Is 140 over 80 bad for blood pressure

Is 140 over 80 bad for blood pressure

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What can I expect at my first visit to a high risk doctor for high blood pressure during pregnancy?

Q: I am currently 31 weeks pregnant with my first. At my routine appointment today my blood pressure was 140/90 which is high but usually it runs 170/80 which is very high. My blood pressure is always high at the office when they take it but i also have it checked by my mother who is a nurse every other day and it usually runs in the 130’s over 70’s. I am always nervous going to the doctor for checkups and I have no idea why. Anyway, my obgyn referred me to a high risk doctor and I was wondering what I can expect to happen at this visit. What are the treatment options and what are the odds that I will have to be hospitalized for the remainder of my pregnant or even deliver at 31 weeks? I am scared to death which i know only makes this worse as well but any serious answers would be greatly appreciated. Also there is no protein in my urine and i do not have gestational diabetes. I only get short of breath sometimes, other than that I feel fine. Thank you all in advance again.

A: It will likely be the same as your other appointments. They may choose to put you on a medication like aldomet to keep your pressures lower. If your pressure cannot be controlled you might need to be hospitalized and put on stronger medications, like magnesium sulfate. If THAT didn’t work, or if your baby is showing signs of distress or has restricted growth, then induction might be considered at some point.

Could I have a blood clot in my lungs?(Pulmonary embolism) Please answer I am so stressed.?

Q: When ever I lay down on my stomach or chest for a while playing on my computer then stand up I feel tightness near my sternum. I then throw my arms back and my head back and stretch my chest back and I can crack it and it feels a little better. Also If I stoop over(hunch my back forward) and then straighten back up I feel the same tightness. Also If I stoop over and tighten the muscles in my chest I feel a pain there. Sometimes when I cough I can feel the pain there also. And once in a while if i breath deep i can also feel it.It has been like this for about almost two weeks. Its gotten a little better and some days its worse.I read up on Pulmonary embolism because I am a hypochondriac and it said it hurts more when you stoop over, breath, and cough. Im very scared it has to do with a blood clot or a heart attack or something serious because whenever I go check my blood pressure at the machine at the store it says its high (155-130/100-84) I take it multiple times and it decreases normally the first one is the highest. PLEASE NOTE i have major anxiety and I think that was causing the blood pressure. I went to a doctor and he said it was 120/80 and I was like thats strange. I went back to a different store and it was high again. I waited a couple days and Noticed that I was having blood in my nose when ever I blew it or stuck a tissue up into it. It never actually bleed out but whenever I blow my nose there is some blood in the boogers. Thinking this is because of high blood pressure I went back to the same doctor and It turned out to be 140/100(the nurse took it) I started freaking out. They did an EKG and said everything looked fine except I had sinus Tachcardia which they said was because I was very nervous. By the time I left my blood pressure was down to 136/88(the doctor took it a couple times) one after another waiting about 2 mins in between. Was that enough time for another accurate reading or were my blood vessels constricted and blood pushed away causing a lower reading? Is that whats happening at the store machine when it drops lower?NOW THIS WAS A WALK IN CLINIC SO I DO NOT KNOW HOW GOOD THEY AREI am 19 years old I weigh 184-192 and I am 5″11 or 6″I have started eating healthier and I see a psychiatrist.Now back to the point does this seem like it could be something serious or just muscle pain(note: I have bad posture I hunch over on my computer allot). And do you think the nose bleed is from high blood pressure or sometime else. I have seasonal allergies and I used afrin(which you are supposed to use not more than 3-5 days in a row) for about a year and a half almost everyday(which could have messed up the lining in my nose) My nose has been like this for almost a month. When I use saline spray It starts to have more blood when I stick a tissue up there( maybe b/c the spray is dissolving the blood clot)I am very very nevous and stressed out and I have had a chain reaction of stressful events from being shot at, Roommate passed away car crash, dog ran away(just got a call that she is found :-D), college home sickness, and family issues.Thank you in advance for taking your time to read this long question and I really appreciate you answering this. It really means allot to me.(dont just say go to a doctor I have been to 14 different doctor/clinics in the past 19 weeks for random things I thought was wrong with me most turned out nothing was wrong and I think now that this my be the cause of my symptoms,and my parents are getting sick of paying)

A: Anxiety will make you think you have every disease in the book. If you had an embolism, you would not be here to be asking.The pain is probably like you said from hunching over. Try sitting with better posture for a few days or ”catch” yourself slouching.Its sucks to be a hypochondriac. That is worse than a disease itself sometimes. I think that you went through alot of different things and your stress level is high. Find things that help you to relax. Also, take it from experience, don’t look up every little ache an pain on the internet even though you really want to because you will think you have 100 diseases that don’t even exist in you.

why is my blood pressure higher when I am lying down?

