BLOOD PRESSURE 300/200

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Hi long story I found out last may I had high blood pressure after one of my eyes went funny had a dark patch when I was looking ....... I went to get my eyes tested ..... they did they tests panicked the whole place into a frenzy after telling me something wasn't right sent me straight up to hospital ..........after waiting what seamed like forever .......was finally seen to the doc took one look at my eyes and asked a nurse to take my blood pressure. .......the nurse couldn't get the machine to work and was very confused called the doc over who then got a manual bp machine got my bp to a reading of 300/200 I could then see he was in a panic told me then I wasn't going home that night my bp was the highest he had ever seen ......so was in hospital for 2 week hdu for 7 days had mri ct scans to see what was going on blood tests ect ..... after all these test they never found a reason for such high bp since then been on 4 different types of tablets to help bring my bp down all was going well till couple of months ago started to rise again so upped and upped my tablets to they highest dose still not much better went to go and see the cardiologist on tue who has now said I need to go on another tablet ....he said he has never met anyone so young am 35 ......with such high blood pressure and not been able to find a cause...... so he's gunna try me on this tablet if it still high they going to do some retesting and look at anything else that it could be just wanted to share my story and see if anyone has had a similar experience thank you in advance for taking the time to read steph

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