Has anyone?!

[Chache]

Has anyone experienced high blood pressure

[Hidden]

Hello

Yes I have high blood pressure , well I don't now as long as I take my meds to keep it down

When my BP was high I really did not seem to have any symptoms at all , it was only because I had gone to the Doctors with something else that it came up that it was high , then they kept a check on t for about a year and it was not coming down so I went on BP tablets

Have you got high BP ?

Take Care x

[Chache in reply to Hidden]

After pregnancy was when my BP became high and ever since then im on bp medication, but im so scared ever since i been searching up for heart attacks symptoms and i be having left side pain even though i went to the ER twice and everything is normal but idk maybe the doctors are wrong idk if you ever experienced this idk if its my anxiety or i have heart issues

[Hidden in reply to Chache]

I spent years worry about my heart but then I would move on to something else , the pain could be simple trapped wind or indigestion but the good thing is that you are on BP meds that helps keep you from having high BP which is good for the heart it is when people walk round with High BP for years and do nothing about it that could eventually affect them

Also my doctor once told me that been a female our hormones also protect us from heart problems so there is another bonus

Please stop looking things up as you will only make yourself worse and I will say my Dad had several heart attacks and what you describe was " None " of the symptoms you say you are having , this is your anxiety keeping hold of you but not reality as it is x

[Chache in reply to Hidden]

Thank you so much it means a lot to me. What are the symptoms your dad had if you dont mind me asking?!

[Hidden in reply to Chache]

No I am not going to tell you what they were

Two reasons

1. If I did you would no doubt think you have them by tomorrow because sounds like you have HA

2. If anyone else in the Community read what the signs were that was also worrying about their heart it could also trigger them of to

We don't want that happening but you don't have any of the symptoms he had x

[Chache in reply to Hidden]

Haha i know im just like that i cant stop searching for symptoms. As i talked to you i was havig a panic attack i saw everything black for a min today is just not a good day for me at all. Im scared

[Hidden in reply to Chache]

If you keep searching you will always find the answer that puts the fear in you and that is what anxiety wants you to do and the first thing you can do for yourself to help you on the road to been anxiety free is to Stop !

I know habits can be hard to break but we can break them

Just tell yourself " For Today " I will not search or even an hour at a time and then when the urge comes again do another day or hour , only your Doctor can tell you what if anything is physically wrong and if they give you the all clear you have to trust them and address the anxiety

Panic attacks are dreadful and at the moment you have one you can feel like you are dying but again trust me no one has ever dies of a panic attack just feels like it , I hope you have recovered from it and feeling a little better now

Today seems like not a good day but you can start the day again at any time you want and make it a good one , your anxiety would hate that as it would loose control or maybe start it tomorrow again if you do not feel you can today

Fear again is what anxiety loves it feeds of it and keeps the cycle going round , it is normal to feel scared and if you can accept that feeling as an emotion that is ok to have it will pass soon x

[Chache in reply to Hidden]

Thank you so much you are a really good listener and i love how you always find a solution. Im only 25 yo by the way, im new to this whole anxiety thing. It all started 2015 when i had my first baby, i started to think that i was becoming schizophrenic just because i was looking up some symptoms and that came out, i was going through depression and anxiety without knowing until i went to the Doctor and he diagnosed me with GAD and depression. I didnt know anxiety can make you feel symptoms that arent even there, and looking back at my past i had anxiety ever since i was a kid, everytime someone used to die or get a dissease or virus i used to think that would happen to me.

[Hidden in reply to Chache]

Hello again

You remind me of years ago and I say years as I am old enough to be your Mum

But when I was young life was so so , I needed to feel protected and I did by my Mum but I look bad now and realize I was in this happy protected little bubble

Anyway my Mum & my Grandma were the two women in my life that I looked up to and respected and thought they were such strong women

Then I remember my Grandma coming to stay for a few nights and I know they were only trying to protect me but even as a small child I could sense with this visit something was not right

I was woken in the night hearing this dreadful crying , it was the worse sound I ever heard and it was coming from my Mum & Grandma

I did not know what to do and hit under the covers and waited till morning to be told my Uncle had died

Up to that moment I knew nothing about death this was my first experience and because the two women that I looked up to had cried in such a way that sounded so painful and had burst this secure bubble I was in I feared it from that moment on

I was very young maybe only 7 and I started doing things even so young to try and protect me and my loved ones from having to go through this thing ever again

