It's not official yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll be diagnosed with hypertension within the next week. I had an appointment the Friday before Christmas to get a new birth control script. When they did my vitals, my blood pressure was at 158/102. That's no good. It's been climbing since my last pregnancy, but was never high enough for my doctor to really be concerned about it.
He wanted me to get a cuff and monitor my blood pressure over the next few weeks. I wasn't going to go anywhere near Wal-Mart to get a monitor during Christmas, so I was putting it off.
I drove myself to the ER last night around midnight. I had some chest pain earlier in the day and then a headache for about 8 hours. They did an EKG and everything was fine, but my BP was 152/103. The ER doctor wants me to get in to see my primary care doc ASAP.
This is not good.
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Oh Katie, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear that. :(
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