As a fellow sufferer of High BP and heart arrhythmia can I make a suggestion? Find a cardiologist that has some experience with sports medicine or who has some experience with a patient population that has or wants an active lifestyle. Many of these doctors have practices whose patients are elderly and live a seditenary life style. Ever try doing any sort of long distance cycling on a beta blocker? No fun. There are some new alternative meds that are great for BP and don't have same side effects that beta blockers and some of the other BP meds have. One that comes to mind is Diovan. And like others have said get another primary care doctor sounds like yours has succumbed to the demands of HMO management. By the way I also take HCT and it does a good job and it is definitely cheap.
VonAlt