Terrified high bp will cause stroke please help

[Lassie2]

Hi Everyone. Hope you are ok this morning. Im 44yr old female. I cared for and lost my dad 16 months ago. Im a weekend binge drinker - 2 bottles wine, 3 or 4 beers. Im trying to address all this alomg with a distressing life situation im working on this with therapist. However my real concern is my bp. Iv had ecg, endocardiogram all normal and been to a cardiologist 7 months ago. She was happy i didnt have hypertension. However my gp done another 24 hr monitor and my overall result averaged 148/89. She has put me on 15mg of lercandepine. 4 weeks ago. I am obsessed im going to have a stroke. When i get it taken in the surgery since it sores. Im so depressed and cant stop thinking about it. Not for 5 minutes. Iv started working out hard in the gym and its not taxing. Any words of comfort. Please dont say anything to further worry me. My gp doesnt want to see me for 4 weeks to check it again. I decided not to buy a home monitor incase of obsession.. when taken in surgery it sores to 180/100

 

[Footballmadness2019]

First of all I am sorry for your loss. Try not to worry to much it takes years of high blood pressure to cause problems. High blood pressure is only dangerous when it's not controlled and is persistently high. The tablets that you are taking are for high blood pressure and will prevent a stroke or heart attack from occurring keep calm and stay positive.

 

[bin_tenn]

148/89 is not terribly high, but it's of course not ideal. I have mildly elevated BP (about 145/90), and despite family history of early heart disease my doc and cardiologist are both not concerned. I'm on a low dose beta blocker (25mg Atenolol) since July 2015, and it controls the BP very well. My doc told me they're more concerned about the diastolic pressure (bottom number), as it's apparently more of an indicator of heart disease than systolic when it's consistently high.

Stress will definitely cause spikes in BP, as can other things. Smoking, alcohol, drug use, being overweight, etc. What did your doc say about your BP? Have you addressed your concern with them?

 

[matisworried]

I'm really sorry for your loss. as mentioned above, strokes are caused by YEARS of constant untreated blood pressure, not random or occasional highs.

remember that your blood pressure changes every second and that there are many factors that can temporarily cause it to be elevated... a big one of those is STRESS... like the kind you're under when you suffer from health anxiety and you're in a doctor's office expecting to be diagnosed with a terrible illness. they actually have a name for that, by the way... white coat hypertension.