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Blood Pressure - Early pregnancy

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  • 08-12-2020 11:39pm
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    tsejpf973um0ra
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    Hi girls,

    I'm currently almost 9 weeks pregnant with my second baby. My first baby was 10 years ago. I'm now 34.

    With my first pregnancy my blood pressure was normal - at times even low until 23 weeks -when it steadily increased including very high protein. I was diagnosed with pre eclampsia and delivered my son early.

    At 4 weeks with this pregnancy I went to the dr and my blood pressure was 140 over 104. I was so shocked - I'm slim, eat well, dont smoke, barely have a drink. I had the monitor on the next day and although some readings were high - overall, on average it was okish. I'm presuming the night time readings brought it down.

    The dr is keen that I dont take any medication until after 12 weeks - if at all possible.

    My bp last week was 139 over 97. Still quite high.

    I'm really freaking out about this. I was on trandate towards the end of my pregnancy with my son but my bp was fine until 23 weeks.

    Now my bp is v bad from the get go. Has anyone had bp like this that was controlled well throughout their pregnancy with medication?


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