20th July 2008
First things first:
16 years old
male
145lbs
FIS Level Ski racer and run XC
A few months ago, I was running a 3k, and on the last stretch my vision went completely blurry and my eyes felt like they were going to blow up. I went home, didn't feel too good that night. Woke up the next morning with a slight headache, so my mom told me to get it checked out at school. I went down to get things checked out, and she took my blood pressure and it was 168/115 at 8:50am. Half an hour later, I was being rushed to the hospital. Got there and it was still high, they ran blood tests, EKG, urine tests, and did monitoring over a 5 hr period. They found nothing. They felt that it wasn't high enough for immediate prescriptions, and they set me up for follow up with my doctor 3 days later.
I go to my appointment, and it is still very high. My doctor, who I feel is a complete jackass who shouldn't have his license, treated me like a 4 year old, drawing diagrams and using analogies to explain what hypertension was. Everytime I said "I know", he cut me off and continued. He didn't prescribe me anything, and had me schedule a Kidney ultrasound due to the fact that my aunt has PSK syndrome. The results came back, but before I could schedule a new appointment with him, he left office. Anyway, my results came back negative, and I scheduled with my new primary care doctor.
A week before my schedule, my #s jumped back up, reaching 178/117 at some points, forcing us to make a sooner appointment. Met with a nurse practitioner, and she put me on a surprisingly low dose of 5mg Prinivil, I'm not sure why the low amount, but I am just going to assume it was to see how my body took it and how effective it was initially. My blood pressure was still high, 155/104 at a high average, dropping a point every few days I continued the Prinivil. A few days before my appointment, it began to climb again, point by point. My new doctor doubled it, and it dropped down to the high 140/90s, gradually dropping from the 150/100s. That was a few weeks ago, and it is beginning to rise again. At my appointment he noticed a slight heart murmor that was mentioned in the ER notes, so he decided to schedule me for an echocardio. The results are supposed to be in tomorrow, so I am making another visit to the office before I leave for vacation. Last week my aunt (double masters in nursing) took my blood pressure with my Mercury manometer, and it was 157/98.
has anyone else experienced a similar problem?
16 years old
male
145lbs
FIS Level Ski racer and run XC
A few months ago, I was running a 3k, and on the last stretch my vision went completely blurry and my eyes felt like they were going to blow up. I went home, didn't feel too good that night. Woke up the next morning with a slight headache, so my mom told me to get it checked out at school. I went down to get things checked out, and she took my blood pressure and it was 168/115 at 8:50am. Half an hour later, I was being rushed to the hospital. Got there and it was still high, they ran blood tests, EKG, urine tests, and did monitoring over a 5 hr period. They found nothing. They felt that it wasn't high enough for immediate prescriptions, and they set me up for follow up with my doctor 3 days later.
I go to my appointment, and it is still very high. My doctor, who I feel is a complete jackass who shouldn't have his license, treated me like a 4 year old, drawing diagrams and using analogies to explain what hypertension was. Everytime I said "I know", he cut me off and continued. He didn't prescribe me anything, and had me schedule a Kidney ultrasound due to the fact that my aunt has PSK syndrome. The results came back, but before I could schedule a new appointment with him, he left office. Anyway, my results came back negative, and I scheduled with my new primary care doctor.
A week before my schedule, my #s jumped back up, reaching 178/117 at some points, forcing us to make a sooner appointment. Met with a nurse practitioner, and she put me on a surprisingly low dose of 5mg Prinivil, I'm not sure why the low amount, but I am just going to assume it was to see how my body took it and how effective it was initially. My blood pressure was still high, 155/104 at a high average, dropping a point every few days I continued the Prinivil. A few days before my appointment, it began to climb again, point by point. My new doctor doubled it, and it dropped down to the high 140/90s, gradually dropping from the 150/100s. That was a few weeks ago, and it is beginning to rise again. At my appointment he noticed a slight heart murmor that was mentioned in the ER notes, so he decided to schedule me for an echocardio. The results are supposed to be in tomorrow, so I am making another visit to the office before I leave for vacation. Last week my aunt (double masters in nursing) took my blood pressure with my Mercury manometer, and it was 157/98.
has anyone else experienced a similar problem?