Hi i know what your going through my bp for the last 6 weeks has bounced up and down its been spiking up to 180/108 and my doctors don't seem concerned.

where is Dr. Oz when you need him.

Hi poe and bigi, First off, poe, You need to do something about your blood pressure like RIGHT NOW. I spoke with 3 different doctors and told them that the doctor at my nurse practioner's office thought my high bp numbers were "no big deal" and he said that he sees numbers like that every day. He also said that if he had been the one I saw he would not have even changed my meds. Well the three doctors I talked to about this told me that he was WAY OFF BASE. Numbers like mine and numbers like YOURS require immediate notice and care. It may be one thing if your bp just slowly inched its way up to that high of numbers but for it to bounce up that high and stay there for awhile you are talking stroke city!!!! I am advising you to go to urgent care or even to the emergency room. Did you know that 180/120 is considered "emergency levels" of bp. It is stage II and you can get higher but you might want to have several doctors standing over you with a crash cart nearby. I mean it. You need to go to the ER. Do not delay. It is not something to play around with and you should be glad you did not mention your doctors name because I would have turned him in. He could be responsible for your death if you let him. Please, Please, Please go to the ER!!!!

bigi, I know what you mean about Dr. Oz. Isnt he the nicest doctor ever? My mom just loves him. I dont get to watch him much but I do have some of his books. He is an extraordinary man who is amazingly humble. We need more of him that is for sure!!!

i went to a out of hours clinic with a pain in my neck/head that i couldnt get rid of my bp was 220/114 they just asked me if i had tingling anywhere!!!! and sent me home.
my pulse is around 50 and bp about 130/80 now im also on 320mg beta bloker

Thanks for the advice I'm going to my doc tomorrow morning and I'm going to demand a change in meds cause your right this is crazy. Thanks. Much love.

Hi again first let me give u all my history i was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2001 and i was put on lisinopril / coreg and lasik. And that did well till 2008 at that time i saw a small spike in blood pressure and my cardiac doc the same one i have now added a 10mg norvasc and it seemed to work then about 6 weeks ago it started spiking from my normal of 125/82 to what its doing now can anyone think of what could be going on I'm only 42.thanks. God bless.

Hi poe, I think personally that you should go see another doctor. That is what I did. I thank God that I did because I might not be here today to write this post to you. All of us have purposes in this world and God keeps us around not only because he loves us but because he knows we are good decent people (most of us) and we are here to help others. I am trying to help you. You need to see another doctor, a specialist like a nephrologist. That is a kidney doctor. You have seen a cardiologist, I have a cardiologist as well. When I was in the ER they could find nothing wrong with my heart so they said I should see a kidney doctor. I thank God that I went to see him. Now I will see a vascular doctor on Friday as they are thinking I have chronic venous insufficiency or CVI. It is not really a big deal but it causes ulcers on my feet and if I am not treated it could lead to me having limbs cut off. Everything is important in our bodies when it is off balance. Your bp is currently off balance, it is not your norm. Get your bp back in balance and then work with your NEW doctor to figure out why it went so high. They thought I might have a blockage in my left renal artery that could be fibromuscular dysplasia or renal artery stenosis. Well it was neither. The MRI showed something but it was negative after all. So they put me on two really good bp drugs called Bystolec and Valturna plus baby aspirin. The Valturna has a diuretic in it as well as being a ARB. They also just called me in some HCTZ. Still have not found the reason for the big spike but I am not giving up on finding it. Good luck to you and God Bless!

Hi again, well i went to my cardiac dr.he took me off my lasix and put me on (hydrochlorot aka hydrodiuril 25mg) to see if this brings my bp in line but he said he also wants to know why it's spiking and if doesn't work there are other meds to try. So well see. Pray for me all. Thanks. God bless.

Hi poe, I hope you are doing well. I have not been on here lately because I have been doing so many things. My doc tested my kidneys with a MRI and the radiologist and my doc thought they saw a blockage in my left renal artery. I had an angiogram done and they discovered that there was nothing there. I was the 1 in 10 people who actually had a false positive result. Seems like I always get those kinda stats! They also tested my blood and had me do a 24 hour urine test and everything came out fine with that as well. Finally they did a doppler scan of my leg veins and they were fine. The one doc told my mom that my arteries looked like a 20 year olds! I am glad something does because all of the other illnesses I have had and the stress because of them (and many other factors in my life) I finally look my age.

