jalady asked:
The last time my blood pressure was this high was when I was expecting my twins 35 years ago.
The last time my blood pressure was this high was when I was expecting my twins 35 years ago.
For anyone in the medical field, or who may know what I am talking about I had three TIA’s in one day way back in 2000, but I was taken to the hospital right away..
Don’t some medications raise your blood pressure?
I’m trying to stay away from meds, so I’m doing the garlic thing, walking etc.
…and saying alot of whatever’s.
some meds can raise your blood pressure, pregnancy can cause a spike in blood pressure, and clogged arteries/high cholosterol causes high blood pressure as well as some other forms of heart and artery diseases.
Stress, some medications, obesisty, lack of exercise, poor diet, older age, and genetics can all cause hypertension.
Salty food can cause high blood pressure. Choronic stress/anxiety will cause it.
Family history with high blood pressure can trigger it also. That’s why it’s very important to reduce stress and watch what you eat.
High bloodpressure (or its medical term hypErtension) has many causes.
- Sympathetic reactions “fight or flight” of the body and hormones cause vasoconstriction (constriction of the blood vessels and re-direction of the blood from ‘unessential’ areas such as the digestive system, to the muscles and the lungs (for higher oxygen absorbtion).
- constriction of the vessels can be also caused by obesity (due to the increased mass of tissue), plaque (obstruction such as high cholesterol etc.)
- also due to the increase in vessels the heart has to pump harder to reach every part of the body.
- fluid retention due to high sodium intake (volume increase)
…just to name a few
Since you had three transient ishemic attacks I’d guess that your problem might be cholesterol or arthereoclorosis (?), if you can control these, you may not need to be on bloodpressure medication,
Hypertension (as diabetes delitus – type II or late onset) is almost always reservable…
The main cause of hypertension is actually primary or essential hypertension – there is no cause or explanation for the high blood pressure. Secondary hypertension can come from something else in the body causing the raise in blood pressure but generally you just need to have it treated or monitored but exercise and reducing salt intake will have the biggest effect on BP reduction.
Hypertension (HTN) is just one of the risk factors for TIAs. Your HTN is probably caused by something else and if it is as “high” as you purport, the chances of your garlic-thing, walking, and whatever’s are probably not going to help. HTN is nothing to mess with. The longer you allow your heart to continue pumping at that high rate of stress, you are stripping years off your life. The heart is a muscle and as it continues to pump under duress, sooner or later, it is going to give out. With untreated hypertension, it will give out much sooner than you may hope causing irreparable damage to your heart and blood vessels and/or death. Avoiding drugs in acute and chronic HTN when the OTC remedies and lifestyle changes have not worked, is like attaching yourself to a ticking time bomb. Please see your personal physician this next week and discuss this with him/her. Good luck to you.