My mothers BP was 237/117 and the doctor didn't seem concerned

[lucyellensmum]

So, i know what a normal BP is, but surely this is dangerously high. I know the Diasystolic one was not THAT high, but even so - the practice nurse insisted and even made the appointment for her to see a doctor at her own practice. We went to the doctors later in the day and it was 199/108 or something, still high but admittedly much lower. Was sent away told to come back on Monday, possibly might have treatment. She has a headache behind the eyes today, has had visual disturbances that she is reffered to the opthalmologist for. Wont go to the docs because they didnt seem to worried. But I AM!! i want to take DD out, which means i wont be around if she needs me, DP will be here but she is a stubborn on bint.

She is 73 and has health problems, but not so that she can't walk ten miles a day with her dog and then get into a road rage incident where she was kicking someone's car door for splashing her with water - me, i would have stayed firmly in my car, shes quite mad!

So, should i be worried or not??

no, the doc said he would start treatment on monday if it was still high. That they wouldnt immediately start treatment based on one measurement. I suspect her BP has been high for a while, i only managed to trick her into getting hers done while we were waiting for me to get my ears syringed (nice). So i expect she will start treatment, but what i am not sure is, is this a dangerously high, acute blood pressure or can it wait over the weekend? does that make sense?

I guess you would have been admitted because due to them worrying about pre eclampsia. 145/90 was about my standard for a while - not pregnant though.

Will see how she feels, im quite that her doctors haven;t monitored this.

she still feels ill, i am trying to get an appointment, but they are being difficult"do i consider it an emergency" yum YES

we are going NOW

Are the doctors not monitoring it?
They have arranged to see her again in 3 days to see if her BP is still high, and then will start treatment if needed.
Was the high BP following the road rage? If so the probably a good chance of it going down a bit by monday.

The GP is probably following the practice protocol. Ours is that we do 3 separate readings, if all are high then depending on the readings depends what we do. 199/108 would indicate starting medication usually, but if she has health problems it may be a good idea to do some bloods first to check kidney function, and probably do an ECG.

It may be that they are trying to appear relaxed as if they panic it will make your mum more anxious and push her BP even higher. They probably wouldn't start meds on a Friday in case of side effects over the weekend.

Also if your mum is a volatile person and gets very wound up that won't help her BP - maybe you could encourage her to try some relaxation exercises?

lpp - i meant that they really should have been monitoring my mums BP anyway, considering she has a medical condition that this can be a complication of.

We went to the doctors, a different doctor to her normal doctor and the same man we saw yesterday. He had to start her on medication as it was sky high today and she felt bad. He said he wanted to try other things (what?) before he prescribed meds but it was too high. So he will see her on Tuesday and see how things are i guess.

She has been told to rest - lmao, when we got back despite me having to hold her up in the surgery car park, she insisted on climbing in through her window, after climbing a 6 foot fence as she left her key inside. Telling me, i must not do it because i might hurt myself thing is, you don't argue with my mother

sidge, thanks for the message - had to laugh at the relaxation exercises, if you knew my mother, you would know why .

The more you write the more I can see that probably wasn't a very helpful suggestion!!

The mind boggles at her climbing through windows and over fences!