High blood pressure episode and losartan increased from 50mg to 75mg by cardiologist and short-term stress causing blood pressure to go out of control
I had a period of high stress, and it caused my blood pressure to rise to 170/100, and I took myself to A&E. They gave me something to reduce in short term (3 days) while I waited to see the cardiologist. By chance, the cardiologist saw me at A&E for 1 minute and he advised them to fit an ambulatory blood pressure monitor, so I had baseline data for 72 hours when I attended the appointment with the cardiologist, 3 days later.
Further to reviewing the data from the ambulatory blood pressure monitor, the cardiologist increase of my medication from 50mg to 75mg of losartan.
The cardiologist asked me to do a measurement in the morning and evening.
I was supposed to go back to him after 2 weeks, but I had to cancel the appointment, and I have been recording my blood pressure for 4 weeks now and I expect to do it for another 2 or 3 weeks before I see him again.
As a matter of routine, I use BOTH a Hilo and a traditional blood meter with arm strap.
The Hilo is useful as it automatically tracks 24/7, you get average daily, weekly, and monthly data.
I also measure manually with my traditional blood pressure meter between 4 and 8 times a day and each time three times taking the average. I will continue to do this until I see the cardiologist, but once I see him if he does not change my medication dose.
What is very annoying is that my blood pressure had been runing below 120/80 consistently when I was on 50mg of losartan and one stressful period has caused the blood pressure to go out of control and even on the highter dose of 75mg it is still not gone down to where it was before and the short term (5 weeks) source of stress has passed.
Anyone else had an experience like this?