High Blood Pressure

Hi how fab to have a complete response! Good luck with the surgery.

I totally get your anxiety, BP can shoot up for me in medical settings, though I don't have this issue any more having had it taken so many times recently! On the day of my operation the nurse was pretty reassuring and said they expect it to read on the high side.

Do you have a home monitor? I do and took a few pictures of readings prior to going in.

Best wishes x

Hi Templeton, I think if the nurse told you to stop taking your BP medication before the op, she would have known that you'd be ok stopping it for a short time. 

Also, I don't normally have high blood pressure myself, but when I went in to have my bowel cancer surgery it was extremely high (sistolic 207). When I saw the monitor for a moment I thought they would send me home, but the anaesthetist said cheerily 'that'll be alright'. And that's literally the last thing I remember until I woke up to the surgeon telling me the op had gone very well!

i know the prospect of surgery is terrifying, but once it's happened it honestly doesn't seem such a massive thing. Good luck for Thursday, and remember they know what they are doing. 

Karen x

HI

In my experience, the nurses and doctors in hospital are very tolerant of high BP , so long as you can convince them that it is 'white coat syndrome'. I have my own monitor at home and usually get a reading of around 135/85 which is ok-ish, but in a surgery or ward it rockets up to 190/100 or something mad   I seem unable, utterly unable, to relax....but photographing the home readings and showing them usually circumvents this. 

I once questioned stopping BP meds before surgery and was told that they could and would manage it during the surgery.  

Take a few deep breaths and try not to stress. I will be having a procedure that requires anesthesia tomorrow too. So we will be sleeping together lol.