Is my blood pressure high?

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I had preeclampsia in my first pregnancy, with swelling, protein in urine and high blood pressure. I'm high risk with my second, now 33 weeks pregnant, and last week with midwife I had protein in urine - due to see her tomorrow to test blood pressure. I have an at-home blood pressure monitor (which is quite accurate) and it's showing my systolic number as 150. Is this cause for concern / should I call the hospital?

Baby is already measuring small (which also happened with my first), so worried it's happening again.

I've also had a bit of swelling, but nothing like I had before!

What's the diastolic number?

What’s both numbers?

Normal systolic would be around 100-140 (although between 130 and 140 is a bit borderline). 150 systolic is high for a healthy adult but not scary. If you are worried then there's no harm in calling the hospital

I've always been under the impression everyone's BP is different so what's high for one person isn't for the next so I think it depends what your BP usually is?

I was told that ideally top number should be under 130, bottom number should be under 80 for a healthy adult.

I am being monitored for blood pressure this pregnancy as previously had high blood pressure. I was induced because it sat at around 159/99.

There's a tool on the NHS website where you can pop the figure in and it will tell you if it's in the normal range. When mine goes over 130 it says "pre hyper tension" 150 would definitely be classed as Stage 1 at least.

Ive had a nightmare with high blood pressure from 16 weeks of this pregnancy with a few episodes of hospitalisation with it, talking 210/130.

Im at hospital twice weekly for monitoring & as long as BP is under 150/100 then hosp are happy. They want me to contact them if its consistently higher than that. (they advised to repeat 4 hours later if a high reading)
Are you taking medication for it?
Id give triage or your community midwife a call for advice.
For me personally 150 isnt particularly high but as pp say, it really does vary.

@OP try measuring again in 30 minutes. I had something similar and then measured again and was fine, so I guess it was just because I had recently done so much stuff in the house. I had severe preeclampsia in the past so this time I'm measuring from time to time when I feel weird( I know the feeling). If I would have tested again high I would have phoned triage to let them know, and they would have probably called me in.

It also depends on your booking blood pressure if you have your notes with you? How high have they umped? both top and bottom numbers?

I was diagnosed with pre-e and had an emergency c-section 10 days ago. Swelling, protein in urine and BP 150/110.

Sorry to jump on this ! I went in today and had GTT test. Felt a bit faint during, so they took my BP.

It was 136/60. Is that normal ? They said it was fine.

@babymummytobe perfect bp reading.

Could speak to your Gp surgery/midwife and ask for a 24h bp monitor

It's a little bit high but it all depends on what your baseline is - what your blood pressure is normally because it's an increase you need to look out for.

I'm m an HCA on a hospital ward. Ideally you'd want the systolic (top number) to be under 120, but amazingly on the NHS Early Warning System, you wouldn't actually flag anything as dangerous unless it was 200, which is stupidly high. Again, I'd be more looking out for something that was unusual for that particular patient.

If you have a look in your handheld maternity notes, you should be able to see what your BP has been measured at previously.

As someone else has said, it's worth repeating the test in a little while. Loads of things can put ypur BP up - eating, stress, exertion, etc.

Apologies if this all comes out as one paragraph - I'm pretty new to mumsnet and I haven't worked out how to break up my posts yet!

@Alderaan thank you for your reply. My previous blood pressure has been 100 / 71 and today with midwife was 137 / 84. She mentioned that anything 20 above the original BP is high - which means that mine is.

Thanks everyone for your comments. I had 3+ protein in my urine at the midwife appointment today and bloods were sent to the hospital. Blood pressure is also high for my normal range. Rang this evening for blood results and apparently all fine (although need to wait until tomorrow for urine results). I'm confused now as to why / what is causing the high protein levels - could it be early preeclampsia? I'm due to see the midwife again on Monday.