To theeagle

In your post you mentioned that opiate use effects blood pressure. At one time AH started mentioning that at his dr visits he was having slightly higher blood pressure readings. He had never had any problems with high blood pressure. I searched the internet at that time and never could find any info linking these. What is your experience with opiates and blood pressure?


This discussion is related to opiate user with anger issues.

[notgoingdown]

thats strange... I posted this in reply to a post of theeagles on the ask a dr forum and somehow it ended up here as a new topic.

[dominosarah]

He will see it when he comes on the forum.

[whitie]

It did effect my BP.

[notgoingdown]

Did it make your blood pressure higher or lower than normal?

[whitie]

higher, but I was on quite a bit, then when I got on methadone it seemed to be the same. 5 1/2 years of using,might made a difference, I would say.

going through a drastic cut back in use will make it go nuts.  needless to say, you dont want to even look at when going through wd's. my veins were huge !!

but it eventually went back to normal.

[notgoingdown]

thanks

[madtram]

Our naturally produced opiates help to regulate blood pressure. Opiate drugs take over this role & the natural opiates continue to be suppressed during withdrawal until the receptors regain their sensitivity.

Until then, the modulatory controls are absent resulting in blood pressure swings including hypertension.

This is why clonodine can help in withdrawal.

Best wishes.