Ok, so I am 29 years old. I have four children, chronic Kidney disease and my blood pressure appears to be out of control. Yesterday my GP gave me a 24 hour blood pressure test. It was not very successful! I eventually took the cuff off at 2am and cried a lot because of the pain. Went back to the nurse today with the wretched machine, and an arm with a dreadful rash were the cuff has exerted so much pressure it has broken all the capillaries under the skin! Nurse explained that the readings the machine did manage to take are all so high that the reason the cuff tightened so much was to find the high readings, which are off the scale.
Now I don't want to spend the rest of my life on medication. I am only 29, and I would like more children ideally but the medication they want to give me I couldn't take whilst pregnant. What would you do? Need to go back to the GP but really worried because blood pressure could be affecting my already dodgy kidneys.
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Sparklymommy · 10/04/2013 19:31
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