Yes you have high blood pressure. Mine runs at times 138/95 and the Dr. Put me on bp meds at 138/100 or higher. That your top # is in the 170s may be the concern here, though it isn't as bad a a high bottom # (such as mine). As far as the red face goes, the main concern is going to be hemmoroids caused by straining more than a symptom of high bp. You really need to get a lot more fiber in your diet. Try citricel (brand name) (it's orange flavored and watery-not gritty). It helps me alot when I need to use it - a few days every year or two.

Actually,saying I go red in the face taking a dump is just me excercising some aussie humour.....Although I am deadly serious about being around 170/180 on the top and 100/90ish on the bottom...Occasionaly I get massive headaches and had a cat scan but it came up showing no abnormalities...Does anyone else get headaches and are they related to high b.P?

I get headaches all the time. And because i'm on meds the doc told me there is not much I can take for migraines---- i'm 21 and have been on meds since 16- usually 170/98-105--- it has been way up there, ive had many tests done and no sign of anything-- why do I have high blood pressure??

:oops: my blood pressure is high I get a headhead on oosactions but I also have trouble breathing and cant walk a distires because I cant brealth I aslo have no enegry and and my legs hurt alot I take hazzard and that seems to control it so they say high preeure is dangous my face gets red and I sweat alot too :x

I used to have a slightly high blood pressure and I tried hydrotheraphy, and managed to bring my blood pressure down to the normal levels.

I'm pregnant with my fourth child my bp today was 142/90. The doctors put me on bp meds last month, and two weeks ago they changed it from twice a day to three times a day. But today the changed my meds to aldomet 500 mg. Is anyone taking the same meds? Also do you have headaches and neck pains?

Trina_251

I have high blood pressure that they have a hard time treating, and I get headaches constantly, so , yes, I think headaches are related, I believe I heard they are related to the bottom number though.
I am 28, I have been on meds since I was 22, with bp in the 140's/90's range, they never get it much farther down than high 130's over/80's, even on 3 meds! Then a few days ago, I ended up in the emergency room having pvc's ( premature contractions of your heart--feels like thunking or skipping), my blood pressure ( on meds) was 175/108. They said my potassium was low wich caused the pvc wich caused my body stress wich jumped my blood pressure up. I have been researching potassium levels, and I found out it being too low ( or too high) can kill you! Also something about it possibly being related to a adrenal gland problem. This has me worried because since 1997, I have been getting what doctors keep calling anxiety attacks, where for no reason my body feels like it was thrown into "fight or flight" mode. You know the feeling when you are driving and almost hit someone and that "wave" of adrenaline rushes through? I get that all the time for no reason. No one has bothered to try fixing it, just call it anxiety. But I have heard in passing of disorders that can cause this. If anyone has any info, or if it can be related to low potasium levels, along with the high blood pressure, I would appreciate the info. I am trying to come up with a way to convince my doctor he needs to do a bit more than "watch and see" with me. The trip to the er was very scary, and I dont want to do that again, or worse! I have constant headaches and dizziness, also that the doctor has told me to live with, its anxiety. But I am not anxious. I have a good life, I am happy, I dont get stressed normally when these attacks occur, I only feel stresed when I end up in the hospital!!!

I think the flushing is from the pvc, and I believe they can be cause from hbp. My son ended in the hospital 3 different times, pvc symptoms then all goes away. Heart dr found nothing when testing, except right when he is having the flushing, hbp, and pvc. Then they say anxiety meds.-- well the anxiety comes from the feelings of thumping, missed beats and heart going too fast then suddenly going slow again, the flushing feelings etc, etc....

He had to quit smoking pot, it was raising his bp too much and causing these, no caffeine, no diet pills, no speed of any kind. Now, completely normal. His bp has been high since 16 years old, but they never gave him meds for it. He is now 20.

Now the headaches--i had migraines for 8 years, every week or 2, for 8 years. Usually last 3 days in a row.(no lights, no sound, laying in bed) they finally gave me a migraine med that was a miracle drug and they would stop the migraine before it would start--you know when the spots come before your eyes--take meds and no migraine. But for years I knew it was my bp. I would sweat like a boy, but they never found high bp when I would go to the Dr. 140/95 or so. But when they finally diagnosed hbp it was 168/105. And then they put me on meds, have not had a migraine since then. Come to find out I am one of those pple who started out with low bp--105/65--even as low as 95/60. So when I was 140/95 I was already high for me. And extremely high.

Then finally had a heart attack that made me be on 2 different bp pills and low and behold my bp returned to normal 105/65.

But another strange thing--when my spinal cord was damaged from my spinal condition my blood pressure returned to very low, do not sweat anylonger, and I have trouble keeping my body temperature up. My pressure was 90/45 freaked me out--but many of the old symptoms went away--even when they find my pressures high now. No sweating, ever, no headaches, ever, cant keep myself warm. I was so accustomed to the sweating--now I feel cold without it. I am cold without it. Strange huh??

For the record, since I have worked in the medical feild- 140/95 is high blood pressure. Anything over 130/70 is considered prehypertension. Docotrs normally want it in the 120/60 or 70ish range to be "normal"
they let you go too long if they wernt treating you at all at 145/95.

Well they didnt treat it although I was also complaining of the migraines at the time, like I said for me--especially high.

You have all sorts of problems...Odd that you still have no proof of that abdominal baby...Especially with high blood pressure, you should be under constant care I would think in a situation like that. Most doctors have to keep very close watch on a normal pregnancy with hypertension.

Anyone on HBP medications or who has HBP should have blood work done that measures their magnesium, calcium and potassium levels.

Some blood pressure medications, especially diuretics, can deplete the potassium and magnesium levels...and this can lead to abnormal heart beats...and a feeling of nervousness and anxiety...

I take a diuretic and take 500 Mg of magnesium and the same for potassium as well as 1500 mg of calcium with D daily. So far, so good. My last blood work results had all levels normal, though the potassium was at the lower end of the normal range...

If you're on HBP medication or if you have HBP, get your levels checked..who knows, maybe your high blood pressure is caused by low magnesium or potassium levels..it's not uncommon...

Hey trina,

I was put on aldomet 250mg twice a day when I was pregnant with my first baby last year. For the first few months I was asked to take twice per day, means 500mg a day. But once I went into my 2nd trim my bp lowered to as normal as 120/80 almost everytime I go for my bi-weekly visit to the gynae and this is not normal for me usually cos I am hypertensive and hospitals usually freaks me out. However towards my 8 months preg my bp suddenly shot up to 170/110 and I was admitted immediately.

With regards to headaches.. I did have them and I told the doc to reduce the dose to once a day since my bp has been okay. So yeah, I was on 250mg for the whole of my 2nd trim and a few weeks of my 3rd trim. As for neck aches, I was lucky enuf not to have those.