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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?

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I don't know of any sleeve-related reason. Could be this is something not related to the sleeve at all. Best wishes!

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Husband was on 3 BP meds and I was on 2, we are both off one BP med each. Our BP is excellent 2 months post op, and after surgery. Seems they would be finding the problem at the hospital. Have they done kidney tests on her? Google kidneys and HBP and research. Best wishes to you both.

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Could be post op pain is causing the increase. I take 2 meds for htn also. When I'm in pain, my bp tends to be higher.

Good luck!

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Hi

I was sleeved on 21 Jan and my blood pressure, which was not a problem before, has been through

the roof since.

My doctor told me it was a side effect of Anaesthetic, plus pain, and they will monitor.

hopefully not a long term issue

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Thanks for the information. I never heard this before. Good luck everyone. This is why this site is so great, your sharing is phenominal and will help so many.

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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.

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Blood Pressure...Right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing?? My surgeon says he doesn't deal with B/P and my PCP doesn't seem to know a lot about the Sleeve...What the H---! I was on 2 blood pressure meds and was told Not to take them. Now I had my visit with PCP and he didn't put me back on them. My range is between 140/90 and sometimes its 124/74...I DONT GET IT!

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Ask if it's related to the CO2 gas used (if it was laproscopic). That happened to me after I had lap band surgery. It was scary...headache and blurred vision. It did resolve with meds. Best of luck to your mom.

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