Blood pressure gone wild!
My blood pressure kind of went crazy today during dialysis. Since I went to bed really early, I did not take my evening NIFEdipine pill. When I woke up at 1:30 am, I measured my blood pressure and the reading was 212/111. I quickly took the missed medication and tried to go back to sleep. I ended up doing about two hours of work instead.
Dialysis started out uneventful but at about two hours in, I started feeling faint. I had the tech manually measure my blood pressure and it was 89/50. He quickly reclined my chair, turned off UF, and gave me oxygen to breathe. Not sure what happened but I thought I was going to pass out. It took about another 30-45 minutes for my blood pressure to come back up. Meanwhile, another patient across the room was having major cramps and screaming. Just another day in the dialysis clinic.
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Update: 12/19/2020 9:30 pm
It happened again, though not as bad during dialysis. My BP this morning was 148/something so I took both the Metoprolol and Olmesartan during breakfast. BP started okay at the beginning of the session but with about an hour left, I started feeling a bit dizzy. The UF was set pretty high at 3,500 mL so maybe that had something to do with it. Since most of the session has already passed, the tech just reclined my chair but didn’t give me O2. My BP stabilized a bit but the last standing BP reading was 101/something and I definitely felt dizzy again. He gave me some water and had me sit for 15 minutes. I felt better but they were still worried because another patient had the same experience and ended up in an accident driving home.
I got home okay.
Life with chronic diseases 