high blood pressure

kebabish · March 31, 2006

hi again everyone yesterday went for my checkup at hospital for bloods and blood presure then stayed in hotel with my husband in nottingham called the cockcliffe hotel lovely place then this morning went in to hospital for 11,o,clock had the same routin done blood pressure was high but told not to worry it was maybe because i was nervous about the op they said i was going down at 5.30pm so about an hour later they checked my blood pressure again it was still high so they said they would check it every half an hour 2 more times they checked it STILL HIGH.......4 o clock came the surgeon said they couldent do op and that i would have to go to docs get some medication and when blood pressure went down they would do op you can imagine how i felt we have just got home and cant wait to get to the docs on monday any way thanks for reading this x x x:think

kebabish · March 31, 2006

hello me again i should of put the date it all happened todat 31st march

juliek · March 31, 2006

Oh no, sorry to hear that! I have high blood pressure, but comes down nicely with meds.

Good luck

jtrek · March 31, 2006

Sorry to hear that happend, but it is probably safer than doing the surgery with your BP up. I also have high BP and it is controlled well with the medication. Keep us posted on what you find out next week at the doctor.

kebabish · April 1, 2006

thank you for your comments hopefully if i get meds on monday for bp i will get my op at the end of the month . do you know would medication work that quick.

Dody · April 1, 2006

I'm very surprised that you weren't given Procardia at the hospital. I worked the ER for 38 years and that is the first step we took with high blood pressure. One Procardia tablet usually lowers the BP about 30 points in 30 minutes. It is common practice in hospitals to try this method. I can't understand why the dr. didn't try to lower your blood pressure. We used to get a lot of trauma patients whose BP would be very high, and you may have what we called "white coat syndrome" meaning doctors or hospitals actually make you nervous and your PB sky-rockets. So sorry you had to be sent home, but curious why they didn't try and lower your BP in hospital surroundings.