BP question

[jenbird]

I went to see the gp yesterday as I have been getting severe headaches. I have had them for the last 8 weeks but they have got worse over the last week and paracetamol doesn't touch them.
She did my bp and it was 142/78. I know this isn't overly high but I have only ever had low blood pressure in pg before (#4). My urine was clear and she didn't seem worried. She said the fact that I have a bad headache could be causing the higher BP rather than the other way round. She has given me co-codamol which has done nothing so far.

Don't know why I am so anxious this time. I think maybe because I don't really feel the baby move much yet (anterior placenta) I can't relax.

Has anyone had anything like this?
I am 22+4 by the way.
Thanks x

yes i did mine was 154/80 but i was feeling ill and stressed out it has now gone back to normal i took paracetamol and relaxed, i also have anteria placenta i started to feel definate movement last week at 23 week so hopefully you will too

I had a few nasty headaches about your stage; feels like your head is in a vice ones. I found chocolate and other caffeine was provoking them, although some people do say 1 cup of coffee sorted them out. They disappeared as quickly as they started so all I can say is keep your fluids up and rest. Hope you're feeling better soon :)

I thought you judged how high BP is in pregnancy by how high it is for you. So if this is a significant raise I would mention it to midwife or consultant rather than GP. Just so they can keep an eye on things

I had raised BP issues earlier in this pg (around 16 weeks) with crippling headaches that paracetamol wasn't touching. Eventually it turned out to be a sinus infection, and likely that the pain was causing the raised BP rather than the other way around (ended up in hospital to do with it at 24 weeks, but was completely unrelated to the pregnancy, just turned out I have some particularly dodgy sinuses! 5 days of heavy-duty i/v antibiotics later and a further 2 weeks of oral anti-b's at home fixed it). BP resolved itself as the infection was controlled and the pain went.

One thing I did learn was to be really, really strict with taking the pain relief regularly, on schedule, rather than just as the headache got bad - eventually paracetamol alone was working in hospital, but that was religiously taking the max dose 4 times a day, and keeping on top of it.

Poor you though - I was literally sobbing with the pain in my head, it was horrible. Was so relieved when they came up with an answer and it was nothing to do with the baby

I was having awful headaches but mine are apparently due to my anaemia. The longer I've been taking iron tablets, the better they seems to be getting. Have you had your iron levels tested recently?