Does treating Pulmonary Hypertension help lower high-BP also?

[reb_1951]

Hello forum members,

For anyone in this BP-forum who happens to have Pulmonary Hypertension also…

I am currently awaiting tests to confirm whether I do or don’t have Pulmonary Hypertension (after being initially suspected of it during an Echocardiogram which stated I have ‘intermediate probability of pulmonary hypertension’).

I’ve heard there’s a whole range of medicines/treatments that can be given to treat Pulmonary-Hypertension (depending on what type of PH it is).

I don’t have any troubling symptoms of Pulmonary-Hypertension (such as breathlessness), but I do have persistently high Systolic-BP, which refuses to come down <145.

So my question for the Forum is, for anyone out there who has Pulmonary Hypertension, do the meds/treatments you take for Pulmonary-Hypertension also help bring your systolic-BP into the healthy-range <140? (Because for me, the only advantage of possibly taking PH-meds would be to try and bring my systolic-BP under control, as I don’t have any troubling PH symptoms.

Interested to hear others' experience of this!

[oldhuntress]

I do have pulmonary hypertension & have been on irbasartan for nearly 40 years, The cause of my PH was a patent ductus - a leaking valve since birth(a blue baby).I am now 86 and apart from my GP paniking over the water tablet I took in addition to my BP tablet which he withdrew due to low blood sodium my BP is now just below 120 (systolic) .

[reb_1951 in reply to oldhuntress]

Thank you so much for sharing. So would you say Irbasartan has been the main thing that has helped bring the BP into that healthy-range of 120?

And has the Irbasartan felt overall worth it to you, in terms of its benefits v side-effects?

[oldhuntress in reply to reb_1951]

Irbasartan has only been effective when taken with an appropriate "water tablet" - recently this is indapamide - previously I had taken a thiazide but this has been fround upon recently as it lowers blood sodium , supposedly leading to kidney problems.The main prblem for me with irbasartan is reflux which can be extremely uncomfortable and painful and needs daily antacids/acid blockers.Hope this helps.

[oldhuntress]

It is definitely sodium that has been lowered in my blood tests - and I am not alone in this, Others have reported on this site that Gps have withdrawn thiazides from treatment because of possible falls in blood sodium levels.

[Hana2106]

Hi, I have just been given the same diagnosis. Did you have it confirmed after the test, and what were the next steps?

[peter999999999]

145 and you on bp pills you must be mad,