My blood pressure to stabilize

[LindaR]

On Monday night, I had a monster headache...thought it was a migraine. We called the paramedics...when they took my b/p, it was 180/100...when we arrived at the ER, my b/p shot up to 214/132, which is stroke material. I had been on b/p meds for almost 5 years and suddenly stopped because my Dr. ignored 3 faxes from the pharmacy. Therefore, I had been w/o blood pressure meds for almost 6 weeks. They gave me 2 Clonidine tabs (probably a very high dose) in order to get my b/p down far enough to allow them to give me a CAT scan .. to be sure I didn't have a stroke. I checked out okay..no stroke. They also gave me a shot of morphine/phenergan for pain.

The next day when I went to the Dr. (not the same one who ignored the faxes from the pharmacy), my b/p was 105/60--which was quite a drop. I actually felt like I was intoxicated. My blood pressure isn't stabilizing as fast as I thought it would. The dyiastolic rate is still in the 60s (the second number)...the systolic rate is somewhere between 95-112 today.

Please pray for my b/p to stabalize.

I am now back on my original b/p meds.

[speerjp1]

Praise God you didn't have a stroke! I'll be praying for your bp to stabilize around normal levels. :pray

[IM4given]

:pray Praying for you sister, and for you to get a doctor who cares about his patients!

[HappyChristian]

Have prayed...

[Lee-Anne]

:pray

[LindaR]

:pray Praying for you sister' date=' and for you to get a doctor who cares about his patients![/quote']
This doctor who I had been seeing was located 40 miles away...therefore quite a trip (wear and tear on my van and the money used for gas) for a 7 minute visit. He kept ignoring the faxes from the pharmacy to update my scripts...so I gave up trying. I'm having my medical records transferred here to Cleveland to another doctor...who appears to be a bit more concerned about his patients. My b/p about 20 min ago was 132/77, which is about normal for me.

Thanks for the prayers guys!

[John81]

Praise God for caring for you through this. I do pray you will be well and safe now.

[Danny Carlton]

I could feel my bp going up this week as I had several clients all wanting their work done immediately. Then I cut down my caffeine consumption to just one mug of coffee in the morning, and it almost disappeared. How much caffeine do you drink on a daily basis? Maybe that may be one problem.

Praying.

[LindaR]

I could feel my bp going up this week as I had several clients all wanting their work done immediately. Then I cut down my caffeine consumption to just one mug of coffee in the morning, and it almost disappeared. How much caffeine do you drink on a daily basis? Maybe that may be one problem.

Praying.

I drink about 1 or 2 cups of coffee a day--some days I drink none. My husband usually drinks the rest of the pot---he's a big coffee drinker, I'm not. One time I was told that caffeine would stunt my growth...lol! I'm 4'11"! My husband also has low blood pressure (110/65 is average for him).

Heart problems and high blood pressure runs in my family too. I was taking b/p meds for 5 years then for the reasons I stated above, I stopped for a period of 6 weeks (my fault partly)---that is when my problems started. Praise God, I'm stable now--but still feel pretty weak.

Thank you for the prayers, Bro Danny!

[Larry02]

:pray