I started with ocd even that young , looking under my bed so many times at night , flushing the toilet so many times , looking in the wardrobe so many times , going back and re doing things so many times the list goes on and in my undeveloped brain I was doing all these things believing this would protect us all and welcome to a world of ocd because that is what I had developed but did not know and was to afraid to tell anyone in case again they took away what I felt secure with been at home and with my family so I went through school so afraid , feeling so different from everyone else yet trying to be the same and feared there was something dreadfully wrong with me because I would look at other children and I could clearly see they were not worrying like me

I had my first child very young I was only 17 , I had this ocd but did a good job of covering it all up yet I was broken inside

When she was born my anxiety went up , the thoughts of what if something happens to me , she would be upset and feel the pain like I did when I lost my Uncle , how would she live like that and who could comfort her like I would be able to do or even worse what if something happens to her , O my goodness and the ocd the thing I used thinking it was protecting me soared even more till my life was ruled by believing I had something or my Daughter would get something and would die mostly it was me , first a heart attack , then it would be a Brain Tumor , then it would be a blood clot in fact I had that much in my head telling me what was going to be our fate that I know for a fact I would be at the Doctors every 2 mins saying I had things wrong that they would reply that would make medical history if you had that because my wonderful anxiety brain was making illnesses that never even existed as it was running out of those that did !

I am sure post natal depression did not help but even when that had lifted the same fears were there

Back then Mental Health was never spoken about , if you touched on how you felt , people would say don't be silly , you will be alright and you could sense that meant don't keep mentioning it so you didn't part of you felt you would get locked up for been crazy so you just carried on all the time your head screaming inside and no one to talk to and no where to go for help

My eldest is 36 now and I am here telling part of my story which says I wasted a lot of years worrying about something happening and the illnesses I would actually feel all the symptoms and there was no Google then for me to look them up that is how strong anxiety can be it can mimic you fears

I have gone on a bit but my point I was trying to get across when I hear you are a Mum and so young is please don't have a story like mine when you get into your 50's to tell , let yours read different , let it read I suffered with anxiety till I was 25 and then I went and got all the help I could and I have never looked back since

Try and get support and listen to the support offered so you can break this cycle now rather than suffering longer than you need to and especially as now we can talk about it and there is help x

[Chache in reply to Hidden]

Aww i loved your story i know that was harsh for you a 7 year old scared and no one to talk to bc she thought people were going to think she was crazy :/ that must have been so hard for you. I really loved your story i can totally relate to it. Sometimes it just gets hard like today i went to the Dr and my blood pressure was high and when they told me that i thought i was going to have a heart attack i was really anxious to beging with and didnt take my bp meds before i went, so my entire day today is a complete dissaster from worrying about a heart attack to worrying about a stroke. I was just feeling all kinds of way today

[Hidden in reply to Chache]

That was just one chapter , could write several whole books

You are young , ok you need to keep your BP down , you did not take you meds which that will have made it read higher as well as been anxious but from now on you will take the meds which will keep your BP in check and your heart will be fine and if the meds you are taking need changing at any time they will do that , I have had a few different kinds over the years

Today started bad but let it end good , you won't be going anywhere for a long time yet x

[Chache in reply to Hidden]

Thank you so much lulu you are an awesome helper!! Thank you for listening to this desesperate girl that is new to this anxiety illness but with help of people like you i know ill get through it and i will drink my pills from now on. 😘

[Jodz]

Yes but it's controlled with bp tablets . But I can get a real lightheaded weird feeling and I check my bp and it's very very high then I go into a panic attack . It spikes . What are you experiencing ??

[Chache in reply to Jodz]

Mines too i hate getting lightheaded i know what you mean i get that all the time bc my bp is high thats when my panick attacks

[Agora1]

Hi Chache, did you know that most people with high blood pressure don't feel anything? That's one of the reasons it's called the "silent killer". People walk around living it up and not until they have a physical do the numbers shock them. I also have high b/p and am on medication. The weird feeling in your head, the lightheadedness and even the dark moment or two are more caused by anxiety then by high b/p. When we are anxious, our pressure goes up automatically, so which came first, the chicken or the egg? Get rid of anxiety and the pressure will go down w/o medication. Have been in the ER in the past with high b/p and fast heart rate. The doctors give you a Xanax or Ativan and within minutes you are back to normal. It's telling you how our anxiety plays a big part in most things we experience.

[Chache in reply to Agora1]

Thank you very much that means a lot to me to know that. It really calms me down i thought i was going to have a heart attack im just scared ever since i started looking up stuff

[kinikia95]

I have high blood pressure but I didn't know it until I had a checkup and I'm extremely sensitive to changes. From what I understand there are rarely symptoms and I didn't get any. I take a pill and it is fine now. Not ideal but it works.

[Chache in reply to kinikia95]

Im glad you are doing well. Just take your medication as you should and you'll be fine