19th September 2006
Last month I had a blood test done and the BNP was 5 and the normal range was (0-100) My blood pressure at that time was 124/79
This close to a month later (last week) I had another blood test done (different location) and this time my BNP was 19 with a normal range of (0-100) My blood pressure was 159/91 (I was having high anxiety at the time of the test)
I do take Lotensin for blood pressure.
So my question is this;
Do BNP levels fluctuate over time in relevance to each other? For example if I had my BNP levels checked on the 15th of every month for 12 months would I see them go up and down?
I guess my thinking is this, in close to a month my BNP went up nearly 4x times so I could think that it's getting worse or it could just fluctuate due to other non related factors.
MY EKG on both occassions were "normal ecg" and I have had extensive testing on my heart a few months ago and all results were normal.
This close to a month later (last week) I had another blood test done (different location) and this time my BNP was 19 with a normal range of (0-100) My blood pressure was 159/91 (I was having high anxiety at the time of the test)
I do take Lotensin for blood pressure.
So my question is this;
Do BNP levels fluctuate over time in relevance to each other? For example if I had my BNP levels checked on the 15th of every month for 12 months would I see them go up and down?
I guess my thinking is this, in close to a month my BNP went up nearly 4x times so I could think that it's getting worse or it could just fluctuate due to other non related factors.
MY EKG on both occassions were "normal ecg" and I have had extensive testing on my heart a few months ago and all results were normal.