So, I just got home from spending 5 hours in the ER. WHY? Because my blood pressure is through the roof and it is effecting my asthma, that's why? I started seeing small signs of it over the summer before my surgery and didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until I started my physical therapy that I started to have some real issues with it. This weekend, I have had an on again-off again head ache and today I started feeling light-headed and I have been having issues breathing and finally ended up at the ER having a chest x-ray done and a ct scan on my lungs as well as having my heart and blood pressure monitored. My blood pressure ranged from the 140's to the 170's with the bottom number ranging from the 70's to the 100's. Yeah not good for a 35 year old. Going to call the doctor tomorrow because I had already started the process of getting it checked out and hopefully I might get to go see the doctor sooner than Friday but until then, I got me some new blood pressure meds and a inhaler that I can go get tomorrow. As for now, I am off to take a shower and to go to bed.

Wow. You're going through some serious-feeling stuff.

I am sorry--AND I am really glad you are already on the way to getting everything under control.

I am thinking of you, kativicky.

I hope everything from now on goes smoothly, and just the way you would most appreciate.

Wow, kat! Those are nasty numbers! Mine are in roughly the same neighborhood, but I'm twice your age.

Hope your doctor finds some answers for you, promptly!

Sending hugs and best wishes from High Desert Country (which is scheduled to be rain-soaked - 100% likely, according to our weather guy - tomorrow.)

Hey, kat. I'm so sorry you are going through this mess! Wish I could be at your side to help you through it. When it rains it pours, right! (((((Kat)))))))

I'm sorry that you're feeling unwell, Kativicky. Hopefully the new medication and the inhaler will help. It sounds like the ER took good care of you.

Hope you get feeling better ASAP.

Hang in there.

Hope you're feeling better today.
Those blood pressure numbers are so off for a 35 year-old...do you know what's behind them?
Take it easy and take your meds!

No I don't know why I am dealing with this other than I do have issues with my weight which I know it factoring in to it. Hopefully I can get some relieve from it because I am really showing the signs of it being high all the time.

> I am really showing the signs of it being high all the time >

You too huh?

Mine was high once, and it worried me. Then it wasn't. Wsheww. So, it's not too late (Nip it in the bud. Love them flowers.)! 'Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life' [unknown].
It's about eating healthy, a healthy outlook, overall, and living as stress-free as possible [mentally, physically, financially, socially, etc.]. I'm not a pro. It;s just what I know, or learned, quickly.

High blood pressure runs [and walks] in some families. You can't outrun it. It'll give you the runs. Careful. Take care of yourself, and stay high always, with low blood pressure.

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M@t

Hope you start feeling better, On the positive side those numbers you've written down don't seem to be that high to me...

"140's to the 170's, 70's to the 100's. "

Could it be that your overstressing when getting your numbers taken? The contraptions are very uncomfortable to me and, That's a problem I have so I never get an accurate rating. Mine is always high, (but it isn't).

I've never had high blood pressure, surprisingly. There was one time I had low blood pressure as an undergrad in college. Neither myself nor the doctors knew what that was from. It made me very weak for a time until my strength returned.

Kativicky,

Here's a list of things from the Mayo clinic you can do to help lower your blood pressure without medication.

F.Y.I. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/in-depth/high-blood-pressure/art-20046974



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Hang in there... so we can hang out there, now you hear?
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M@t

Had exactly the same stuff in my mid 30s.

With new meds you will be fine.

I am 61 now.

Hope you're better soon. Try to rest, relax, and breathe.

Fortunately, there are good medications to control blood pressure. Hope they get it under control soon.

Went to the doctor's today. Wasn't suppose to go until Friday but with my little trip to the ER Monday, I had it moved up for this afternoon. We are still working out the kinks with the blood pressure issue but I did find out that I am a little anemic but it will be an easy fix with some vitamins and some more green veggies and a better diet. I go back in a month to see how my blood pressure is doing.

Be sure to eat red meat, raisins, spinach, whole grain cereal, plums, and purple grape juice. I'd suggest liver, but, yuck, it doesn't taste good.

I hope you feel better, mine is totally opposite. like 95/63

You've reminded me of a funny story: A guy wanted to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam war and it was suggested to him that if he consumed some over-the-counter medications and drank a ton of coffee just before his draft physical, he'd be found unsuitable for the military.

So he followed the advice and showed up at his draft physical full of coffee and the recommended pills. But not a word was said and he was declared 1A! And soon after was drafted, went through Basic Training and in due time, in the 'Nam.

...Where he was soon wounded in action.

At the hospital, recuperating from the surgery that had saved his life, he was asked by his attending physician, "Hey son, how the hell did you get into the Army with blood pressure so low!?"

Take care, Kati, there is some great help out there. Glad you are getting what sounds like good care. :)