Does anyone with anxiety also experience high blood pressure? When I was pregnant in 2003 I had pre-eclampsia which is high blood pressure associated with being pregnant. After my daughter’s birth, I continued to have high blood pressure. It has been 18 years since and I am still on high blood pressure medicine along with my psyche meds. I recently have had to go up on that blood pressure medicine – metoprolol.
I am wondering out loud if other people who have chronic anxiety as I do associated with bipolar illness also have need of high blood pressure medicine. It makes sense to me that the anxiety could either cause high blood pressure and/or exist correlatively (not causally) with it.
Are there other folks out there who experience anxiety and high blood pressure simultaneously? Do you consider this causal or correlative?
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Hi. I have a lifelong history of lowish blood pressure. 90/60 until i gave birth: 100/60 since then. I also have had corresponding anxiety, at times medicated, other times not. I can’t speak to a connection between a higher BP and bipolar. I’m sorry you’re suffering. I’m told it can make you feel quite unwell ♥️
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