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Blood Pressure Question.

First let me say I have called my doctors office and I'm waiting on a call back but it's taking awhile so figured I'd try to get some answers here in the meantime. What would cause blood pressure to randomly spike? Was feeling off today so I stayed in bed until 1. I'm lazy I know :p. Any who I finally got up, took the dog to pee, and started seeing spots and feeling like my blood pressure was off. So I immediately went back inside (wasn't even out for 5 minutes) sat down, drank some water then checked my blood pressure. It was 156/110. It freaked me out because I wasn't out in the heat long and wasn't doing anything that could have made it spike. So I laid down for half an hour and took it every 15 minutes and it went down to 124/75. But what the heck caused the spike in the first place?? I'm 37 weeks by the way.
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But definitely tell the doc just to be safe
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If your bp is normally ok you're probably fine. I'm on methyldopa 5 pills a a
day for hypertension and mine will spike still. Dr says it can spike with activity. You did the right thing by resting.
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6759135 tn?1420070652
Sounds like preeclampsia. Especially the spots in vision. You should get checked out.
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mine goes the other way if i'm not drinking enough or i haven't eaten. my bp just plummets. i know people react in both directions because of that though! have you been stressed at all? sleeping well?
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