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Fluctuating BP, Stomach Pain, Headache, Anxiety, Flushes On Rise In BP. How Can I Get Rid Of This?
My blood pressure rises and falls really fast the last 3 days.196/92 was the worse. This morning it was 116/70. A hour ago it was 186/82. During the day it stayed around 138/72.When it s high I get sick to my stomach , flush, headache and it feels like butterflies in my body.
Fri, 22 Jun 2012
Hi,
Blood Pressures do fluctuate from time to time, from group of beats to other group of beats and a simple mathematics tells us that our heart beats for about 96,000 times a day. Higher BP in more than normal in two fifth that is 40% of beats would qualify for high BP and would need treatment.
However, association of anxiety, stomach pain and flushes is not the usual phenomenon. The most common condition (rare if we take all the patients of high BP) associated with is Pheochromocytoma which secretes sympathomimetic molecules. Measurement of 24 hour urinary VMA (Vinyl Mandelic Acid) is a diagnostic test for this. Thereafter, by radio nuclide scanning the tumor can be localized and removed. Usually it is located within suprarenal glands which are located above each kidney.
Dr Anil Grover
Cardiologist
Blood Pressures do fluctuate from time to time, from group of beats to other group of beats and a simple mathematics tells us that our heart beats for about 96,000 times a day. Higher BP in more than normal in two fifth that is 40% of beats would qualify for high BP and would need treatment.
However, association of anxiety, stomach pain and flushes is not the usual phenomenon. The most common condition (rare if we take all the patients of high BP) associated with is Pheochromocytoma which secretes sympathomimetic molecules. Measurement of 24 hour urinary VMA (Vinyl Mandelic Acid) is a diagnostic test for this. Thereafter, by radio nuclide scanning the tumor can be localized and removed. Usually it is located within suprarenal glands which are located above each kidney.
Dr Anil Grover
Cardiologist
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