at bedtime.
My heart beat at night is around 49 bpm whereas on waking and getting out of bed it rapidly increases to about 120-130 bpm, wonder if that has anything to do with it.
I don’t know. 120 sounds very high to me. Mine is in the high 50s around 8am then creeps up into the 60s. I presume you keep a record and let the doctor know.