Hi everyone,
I need some advise. Last, after I wear a blood pressure monitor for 24 hours, I notice that I had all the time a systolic pressure of 130-140 and a high diastolic pressure of 95 to 100... So a blood pressure of an average of 135/105... I also notice tha my pulse rate was all the time fast, 130-160 when I was standing and around 90-100 when I was sit, BUT sometimes it was down to 70 in the evening...
The day after I wear the blood pressure monitor, I had to bring it back to the hospital and I had again that very fast pulse rate of 130-160, wasn't able to take my shower, I just get dress and had to go by car at the hospital with my mom.
In the car, I had a panic attack, as usual since being in a car is what trigger the biggest panic attack on me, and I had already the tachycardia before I leave the house so I was already in the panic mood ... When the panic start, I had the blood pressure monitor on me and the machine start and took my blood pressure and to my big surprise I had a blood pressure of 130/115 !!!
I don't care about the systolic number but the diastolic number was really freaking, also, my pulse rate raise up to 241 BPM!!! Never reach that peak before.. I felt so bad that I ask my mom to stop the car and had to open the door of the car, put my head between my knees and try to take some deep breath, even if I wasn't really able to breath... I also had the stronger chest pain I had in my life, my headache increase, I took 5 minutes and wait until my pulse rate decrease a little bit, even if I was not able to tale it with my fingers on my wrist, it was too fast... and I said to my mom to drive the faster she can to the hospital...
When I enter there, I go see the Nurse at the Cardiologist departement and when she remove the blood pressure monitor, I told her that I had a very fast pulse rate and that I wasn't feeling very well... She did a ECG and told me to go directly to the emergency with it...
At the emergency, the put me on a stretcher, they plug the machine for the vital signs and they do a blood work for the cardiac markers for heart damages or failure and they do some X-ray of my lungs...
Strangely, at the emergency, 5 minutes later my blood pressure was down to the normal range for both numbers, around 125/80... and my pulse rate was not stable but in the 70-80 range.
The Doc come to see me 2 hours later with the results and say the my ECG was normal but was showing superventricular tachycardia and he explain to me that it was not dangerous, just annoying... He say that for my high diastolic pressure, they didn't catch it cause when I arrived at the emergency my blood pressure was already lower (probably because the panic attack was over...)... He RX a holter monitor and say they will catch the tachycardia and the skip heart beat that I have regulary daily... the holter will be only done in 2 1/2 weeks...
Anyway, since that happen 5 days ago, I always have a very fast pulse rate, all the time 130 while i'm standing and 100 when i'm sit... sometimes it goes lower in the evening in the 70-80 range... Also, I always have a high blood pressure but the systolic number is all the time in the normal range, even if I do a panic attack so my average blood pressure since 5 days is around 135/95... in a panic attack or 5 minutes after it's around 140/110...
Is it normal or not? For the chest pain who continue to last and to be strong, is it normal also? I guess that if I had something wrong from my bad experience in the car, they will see it at the emergency like on the X-ray, the blood tests and the ECG no???
I have an appointment in 2 days and sadly I have to go there by car and it's 20 minutes away from my home... I already feel overstress and the more I think about it and the worse is my blood pressure... I try to change my minds, I try to relax, take a long bath, relaxation, meditating, deep breathing... nothing decrease the tachycardia and the high blood pressure... I even try again the Inderal at 20 mg and it did nothing for my blood pressure, I just had a worse fatigue than usual and was feeling quite anxious... I also try the Acebutolot at 100 mg and had the same reaction...
So what to do with that? I try to not dramatize or amplify the bad experience I had in the car last week and I also try to change my negatives thoughs into positive thougs but it's not seem to work...
Is it dangerous to have a high diastolic pressure like I had in the car if it's only last 15 minutes?
So any tips will be welcome!!!
Regular exercise, low sodium diet etc can help with your blood pressure as well. Sometimes it takes awhile to see results but I was able to come off 4 medications after a year with making lifestyle changes.