Question by Iny I: Does your normal blood pressure change after a heart attack?
After you have a heart attack does ur blood pressure go back to normal? Or does it stay really high? I know during a heart attack ur blood pressure goes up, but does it stay that way a few days after a heart attack?
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Answer by Jennifer K
It may stay up or not. After a heart attack event has occured, they would normally monitor you blood pressure very carefully on a constant basis. If it is high, medicines for hypertension would be given to correct it. A lot of times hypertension is what causes a heart attack in the first place.
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A person’s blood pressure following a heart attack may be initially high because they are having severe pain. Remember a part of the heart muscle has been destroyed but the goal is to control the BP quickly with the medications .. Some patients present with low blood pressure which will also require treatment. Following a heart attack it is very important that a patients blood pressure and heart rate is brought under control with medications as the goal is to control the size of the heart attack from the very moment the patient presents into the emergency department, then to prevent another one from reoccurring.
I don’t think you can rely on blood pressure to diagnose a heart attack. When I went in on a massive, my blood pressure was normal but my pulse was racing. Cholesterol was 110. Go figure.