Sorry, this is a long one, and I'm grateful if anyone managed to read through
Went to see the GP maybe 8 weeks ago for medication review and mentioned that my blood pressure had been high. GP confirmed it was high and asked me to see the nurse the following week and check again.
Next visit the nurse said it was 167/115 and went to get a doctor who arranged for 24 hour monitoring.
Did the 24h, went back and the nurse said that the readings were the same and went off to fetch a doctor again. The doctor said because it was quite high he would prescribe a hefty dose of ramipril and also booked blood tests and ECG.
Unfortunately the ramipril made me quite ill by the next day and made my blood pressure higher. When I couldn't get up in the morning, my kids called their dad and he came over and called 111 for advice. They listened to me being sick over the phone and sent an ambulance. When paramedics arrived, my bp was 177/122, heart going like the clappers, sweating and lying with my face in a bucket, unable to move- so they took me to hospital.
I wasn't there long, just had fluids and anti emetics, and something that brought my blood pressure back down to 135/90. The ER doctor told me to ring my gp for an appointment and get a different medication.
The nearest appointment the surgery could give me was for the last week in April, so a month wait.
In the meantime, my blood pressure continued to rise, (especially once I got a cold 10 days ago) and by this past weekend it was frequently topping 180/120 and I was feeling unwell with a bad headache. I got a bit worried and called the surgery this morning to ask if it's safe to wait until end of April if it's so high. The duty doctor asked me to come have my blood pressure measured at the surgery, and said the nurse would get a doctor if necessary.
I went in and the nurse measured my bp at 180/100, and told me to go and book an appointment with the Long Term Specialist Nurse. The earliest I can get in to see her is mid May.
Can that be right? Everything I've read says anything higher than 180 systolic or 120 diastolic needs urgent treatment. So why would they want me to wait weeks with no medication when it seems to be getting worse?
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Does this sound right, re: Hypertension?
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WhoWants2Know · 15/04/2019 17:26
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