Hypertension?
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jessicatemple1979 asked:
My mom has never had high blood pressure and it does not run in our family. of course with age everything changes. Anyway, last week she started having chest pains and felt sick to her stomach. She has had numbness in her fingers that woke her up and the chest pain has actually woken her up. She went to the doctors yesterday because she was still experiencing chest pain and her blood pressure which is usually 118 over some low number was now 160/100! Very shocked the doc put her on a EKG monitor and then gave her nitro and baby asprin then got her pressure down to 90/70 (i think) and she was sent to the hospital. At the hospital and at rest and no stress her pressure raised to 158/100 again she is feeling heavy chested and was still having pains last night. She is going for a stress test first thing this morning. I was just wondering if this was a severe case of hypertension or perhaps something else is going on? Just a concerned daughter
Hands On CPR
My mom has never had high blood pressure and it does not run in our family. of course with age everything changes. Anyway, last week she started having chest pains and felt sick to her stomach. She has had numbness in her fingers that woke her up and the chest pain has actually woken her up. She went to the doctors yesterday because she was still experiencing chest pain and her blood pressure which is usually 118 over some low number was now 160/100! Very shocked the doc put her on a EKG monitor and then gave her nitro and baby asprin then got her pressure down to 90/70 (i think) and she was sent to the hospital. At the hospital and at rest and no stress her pressure raised to 158/100 again she is feeling heavy chested and was still having pains last night. She is going for a stress test first thing this morning. I was just wondering if this was a severe case of hypertension or perhaps something else is going on? Just a concerned daughter
Hands On CPR
June 6th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Hypertension and that she does have anything serious.
Hypertension she does have hypertension and due to check her tension before if she doesnt have hypertension she does have to take drugs to start measuring her.
June 6th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
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June 6th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
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