Can your blood pressure still be high if?!
Question: Can your blood pressure still be high if!?
I am 19 weeks pregnant and had a great first trimester except my doctor told me to keep an eye on my bloodpressure!. So far it has always been in optimal range under 120 under 80!. But lately I have been feeling ill and have many of the symptoms of high blood pressure!. I went to the walk in clinic and they took my blood pressure and it was in the mid-normal range but higher than my normal pressure range!. The symptoms I have had were brushed off as simply being pregnant and stress!. Put it this way I cannot sit down and fold a basket of laundry without getting a headache, feeling dizzy, and needing a nap!. Now what I am wondering is if you can have high blood pressure without it being super high!. isnt everyone different and what is high for one person may not be high for the next!? I have a regular doctors appointment in 4 days and will bring it up then and have a feeling my regular doctor will not brush me off but until then am I right!. Could this be high blood pressure!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Blood pressure is considered "high" for someone if the top number, the systolic pressure, is 30 mm of mercury higher than normal, or if the bottom number, the diastolic pressure, is 15 mm of mercury higher than normal!. so, if your normal Bp is 110/70, then 140/85 is to high for you!. The reason why your MD wants you to watch your BP is becasue of PIH- Pregnancy induced hypertension, or preeclampsia!. alot of older people still call it toxemia!. It happens usually in the last trimester, and your at risk if your young, overweight and this is your first pregnancy!. If you have headaches in the front of your forehead, are swelling alot or having alot of vomiting after the time that morning sickness should have stopped, I would call your MD!. They can do a simple urine test, to see if protein is spilling into your urine to sdee if you are devoloping PIH as well as monitoring your BP!. Keep your feet up if they start to swell and don't overdo things if you are at risk of devoloping PIH- it can hit fast and if it does the only cure is delivery of your baby!. If your having any symptoms, call your MD right away!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
it is normal for women to have higher than usual blood pressures when they are pregnant!. As long as they are not out of what is considered the "normal" range, then you have little to worry about!. As for your symptoms, those don't surprise me either!.!.!. you probably try to accomplish too much, and those symptoms sound like fatigue more than anything else!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
it looks from here like it is probably stress!. high bp most
often doesn't have symptoms!. by all means discuss
your concerns with your doctor!. if your concerns are
brushed off, insist on a dialog or get another doctor!.
you are paying for care and deserve to get it!.
congratulations and good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
often doesn't have symptoms!. by all means discuss
your concerns with your doctor!. if your concerns are
brushed off, insist on a dialog or get another doctor!.
you are paying for care and deserve to get it!.
congratulations and good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Hormonal changes, water retention and extra weight will raise blood pressure during pregnancy!. It should return to normal after you give birth!.
Usually high blood pressure has NO symptoms!. Hence, they call it the silent killer!. And dangerously high blood pressure is a lot higher than the numbers you have mentioned here!.
Blood pressure is a measure of how hard your blood pushes against the walls of your arteries!. If the force is too hard, you have high blood pressure (also called hypertension)!. When high blood pressure starts after 20 weeks of pregnancy, it may be a sign of a very serious problem called preeclampsia!.
Blood pressure is shown as two numbers!. The top number (systolic) is the pressure when the heart pumps blood!. The bottom number (diastolic) is the pressure when the heart relaxes and fills with blood!. Blood pressure is high if the top number is more than 140 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), or if the bottom number is more than 90 mm Hg!. For example, blood pressure of 150/85 (say "150 over 85") or 140/95 is high!. Or both numbers can be high, such as 150/95!.
If you have high blood pressure during pregnancy, you need to have checkups more often than women who do not have this problem!. There is no way to know if you will get preeclampsia!. This is one of the reasons that you are watched closely during your pregnancy!.
High blood pressure and preeclampsia are related, but they have some differences!.
High blood pressure
Normally, a woman
Usually high blood pressure has NO symptoms!. Hence, they call it the silent killer!. And dangerously high blood pressure is a lot higher than the numbers you have mentioned here!.
Blood pressure is a measure of how hard your blood pushes against the walls of your arteries!. If the force is too hard, you have high blood pressure (also called hypertension)!. When high blood pressure starts after 20 weeks of pregnancy, it may be a sign of a very serious problem called preeclampsia!.
Blood pressure is shown as two numbers!. The top number (systolic) is the pressure when the heart pumps blood!. The bottom number (diastolic) is the pressure when the heart relaxes and fills with blood!. Blood pressure is high if the top number is more than 140 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), or if the bottom number is more than 90 mm Hg!. For example, blood pressure of 150/85 (say "150 over 85") or 140/95 is high!. Or both numbers can be high, such as 150/95!.
If you have high blood pressure during pregnancy, you need to have checkups more often than women who do not have this problem!. There is no way to know if you will get preeclampsia!. This is one of the reasons that you are watched closely during your pregnancy!.
High blood pressure and preeclampsia are related, but they have some differences!.
High blood pressure
Normally, a woman
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