MAU blood pressure worries

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I don’t know what I’m asking for but if anyone has any suggestions or has been through similar but I’m 34weeks pregnant and I’ve felt like crap all weekend. Bumps doing the usual dancing around so no concerns for reduced movement.

I went to the mau as advised by my midwife after checking my own bp and my symptoms, headache that won’t leave, nausea, nose bleeds, floaters in vision and my swelling had suddenly gone from puffy to puffer fish especially around my face. I work in healthcare and the monitor I have always had my normal bp before so I’m fairly confident in its reading.

Full bloods done, which came back fine, trace done -fine as expected and continual bp monitoring all of which were 140-130/92-85 (I usually have low blood pressure so that’s really high for me) except the last reading taken just as dh arrived which was 98/45 (I’m never below /60) and it was 10 minutes since the last 140 read so seemed like a large drop.. if I personally took it at work I’d have redone it incase of error.

Saw the doctor, lovely lady, who ran through everything but my last bit of blood tests everything there looked fine besides my symptoms and the other bp reading so she spoke about weekly monitoring and said to go a walk while we waited on last result.

Shift change and we got an older nippy sweetie of a midwife, she looked at the last read for my bp which was low and told me off for doing my own bp and I was fine just to go on home.. no mention of the fact I’m now on day four of a headache that I can’t break myself or that all my other checks were high. Literally said “you’re not a doctor” which I’m well aware but again without my bp I’d still have been sent up with my symptoms. No mention of the monitoring told to see my midwife in two weeks as usual and out the door.

I still feel the same.. rechecked my bp and it’s still 130/97, fortunately I have my gp today I’ll get him to do it again to be sure. But I’m at a loss, surely it’s not normal?

And through searching here my mat unit seems to have a horrible still birth rate, probably just made me worry more.

I’m 26 weeks today and at 23 weeks began having mild but persistent headaches.

I was going to the surgery for my whooping cough jab but asked the nurse if she would check my BP first as I just knew something was a miss. I wasn’t wrong, my BP had sky rocketed to something like 180/100, like you it’s usually at the lower end.

I was admitted to hospital the next day and it had come down to around 160/80 which is better but still far too high and I was still having headaches. They bit me on 200mg of Labetalol BD but it’s made my BP come down too much and I’ve been passing out as a result.

They really want to be checking your BP and your urine a couple of times a week. Just to keep an eye. I don’t think it’s unusual for your BP to go up in your third trimester, your bottom number still seems a little high but the top one is ok.

I would definitely stress to your GP that you want your BP monitoring closely.

FWIW mine hasn’t been high since I started taking the Labetalol and have had a growth scan (and another one coming up on Friday) and all is fine with her growth etc.

Good luck!