Question: Hello. I'm a 23 yr old female diagnosed with hypertension and no known "cause". I am a bit overweight, 5'4 and 148lbs, and am a smoker but trying to quit. I smoke 5 or less cigarettes daily. I have no known major health problems. I have only GERD and inappropriate sinus tachycardia and my heart is adrenaline sensitive according to my recent EP study. I currently am taking medication for my condition andI am still having very high bp even during resting times. The bothersome heart palpitations and the high blood pressure suddenly started two years ago. No doctor can give me answers as to why or what is causing this. They all agree that my weight and the amount I smoke are not the "cause" although they also agree that neither of those things are helping. What could be the cause? I need to add that my diastolic pressure has been seen at numbers as high as 130s, 120s, and numbers all in between those on many occasions. Systolic gets pretty high from time to time but generally is 160s and lower. These readings have been seen repeatedly both during physical exertion and at resting times with no stressful circumstances. But they always decrease to high but non emergent numbers within a timely fashion, within an hour. Only reason they have been seen is because of random bp checks throughout the day and night per my cardio doctor. But still, no doctor can give an explanation. Might I add, I do have good days sometimes when my bp is decent throughout the day. It's not very as often as I would like but it does happen. I'm concerned there may be an underlying problem causing this that they are missing. Need advice on which direction to turn so that I can find an answer. I am a young mother of two small children and want to be able to run outside with them like a normal mom without my bp shooting up to and beyond what is considered stroke level. The sudden onset a couple of years ago is the most concerning to me. I didn't have even the slightest problems during my pregnancies. In fact no problems at all aside from GERD and wisdom teeth problems until this all began. It didn't start happening until my youngest child was around 3-6 mo old. And even then my bp was normal. She was around 1 when the severe hypertension was seen.