After pre-eclampsia

[purpleme12]

Once your blood pressure has gone down after baby's born
Do you get monitored at the doctor's for your blood pressure?
Or do the just leave you when it's gone down after birth?

@sirvixofvixhall

With pre eclampsia, you have protein in your urine and often oedema (swelling) too. This isn't like pregnancy related swelling of the limbs that improves with rest and elevation. It will be your face and places like that. Once you see that "look", you know it. Your blood results will often also be deranged.

PIH is just hypertension alone.

PIH can become pre eclampsia.

Ok, thank you. I did have protein in my urine and a puffy face. Not hugely puffy, but puffier than normal .

My doctor told me recently that pre-eclampsia increases the risk of hypertension later in life.

What I heard most recently was that a review had shown those women who developed CVD issues later on were predisposed to CVD and that's what they got PET in the first place. The findings basically concluded that lowering the risk of CVD generally will decrease the incidence and severity of PET.

PIH did show a increase in later onset CVD.

This was presented somewhere recently though. I'm not sure if it is published yet

@Ciwirocks when did you find out you had borderline kidney disease and how? And high blood pressure?
I mean obviously the high blood pressure was there when you had pre-eclampsia but I mean did it go down after and then high blood pressure came back years later? How did you find out about the kidney disease? And what does that mean?
If you don't mind me asking

My blood pressure is not mega high (around 140-145/90-95 I was started on medication for this and then had a blood test a few weeks after starting it, since then I have had quite a few blood tests and my kidney function is chronically low. I am due to go back again as now I have stopped the medication (in case it was causing the kidney problems) and my kidney function is just the same. My blood pressure went down after pregnancy and has creeped back up a bit. I have not been on medication in the meantime, this was stopped a few weeks after I delivered. At the time I did have full blown pre eclampsia though with deranged clotting, liver function and u&e’s so I don’t know if that’s more a risk factor for kidney problems or not

Mine cleared up completely and went back to my normal low bp. Never had it monitored as such and it's normal.

GEEpEe Sorry I might be misunderstanding this, but does it mean that I got preeclampsia because I am predisposed to cardiovascular problems anyway? Rather then the pre e causing the later issues?

It doesn't mean anything about a specific individual.

It basically found that lifestyle factors plus genetic predisposition leads to increased risk of PET, for the same reason, women have an increased risk of developing CVD.

A really simple and blunt way of looking at it is that women are generally more overweight and do more unhealthy things like smoking and that puts them at increased risk of CVD and pre eclampsia. A lot of the time, the same unhealthy individual gets both throughout their lifetime. Sort of like an smoker might get CVD and COPD. Not explicitly related but caused by the same sort of lifestyle factors and exacerbated by genetic predisposition.

@Ciwirocks what about urine Sample? Was that ok? Or was it just the blood test that said your kidney function was low?

No one has done a urine sample, I am due to go back next week, it was several blood tests that have highlighted low levels.

I hate the assumption that is made over pre eclampsia and overweight smokers etc. I went to the walk in centre when the midwives didn’t want to see me (I was only 22 weeks) I couldn’t bend my legs they were that swollen and my blood pressure was 200/110 the walk in centre called the maternity hospital and the first thing they asked was ‘was I overweight’ fwiw I wasn’t and have never smoked.

Yeah another non smoker with a normal bmi here.

Thank for explaining GEEPeE.

If your blood show low kidney function, a urine test isn't going to tell you more other than that the kidneys are leaking protein which they do when there's something amiss.

I had a migraine recently, so I bought a blood pressure monitor. Came up as ok, 120 something over seventy something ( can’t remember exactly) anyway I had another migraine earlier, I get the aura but not much pain. I checked my BP and it was 130 over 85, is that a worry ?