weeva44

My mother has history of high blood pressure. She had the gastric sleeve on Monday. Was released from hospital Friday morning. Friday afternoon BP was 180/110. She's on Atenolol for high blood pressure and also on levothyroxine for thyroid issues. Took her to ER Dept. Friday. They kept her overnight and gave her more meds. BP is still very high. Can't seem to get anywhere with any doctors. Any reason why BP would be so high after surgery even with meds?

Thank you everyone for all of the feedback. My mother seems to be getting better. Blood pressure is starting to go down. She has a follow up appointment on 2/6 with her regular doctor and hopefully they will figure out what happened. I think her situation is similar to UKHEIDI. She isn't currently taking any pain medications (pain has actually been minimal since leaving the hospital) but she was feeling quite foggy for some time and attributed that to her high blood pressure. When she stopped feeling so foggy and then took her blood pressure it had gone down. My OPINION (I am no doctor so this is just my opinion) is that the anesthesia stayed in her system for quite a long time, maybe because of the sleeve, and that is what was causing the high blood pressure. Hoping to get some real answers in a couple of days.