[Daily living with hypertension: changes, restrictions and reactions]

Aiming to describe daily living of hypertensive people after Arterial Hypertension (AH) diagnoses and to identify changes in their lives. The method of inquiry used was descriptive and qualitative using discursive method to figure out theme factors. The results showed different behaviors/reactions of being sick according to their daily living after discovering AH, that not always happened at the same time that the antihypertensive treatment began. Those differences seems to be associated with individual understanding of sickness itself and of impact in their lives. So, getting along with hypertension is to learn about the sickness and symptoms and also make the necessary changes.