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What Causes Fluctuation In BP?

I been watching my BP lately. Last night after relaxing a bit my BP was 11773. I took numerous readiing and they were all good. Today I took it when I got home from work and it was 155/100. I had sushi today and coffee about an hour before the test (Petes Coffee). Can it fluxuate like that? Now I didn't rest and basically took it when I walked through the door. However it did scare the crap out of me.
Mon, 11 Apr 2016
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Hello and thank you for using HCM.I carefully read your question and I understand your concern.You shoud not worry. I'll try to explain you something and give you my opinion.

You should know that we talk about hypertension if we have mean value that exceeds 140 / 90 mmHg.A person might have high value during emotional and physical strees so its mandatory to judge on mean values.

If you just had a physical activity like climbing the steers at your home and after taking a coofee, it is normal to find a pressure nearly 155 mmHg.Physical activity and coffe rises blood pressure.
It is mandatory to measure your blood preasure minimaly 40 minutes after an effort and 2 hours after taking a coffee to have a real value.

So you not worry about this. Keep measuring your preasure once a wile.
If I was your treating doctor I will recommend even some examination like an electrocardiogram, a cardiac echo to evaluate heart function and walls and the most important one a holter pressure monitoring to have a full view of your mean blood pressure values during day and night.

Hope I was helpfull.
Best regards.
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What Causes Fluctuation In BP?

Hello and thank you for using HCM.I carefully read your question and I understand your concern.You shoud not worry. I ll try to explain you something and give you my opinion. You should know that we talk about hypertension if we have mean value that exceeds 140 / 90 mmHg.A person might have high value during emotional and physical strees so its mandatory to judge on mean values. If you just had a physical activity like climbing the steers at your home and after taking a coofee, it is normal to find a pressure nearly 155 mmHg.Physical activity and coffe rises blood pressure. It is mandatory to measure your blood preasure minimaly 40 minutes after an effort and 2 hours after taking a coffee to have a real value. So you not worry about this. Keep measuring your preasure once a wile. If I was your treating doctor I will recommend even some examination like an electrocardiogram, a cardiac echo to evaluate heart function and walls and the most important one a holter pressure monitoring to have a full view of your mean blood pressure values during day and night. Hope I was helpfull. Best regards.