As a matter of fact my neph. doc said that he thinks that stress is causing my high bp. I know that when I have been stressed in the past and have taken my bp it was high. Therefore maybe he is right. I just dont see how my bp could be continually high for 9 weeks before the 4 different types of meds I am currently taking kicked in. I would think every now and then or maybe in the beginning but there were so many moments when I was NOT STRESSED AT ALL. I became numb to the whole thing and as a matter of fact it seems to me that those 9 weeks were not real. I barely remember them. (I am able to do this though). Im just so frustrated because they always do this to women (no offense to you being a guy and all). I am sure you know what I am talking about.....they are always saying, "Oh you have high bp? Well it must be stress. Oh you have fibromyalgia? Well it must be depression, anxiety and stress. Then when it is men they just keep looking. It is not fair to women at all.

How is your new diuretic treating you? I hope it is helping. I know that my mom ONLY takes a diuretic, one very similar to yours, and it has gotten her blood pressure so low that sometimes she is concerned because it seems too low! Be careful though because they can cause your heart to beat too fast or for your heart to have palpitations. My neph doc prescribed me a diuretic because I called and asked him what he thought about the fact that I still have so much water retention and ankle nd hand swelling. Well he gave me a diuretic that I specifically told him I could not take because it causes my heart to beat too fast. I still have not started it because quite honestly I am AFRAID too! But dont worry too much because I remember my pharmacist told me that only .1% of people have this problem and of course I would be in that low stats group! Well take care and let me know how you are faring!

Hi there gang, thanks for the great info and kind words. Well it seems the new meds may be working my bp for the last 2-3 days has been around 123/90-92/134/94 and improvement over the last 8-9 weeks so pray for me that these meds work. Thanks and god bless.

Hi everyone well it seems my cardio Dr has brought my bp down to a somewhat normal level its now around 120-125/82-85 but now my heart rate is up to around 80-100 bts per minute. Had stress test today won't find out till tomorrow has anyone had a problem like this let. Me know. Thanks and God bless.

Hi poe,

Dont worry one bit about your pulse. It is absolutly normal. For 2 reasons. 1)anything between 60--100 bpm is normal and 2)I did an amazing amount of research on this issue since my original post was exactly about this issue. My bp would go very high and yet my pulse would plummet. Then my bp is normal now (due to 4 different kinds of meds) and my heart rate is up again to between 80--100. What I found out is this: Your heart rate actually helps to regulate your bp. You see when you are experiencing high bp your body knows that the bp needs to be controlled so it does all of these little checks and balances to keep it low. One of the things it does is send a message to your heart to slow down. When your heart does slow down it will not be pumping out blood as fast or as forcefully as before. This is a good thing because your arteries are narrowing and causing your blood "pressure" to push harder through your veins, if the heart is slowing down the blood flow then it wont actually be "pushing" so hard through your veins.

Imagine an old fashioned thin green plastic water hose. Imagine that it has been sitting out in the Texas heat for 10 summers and its pretty beat up but you cant afford a new one so this one has to do. Now you know you have to water your yard but you also know that if you try to turn on the water full blast it will rush throgh and could create holes in your old hose. If you keep the water low it will do its job like its supposed to do. Now say you go off to the store and you buy a brand new water hose. You know you can turn the water up on this one because when you do it will work fine. It wont create holes. The body regulates everything! It is very amazing. Its just a shame that I have had high bp for over 11 years and no doctor saw fit to let me have this information when I have asked repeatedly aout my low pusle and high bp.

My pulse went very low on atenolol 25. My PCP changed my med to Norvasc , I'm now at 10 mg the max, and BP still high, but pulse is 80 (It was 42 with atenolol)

He then added Toprol XL, he said that wouldn't lower my pulse rate like the atenolol...He recently had to up it to 50 mg and added HCTZ 25 mg as I'm still getting a high reading.

I've NEVER been on 3 meds to control my BP!!!! I also have to take potassium since I'm on the diuretic!! Crazy