Q: I have been having some problems sleeping lately, I am hypertensive and also have chest pains. Recently i started noticing that when i lie down to sleep at night i feel my heart beating irregularly and it makes it difficult for me to sleep, i then have to take some valium b4 i can sleep or have slow sex (without exerting myself so much) before i can sleep. yesernight i decided to measure my bp b4 going to bed it was 125/76, pulse 56. I measured it again while lying down and it was 140/80 pulse 54. i was surprised, so i sat up, went over to my table and measured it and i got 123/75 when i went back to bed it was 139/81. i then concluded that my bp seems to go up when i lie down which doesn;t seem right to me, is that y i have been having irregular heart beats and angina pains when i try to sleep lately. I am currently taking atenolol 100mg once a day, norvasc, captopril and aspirin but it seems these drugs no longer help especially with this irregular heart beat, altho they seem to have succeeded in lowering my bp and stabilizing me cos my bp behaves erratically, rises without warning, in such cases i quickly take take isordil (nitrate to bring it down quickly) but the above mentioned drugs seems to have stabilized my bp so i hardly take the nitrates. this new episode of palpitations and arrythmia (if that is what it is) that started 5 days ago when i bought a new pack of norvasc. its usually noticable when i lie down. I am thinking of stopping the norvasc bcos it coincides with the day the irregular heart beat started, fake norvasc are very common here in Nigeria and the last time i had these irregular heartbeats it stopped when i stopped taking the new norvasc pack that i bought then. I am suspecting the norvasc cos the previous pack i had was not giving me any problem, this prob started with this new pack or i’m i getting it all wrong, is my condition getting worse, i want to know what u guys think b4 i go to my cardiologist. yesternight i switched to atenolol 50mg twice a day to c if it can control the irregular beat at night, i don’t like taking the atenolol cos i used to be ashmatic (then i was a heavy smoker). now i have stopped smoking and the ashtma seems to have gone with it. but one day after having intense sex with my wife i started having difficulty breathing, in less than 3 mins i could hardly breath at all, i managed to grab my old ventolin inhaler was lucky to find something inside, i inhaled deeply twice and within a few mins felt some relief, but that sudden ashtma attack really scared me cos i wonder what would have happened if i didn’t have that ventolin inhaler at home, now i carry it about with me, i told my doctor and he said i shud stop the atenolol, last 2 months i complained of chest pains and he said i shud start taking the atenolol again…anyway i want u guys to evaluate my case and advice me b4 i c my doctor, if there are better drugs out there i wnat to know them so i can suggest it to him, also i will like hints on how to get authentic norvasc cos my system doesn’t take kindly with the fake ones (or maybe they are not fake as one pharmacist suggested that my reactions my just be psychological). I am 34 yrs old, slightly over weight, not very active, wanted to restart my exercise routing but i have to be careful not to over stress my heart, my doctor suggested walking quickly will do for now until i get the hang of it…he also suggested i shud cross over to UK and have a proper heart test done, medical facilities are limited here in nigeria, i have done a heart echo and ecg with chest xray, the echo showed i had LVH as at then which has resolved and slightly thickened endo which my doctor said is quite normal with hypertensive patients but i have discovered that i can’t do some things i used to do b4, like vigorous sex cos of my heart, if i try it i usually end up panting and maybe suffer some irregular heart beats.. give me all the possible advice u can b4 i go and c him, and do u guys really think i shud spend my life saviings on a trip to the UK to have my heart properly checked out or is everything under control…my major prob is my bp rising suddenly without warning, if i don’t notice it in time and take adequate measure maybe a cardiovascular incident may occur…what shud i do?

A: Higher when lying down, question. Due to the type of pump that the heart is, it is very sensitive to the volume of inlet supply, so lying down increases that volume.The other part of your question, about using nitrates to control blood pressure. I don’t believe that is a common practice in the States. Suggest you see a kidney specialist to control your BP.