Thanks for all the feedback.

Here's what happened. I walked into her office and said, "I'm supposed to have day surgery but I just found out my BP is high, is this going to get in the way of my surgery?" She confirmed that my BP was high and handed me the pills.

That did bother me a little bit so I emailed my MIL's cardiologist (who is so super, he gave us his email address to stay in touch between visits) and told him what was going on. His response was that A) my doc's choice of treatment was well within the bounds of normal/acceptable, though B) if he'd been going to give me samples, he would have given me different ones because the ones she gave me are expensive to keep up, and if I ended up staying on them to check with him and he'd advise a better/less expensive drug, and C), if it were up to him, he'd advise diet and exercise for three months before going on meds at all.

All of which gave me pause.

So I stopped the meds (after only taking one of them) and called my gynecologist's office to let her know what was going on, and she said that she needed my BP under control to do the schedules procedure/surgery, but once we got past that she agreed that I should go the diet/exercise route. Like I said, it turns out she's even a cyclist, so that's really cool.

So I went into the family doc's office today to tell her I only have one pill left, that I want to stop taking them and do diet/exercise instead, and how is the best way to do that? She told me to cut back to 1/2 a pill for the next month, record my BP and send it to her, and by the end of a month I should be ready to stop the meds all together.

So, all is fine.

However, I will admit that she seemed surprised that I wanted to stop the meds and asked if they were bothering me. She was fine with me wanting to do diet/exercise, but never once brought that up on her own.

So I'm really glad I had the cardio to email or I might not have questioned any of this at all.

Thanks for all the feedback.