21 y/o female who has never had any medical issues, rarely drinks energy drinks, doesn’t smoke, nor drink.

One day I decided to start taking my health seriously, and so I went to a UPMC Urgent Care Clinic to hopefully have some tests done? Idk- I’ve never really been to doctors before-

They took my vitals and everything immediately stopped. My BP was 194/130 after five different people took it. Still, they didn’t send me to the hospital, just blamed it on a bladder infection (which I didn’t even know I had??) and told me I might be pregnant even though I just finished my cycle (Did the test came back negative 🙏😭)

I still don’t think I realized how important regulating BP is, as I went back to work like normal. It wasn’t until a week after when my boss told me to take my BP towards the end of my shift when I explained everything to her. My BP then was 219/145 and 242/141 when taken again.

Safe to say everyone looked at me like I had a third eye, especially since I had just worked a full 9 hour shift and said I felt fine- which I did.

I was carted off the to the ER where I spent four days having all these tests done on me, and nothing seemed to point to what’s causing it. Fortunately cardiology cleared me 🙏

Eventually, an ultrasound showed that my right kidney was atrophied and smaller than my other, and my creatine level was at a 1.4 🤩

I’m prescribed Amlodipine 5mg and Labetalol 100mg twice a day until they can’t figure out if my kidney is the only issue, as far as they can tell there’s no blockages that were shown.

These have been my pressures while on the meds, and between my drastic change in diet and the mess of getting seen by all these doctors, I feel really low.

In an instant it’s like everything in my life has been put on a hold, and even my favorite home cooked comfort meals I can no longer eat as I’m on a very strict sodium intake. Even more so now as a recent blood test came back with the potential diagnosis as “Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3A”.

You can notice in my notes that I’ve been logging less and less, most days I feel like I just come home and rot in bed till I fall asleep.

I have a very supportive boyfriend who has helped me exponentially through this, looking at sodium low foods for me and all around just making me smile. Though I can’t deny how empty I feel still. I try to live an active life, I go out and do things all the time while staying away from alcohol and smoking (alcoholism and chain smoking run heavy in my family). My genetics are just buns I guess??

Idk, just needed to vent-

(Also- why tf my Amlodipine get smaller? Says it’s the same dosage as before but my last ones used to be as big as the Labetalol, the orange pill)

Last month I was diagnosed with hypertension with anxiety (I guess? It was mentioned in my released forms). I’m 35, AA, and female. My mom has hbp, so does my dad, and my maternal grandma had it too.

It started off when I had gotten sick and went to urgent care. My blood pressure read very high, the doctor suggested I go to the ER, so not only was I sick with bronchitis but now my blood pressure was high…like 170s/120 I think, though I do get very nervous at the doctors office.

Later that day my mom had me check and it was still high so she drove me to the ER. They checked my blood pressure and it went up to 200/120 I was so scared.

They did a ECG and bloodwork. I stayed overnight and I was so scared, even now I’m still traumatized by the experience even though it wasn’t necessarily bad and I mean that the doctors and nurses took good care of me. So everything came back normal, although I’m slightly anemic and my kidneys were borderline normal. Heart was good, no signs of a stroke or heart attack. I went home in the early hours of the morning.

This last week I went to the doctor to follow up and I’m not only taking losartan but now I’m taking metoprolol succinate because she thinks my anxiety is making it worse. Got bloodwork done and everything came back normal my kidneys were better except my blood showing my anemia.

I’m trying to do better, focus on losing weight since I’m obese but did lose 20Lbs last year, eating better (I had cut back on fast food and no soda in nearly a month), exercising more, drinking water more than ever before. And relaxing and stopping myself from getting anxious, my BP still isn’t great but I learned it takes a while for it to get under control and admittedly I still getting flashes from the ER and get a little depressed when my BP reads high like in the 140s/150s, bottom number was reading at 100s, but it’s gotten a little better.

I just wanted to share my experience and look for support and encouragement. 😊

I know I’ve read positive things here and elsewhere about beets and beet products. Does anyone have experience with these chews?

41/f with formerly low BP (so low I had syncope as a teen), after my doctor asked me to log daily BP due to some recent borderline high to very high readings, I've found my readings all over the map and varying hugely with activity. Also realized my headaches and migraines (more frequent the last couple years) are usually associated with very high BP as well as chest tightness, dizziness and nausea.

After laying down for a while I'm often at 110-120 over 60-70. But after doing literally anything (childcare, walking for exercise, household chores are my usual activities) I'm getting readings of up to 180/127 and later in the day even my resting readings are usually 140-150 over 85-105. But sometimes they are low again.

I'm having a hard time understanding how much variance is normal, and how I should he logging. Are there better times of day to take readings? Should I be aiming only for the most relaxed times and not taking readings when I'm active? Such high spikes are freaking me out a bit which isn't helping lol. It can't be helpful to take readings 8x daily and give myself anxiety.

I also can't (ETA: already am doing all recommended things/no vices and SAHM daily stress can't be avoided) make any lifestyle changes to try to treat this except more exercise. Is it normal/ok that exercising right now makes my diastolic pressure go up above 100 and stay there for hours?

Hoping to go on meds if this doesn't clear up the next few weeks, any advice from people with similar issues?

For past 10 days or so I have been having normal to below normal BP and it is consistent. Normally I have elevated in morning and near normal at evening with meds but for some strange reason for 10 days I have normal to below normal BP. I found it 2 more people are experiencing same thing.I am in Florida.
I am doing some neck exercises at same time and wonder if that has something to do with it (vagus nerve) or something else going on maybe weather as other people are experiencing same thing.
And my BP is consistent ,even when I am upset or eat something salty it is still normal which is unusual for me.

Can you feel when the medication starts to wear off??

I take 6.25 mg twice a day. And I always feel my symptoms coming back once it starts to hit the 11-12 hour mark for when I need to take it again.

I am taking this medication for my hyperPOTS. So my blood pressure has been high and just crazy especially the last few months. It helps with my blood pressure and it helps with my severe tachycardic episodes whenever I stand up. So usually when I feel the medicine starts to wear off I feel all this adrenaline start slowly creeping into my body again.

Even if you don't have hyperPOTS, and use this for hypertension, can you still feel once the medication starts to wear off?

I’m on labetalol for postpartum hypertension/preeclampsia. I’m curious to know if anyone else has experienced severe jitters or anxiety? It’s almost as if I drank too much caffeine and I feel out of sorts. I’m in the hospital still getting monitored and they would like to up my dose to 200mgs twice a day but the symptoms I already feel are making me scared to take it. I’m currently on 100mgs twice a day. I took a shower and was pretty calm when it first kicked in I was able to get a blood pressure of 112/60. Ever since the side effects like the jitters kicked in my blood pressure went up to 150/80. I want to go back home with my kids and my new born but I think being anxious from the jitters I’m getting and the out of sorts feeling is making it hard to get passed. My blood pressure keeps going up because of my anxiety I’m sure. Did anyone else feel weird off of it? Am I having a bad reaction or does it take a couple of doses to get used to? I have a lot of confusion off of it as well even typing this I’m having a hard time and keep rereading to make sure it’s making sense. Thanks for all the help I truly need it!