high blood pressure and a young one - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

swedavid · 07-03-2007, 01:32 AM

Hello!
I have looked around on this forum and found it really good, but I haven't found anything that concerns my task, so I thought I could give it a try here.

About 4 months ago I started to get very tired in the days, but since I had felt this earlier times in my life I didn't give it a second thought, I just hoped it would go away, like it had done three or four times before. But this time it didn't. About 2 months ago I began having headache so I went to some doctors and they found out that I got a blood pressure between 150/ 90 - 175/95. They did some tests, including EKG, ordinary bloodsamples, and last time I collected urine for four days to detect differences at hormones, but everything turned out to be normal.
Lately I have began feeling weak and sometimes dizzy and the headache just grows heavier so I wonder if anyone of you has any good advice what to do?
I am 22 years old and are not overweight, 180 cm and weight is 70 Kg, eat well, at least I think so, and don't have any particular stressy days.

I know there are a lot of questions like mine, but I hope you consider to give an answer, if you know anything that can possibly help!

Thank you!
David

Lenin · 07-03-2007, 06:05 AM

David,

Buy a BP tester at a drugstore and test yourself regularly at home, relaxed, sitting comfortably with the cuff at heart level, once or twice a day.
A month of readings should yield an average that you can make a judgement with.

Your BP isn't high enough to be causing the headaches, BUT whatever is causing the headaches can be causing the BP rise.

It's good that they searched for the Secondary causes with that urine and blood testing.

Once you get that at-home number, you will have a better handle on what to do.

bethsheba · 07-03-2007, 05:00 PM

David,

Often when a person as young as yourself experiences high blood pressure it is a result of secondary hypertension...that is hypertension that has an underlying, identifiable cause (often curable). Although your physicians may be testing for secondary causes, I would suggest you find out exactly what they are testing for, what tests they are doing, and what things can impact (falsify or negate) those test results. I say this because many people take a passive approach to their health care and ASSUME the physician is looking for everything---but there is at least one conditon that physicians often overlook because it used to be it was thought to be rare... now they think that between 5-20 percent of people with blood pressure have this condition. The symptoms include high blood pressure, headache, fatigue, muscle weakness, intermittent paralysis, and numbness and tingling---

So don't assume your physicians are testing for everything...get the details...and do lots of reading because knowledge will protect you and it will guide you to better health.

Take care and good health to you.

Bsheba