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High BP, Headaches, Sickness In Tummy, Blurred Eye Sight. On Lisinopril. What Now?

I am 58 years old female, yesterday my blood pressure was 165/82 is this high! I had a headache , took two headache pills, pain subsided, had dinner and immediately the headache started again Felt sick in my tummy, went to lie down, eyesight gor blur and headache was at it worse by then, Took another two headache tablets, went sleep Woke up this morning at 8 to my Hbp tablet at 8.30 20mg Lisinopril tablets no headache at the moment I have noticed the headache only start in the late afternoon What do I do when this happens again ? Zainia
Mon, 8 Apr 2013
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Hello,

Thanks for the query,

Headache in your age group could be related to many causes like brain tumor, temporal arteritis, bleed in the brain, tension headache and so on. Uncontrolled blood pressure can also cause headache. How ever, blood pressure has to be very high enough, more than what you have posted, causes headache. I feel that other causes of headache needs to be excluded in your case. Temporal arteritis needs exclusion and it can be done by simple blood test, ESR- erythrocyte sedimantation rate. This value will be very high in temporal artetitis. I suggest you to get a neurological evaluation which also includes a brain scan. This will clarify the diagnosis so that treatment becomes easy

Hope this helps
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High BP, Headaches, Sickness In Tummy, Blurred Eye Sight. On Lisinopril. What Now?

Hello, Thanks for the query, Headache in your age group could be related to many causes like brain tumor, temporal arteritis, bleed in the brain, tension headache and so on. Uncontrolled blood pressure can also cause headache. How ever, blood pressure has to be very high enough, more than what you have posted, causes headache. I feel that other causes of headache needs to be excluded in your case. Temporal arteritis needs exclusion and it can be done by simple blood test, ESR- erythrocyte sedimantation rate. This value will be very high in temporal artetitis. I suggest you to get a neurological evaluation which also includes a brain scan. This will clarify the diagnosis so that treatment becomes easy Hope this helps Best wishes