22 Years Old, Active Duty Soldier, Hypertension questions... - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

Stebee83 · 06-26-2006, 04:28 PM

The reason I am posting is to try find alternate ideas of what I can do about my blood pressure. A little history about me includes, for the last 4 years, I have been active army. I am 6'1", 170lbs, I am used to running marathons and in good physical shape. I eat rather well to avoid getting out of shape.

Last October I was diagnosed with Hypertension Stage II. My reading at the time was 210/110 - 190/100. These days I am on medication, and my average ranges from 150/90 to 180/105. I have a moniter at home, and I check it frequently. According to the docters, I am ppart of the very small population that just can't be explained. They did numerous checks on me for the last 6 months, checking my kidneys, heart, valves, blood, sugar levels, and a lot more.

I have been stationed in Korea for 3 years now, and according to my medical file, my blood pressure really rose about 2 years ago, but the doctors never did anything about it at the time. My family doesn't have a history of high blood pressure.

I went on leave back to the states last December, and seen a civilian doctor to get his opinion. He wanted to run some tests, but I simply wasn't home long enough, he mentioned on of the readings on the tests the military preformed was very odd. I asked my doctor when I got back to Korea, but he said it was normal.

Right now I am on Hydrocholorothiaxide, and Ramiphril, and have been for awhile now, right away my blood pressure when down to 140/90's, but then slowy rose, like I was gettting used to the medicine and such.

My question is mostly if there is any alternate solutions I might be able to look into to find the underlying cause to this. If you need any more information let me know. The army will not let me do much physical activity, but I stay in shape. Is it possible to not have a cause? I don't know if I am getting the run around. I have been to many doctors and hospitals here.

sosome · 06-26-2006, 05:16 PM

Try kimchi and rice diet for 3 months. If there is a single-food defence to heart
ailments, kimchi has to be it!

l_reyna_1 · 06-26-2006, 05:26 PM

EVEN WHEN YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE WENT DOWN TO 140/90'S THAT IS STILL HBP...SO IT WAS NEVER PERFECTLY UNDER CONTROL.........TRY SWITCHING MEDS AS FOR THE CAUSE.....WELL,THE MAIN CAUSE OF HBP IS TO THIS DAY UNKNOWN.......DO U HAVE HIGH CHOLESTEROL???? SOMETIMES THAT CAUSES HBP....

2muchdrugs28 · 06-26-2006, 05:36 PM

Stebee83,

In roughly 90% of the hypertension cases, doctors do not find an underlying condition that is responsible for causing the high blood pressure. The remaining 10% of people with high blood pressure have secondary hypertension, meaning there is a root cause for their high blood pressure.

When someone like you develops high blood pressure at a young age and does not have a family history of high blood pressure, the doctor should run tests to make sure that you don't have secondary hypertension.

It sounds like your doctors have already done a lot of tests so I think the best thing to do is to find another doctor, preferably a hypertension specialist like a nephrologist or cardiologist. Ask the specialist about getting imaging tests done like a magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA). Also, check your blood pressure in both arms. The difference between arms should not be more than 10 mm Hg.

Good luck,

FrontierDriver2 · 06-26-2006, 07:31 PM

You definetly need more tests done ASAP, especially for kidney problems. Do you smoke or anything like that?