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Originally Posted by Tommyc6
(Post 1973531)
Wife had annual physical, ekg etc weeks prior to J&J vaccine her blood pressure as usual was a tad low, ekg was normal, she is now under the care of a cardiologist for high blood pressure.
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Originally Posted by Tommyc6
(Post 1978100)
Just to be sure there’s no blockage causing her HB she had a cardiac catheter procedure done, no blockage we firmly believe it’s from the vaccine.
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Tommyc6,
I am not a doctor, but if what I am about to say is totally off the wall, there are doctors on this site who will be glad to let me know if I am wrong.
A heart cath is a relatively, sort of, semi-big deal procedure, not usually used if high blood pressure is the only symptom. If there are other heart symptoms like some shortness of breath or a murmur, the doc would order an echo. An echo can look at heart valves. For some things, a Holter monitor might be ordered. But I am surprised at the heart cath for high bp only.
Although I have been vaccinated and believe that in the analysis of risk vs. benefit of the vaccine, benefit wins for almost all adults, I am not trying to be sarcastic. I am seriously trying to help with what I am about to write. . .
Sometimes hypertension shows up in times of stress or ongoing anxiety. For some people, it is only the systolic that elevates. It could be that being in a state of worry about having had the vaccine and perhaps even dwelling on the constant chaos that is created by our access to 24/7 media could actually be the culprit in new onset hypertension.
May I suggest a calming approach. Enjoy the liberation that the vaccine can provide. Turn off the screens — except for movies or series that are just for entertainment. Listen to music. Take a walk. Do things that are fun. Spend good time with each other.
The doc has probably prescribed at least one medicine and will monitor to see if a second one needs to be added. There probably has been the standard medical advice to try cutting back on salt — including and especially the high sodium that can be difficult to avoid in restaurant food, especially in chain restaurants.
The mind can affect blood pressure. As an example, I can be prone to “white coat syndrome.” My systolic blood pressure can hit the range of hypertension when taken at the beginning of a doctor-visit. I figured this out a long time ago and started asking for it to be taken again at the end of the visit — when it dropped. My bp will elevate before medical tests, too. Worrying about medical things can send me on a head-trip and elevate my bp. That is just a snapshot of me as a lab rat to illustrate how emotions can affect bp in just the short time of a doc visit or test. Your wife’s high bp is ongoing though, not just in the doc’s office, but it could also be indicating an emotional component, like anxiety, leading to ongoing stress.
Anyway, I hope you will help your wife to calm down about blaming the vaccine. If you are both looking for constant validation that the vaccine is to be blamed, you, of course, will find it because we live in a time where we can find some kind of validation for just about anything we have convinced ourselves to believe.
In addition to following the routine medical guidelines for the treatment of hypertension, you might need to step away from the chaos caused by the screens that can take up so much of people’s days and nights. The constant pounding of negative emotions is the stock-in-trade of those who are making a lot of money keeping Americans all wound up.
Please do everything the two of you can to come at this hypertension from every angle that is within your own control, in addition to medical treatment. Hypertension can feed on itself if emotions like anxiety are part of the cause. I wish her all the best.
Boomer
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