Sudden rise in BP

Many people find that beetroot juice also heps to lower it. I found it really disgusting to drink. Even my wife would not finish off the carton!

Block your nose and drink it like medicine...Lololol it's beneficial. I have Beetroot slices on bread.......yummy. 

I hate it in any way shape or form. My Granny used to boil her own in a big cauldron.

I have been getting frequent fluctuations like that for 17 years

I have been reading the posts here and thought I'd add my two cents worth--even though I'm a bit dismayed that no one seems to get any answers regarding their blood pressure spikes from the docs.  I am suddenly having them, too, although I have had hypertension for years. I am hovering around the seventh decade and neither smoke nor drink.  I usually exercise more [walk] but it's so bleeping hot here lately--about 100 Fahrenheit every day.  A few days ago I was just playing solitaire on my laptop when I felt a headache getting worse.  I have a blood pressure monitor here and found my pressure was something like 180 over 110!  The next time I took it, it had gone up to 220 over 120!  Pulse  was 130. This was so much higher than my normal hypertensive pressure that I thought the monitor might be broken and so asked my neighbor across the hall if I could take hers to check.  It registered her normal pressure.  She has a monitor, as well, and I tested myself on that.  Same horrible reading.  Not feeling well enough to drive myself to the hospital, I called 911.  The responders got the same reading and urged me to come with them.  At the ER I had a CT scan of the brain and blood tests. Evidently, the extra doses of Amlodipine and Propranolol I had taken when I got the first high reading at home kicked in and my BP went down quite quickly in the hospital.  All that was found from the tests was a slightly low level of potassium and I was given some of that--and sent home.

?Just prior to this, I had started to feel cold--even in this extreme heat, so much so that I left the AC off. It's continued off and on ever since, this cold feeling.  These chills came on me for awhile about six years ago and lasted for some weeks.  Nobody could figure that out, either.  I thought I had cured myself by starting to take daily vitamins but I've never stopped taking them and now the chills are back.

?Last night I woke up from a sound sleep because my whole body was shaking or throbbing.  When I touched my arm I could feel it throbbing in a strange way and my pulse was going so fast I couldn't even take it manually.  I also felt cold.  I put on the BP monitor and got 180/110 with a pulse of 130.  Why would ones pressure rise so high at night?  I don't even recall dreaming and seldom do.  It was the trembling of my body that woke me.  So I took those same two meds--one for my pressure and the other for my pulse--and just waited for things to return to more normal.  When the pressure and the pulse went down, the throbbing in all my limbs also stopped.  Then I managed to go back to sleep.  It;s pretty weird but now, reading here, I wonder if it's even worthwhile visiting my GP!

I have had the same problem and after loads of tests the doctors at the hospital down to paroxysmal tachcardia ie very fast pulse rate which affected the blood pressure ut without any specific cause. Because it only happens every now and then I have stopped worrying about and just regard it as one of those things. I have too many other serious things wrong with me to panic about it - I have a rare genetic liver disease called Carolis  amongst other things

Yes, I have had tachycardia for years.   I take Propranolol​  as  needed for it.  A very annoying and sometimes frightening condition.  It can be affected by low potassium so I try to  watch that.

That is really helpful. Do you take potassium on prescription or is it something you can get pharmacy or health food stores? Thanks. I already take propanolol for another condition so that probably explains why I have had no episodes for a year now.

I also suffer from dysphagia [difficulty swallowing] and have to have my esophagus stretched occasionally.  Regardless, I have to chew carefully and take small bites.  I also have problems swallowing large tablets or capsules and the potassium ones are big.  So I try to get my potassium from bananas and other foods.  You must be on regular doses of the Propranolol.  I just take it per needed as being on it all the time makes me feel too tired.  I am used to those attacks of tachycardia, for sure, but have not had such high blood pressure spikes before.

Greetings Archer. First time to this site and no surprise it was after a visit to my GP today. And as usual my BP screamed and hollered at 110/120. As it was a new GP he immediately asked what medication I was on, Atenolol, and he told me I needed to think about changing my BP medication as it obviously wasn’t working. What I told the GP was that I needed to get the heck out of his office because my blood pressure only bolted like a wild horse whenever I entered a GP office. To get to your point. In 2007 I had an episode where my BP exploded and I had to be hospitalised. The docs ask the same questions, was there headaches, no, was there chest pains, no.... ultimately they said they couldn’t detect what was my problem and closed my case saying it was a Tachycardia attack. So for the past ten years my blood pressure jumps and dives like a dolphin whenever it chooses but seems to max out whenever I visit the office to have my pressure checked and their only answer seems to be, let’s try another medication. The moral to that tale? None my friend, or maybe, monitor, monitor and monitor your own numbers and if you see a steady and consistent number that is outside your average, then get back to your doctor. In the meantime try to learn and understand your body’s changes. And if it helps, I have experienced some of your concerns.

Paul

Blessings.

Do you have Eosinophilic Esophagitis?

Since my original post, I have been i hospital twice - firstly with a very fast heart rate which after many tests was diagnosd a paroxyzmal tachycardia complicated by Type 2 diabetes which had gone completely out of control, and more recently I have been diagnosed with a rare genetic liver disease called Carolis 

Sorry to hear this.

Can they do anything for Carolis?

Caroli's can't be cured but when you have symptoms it can be treated with antibiotics and/or surgery. I am waiting for an operation to remove part of my liver

Hope all went well, Gill.

🎬had the operation Septeber 28th and was a lot bigger than I had expected but I am recovering slowly. Just less than half the liver was removed but thankfully the liver is one of the few organs that regenerates and the surgeon believes rthat by next Spring it should be back to normal but without the stones and tumours.

This is great news! Hope it continues to go well.