Q: My 89 year old mother who is in very good health, active and eats healthily struggles with high blood pressure, which manifests itself by a spiking that she says she can feel when it happens. This week she was awoken during the night and knew that her pressure was high. What could this spiking be caused by? She has been doing deep breathing, but I am trying to persuade her to use the Resperate machine. Do you agree this is a good solution? She does take some medication, but would like to do more “natural” cures. Thank you
A: Resperate is a good option to help your mother get her blood pressure into better control. It has no side effects and will not interact with her medicines. If her blood pressure spikes usually occur during the night, she may want to talk to her doctor about changing the time she takes her medicine.
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Spiking bp is sometimes caused by a tumor on the adrenal gland.
yeah what do people mean by spiking
To measure spiking you need a continuous beat by beat blood pressure measurement system. Then you know it is real, how big the spikes are, and how often this happens. Although our system is not approved by the FDA (we are in trials), we now do this in a sleep lab.
What is spiking of blood pressure?
When the BP rises higher than normal!
I had a hysterectomy more than 10 years ago. hot flashes followed. Now 11 years later I have been experiencing
blood pressure spikes 154/100 this is after 10 min. of first spiking. I get severly red in the chest, neck and face. My arms and hands sometimes go numb. I very dizzy at times. After 30 minutes it is back to normal. This is not an everyday occurance. I don’t have to be doing anything at all. For example I drove my husband and myself to town last Saturday and when we got to the shoe shop I went to the restroom and in the mirror I looked like I had been on the beach all day on the hottest day of the year. What could it be or what should I do?
my primary & cardiologist told me to take my HBP med at night time because it makes me sleepy. ALSO in speaking with the pharmacist (I also worked as a pharmacy technician) the efficacy of your particular medication has different peak hrs……..check when yours is, an take the dosage accordingly. The stats for most heart attacks/deaths are early in the AM
I tried this as well as my meds made me very tired after the early AM dose to the point where they effected me at work. The problem is they wear off over night and you end up with high BP during the day. I usually spiked in the 3-6 pm timeframe when stres levels are at their highs for the day. My BP is always lower in the morning and evening.
Leave your mom alone, for corn sake!
Its sounds like she has an anxiety spike. I have those and when I do it ups my BP,especially at night because I have horrible dreams. About a month ago I suddenly woke up after a bad dream. I was lying on my back and my heart was pounding. As I went to turn over on my side my head ‘exploded’ I lay there in shock. I checked that all my periferals were OK, checked my eyes were ok. I was quite frightened. I went to my GP first thing. My BP was 205/103. She didn’t know what had happened to me and so put me back on to Amlodopine which I had previously been taking before I had a triple by-pass. (I take Beta Blockers and Perindopril plus aspirin).Later, I googled ‘exploding head’ and up it came up as Exploding Head Syndrome. It can be caused by being agitated plus a sudden movement of the head. Its not from the brain but something in the hearing mechanism that causes it. It can happen to anyone at any time, once in their life or several times.Its harmless but it elevates your BP for a while after it happens.
You live and learn..
I experienced some very high spikes about a year ago. The doc thought it may have been attributed to anxiety and/or stress or just genetics. I started medication therapy and found myself over medicated at times dropping as low as 88/49. When the dosage was lowered the spikes started again but not as high. My kidney test proved normal as did EKG. Went to an alternative doc and started a treatment regimen of strict diet, exercise and supplements and am now consistently 115/65. Can’t stress the importance of diet and exercise enough. The closer the diet is to Vegan the better off you’ll be. The endothelial function of the arteries needs to be restored then the spikes will dissapear. Read “Eat to Live” by Joel Fuhrman MD.
I agree with the vegan diet suggestion. It is actually quite amazing how different the body feels, especially after commencing a vegan diet, especially when using fresh produce and none, or very limited processed food. A lighter, healthier you!
It really does do wonders for the body more than I ever realized. A vegan diet gets to the root cause whereas medication does not. Even exercise alone will not correct vascular issues if not combined with an aggressive nutritional regimen