Symptoms of high pressure

Do you often feel overwhelmed and stressed? Are you having trouble sleeping or feeling lightheaded? High pressure can cause a variety of physical and mental symptoms, but fortunately there are ways to recognize and manage it.

In this blog post, we’ll explore the various symptoms of high pressure so that you can take steps to address them.

Initial symptoms of high blood pressure

There are some initial symptoms of high blood pressure, including the following:

Headache

Headache due to high blood pressure appears on both sides of the head In the form of a pulse or throbbing, and the headache worsens significantly and gets worse with high blood pressure, or when doing physical activities, and its symptoms disappear or improve with the treatment of the hypertensive attack and its improvement or demise.

Nausea and vomiting

Nausea or vomiting may be a symptom of high blood pressure. And Nausea associated with severe high blood pressure can occur suddenly, and may be accompanied by a feeling of dizziness.

Blurred or double vision

High blood pressure that doesn’t get treated and stays high for a long time can hurt the retina, which is the tissue at the back of the eye that helps us see. Symptoms of retinal damage may include:

• Blurred vision, or no vision.
• Double vision, which is defined as a person seeing a double image when it should be one image, as the sufferer can see two images side by side or on top of each other, and this condition may affect the person’s balance, movement and ability to read.

Shortness of breath

Shortness of breath can be a sign of high blood pressure. A very high blood pressure can strain the lungs.

Arrhythmia

A person with severe high blood pressure may feel an irregular heartbeat, As if he feels a disturbance in the heartbeat, or that his heart is beating very quickly.

Nose bleeding

Nosebleeds are more common in patients with high blood pressure, and this may be due to the increased fragility of blood vessels resulting from prolonged high blood pressure.

however The relationship between nosebleeds and hypertension is still not entirely clear; As it is believed that there is no confirmed link between the two cases and that high pressure does not cause epistaxis in and of itself, however, it is more difficult to control it for people with high pressure, according to a study published in the Journal of the Saudi Heart Association in 2015.

Symptoms of severe hypertension

Severe high blood pressure causes some symptoms, including the following:

• Severe headache
• Vision disturbances.
• Fatigue.
• shortness of breath.
• pain in chest.
• The appearance of blood in the urine.
• Irregular heartbeat.
• The feeling that something is knocking in the chest, neck, or ears.

It should be noted that if you do not receive appropriate treatment for high blood pressure, this may lead to many complications, such as: damage to the heart and blood circulation, lungs, brain, and kidneys. As severe high blood pressure causes an increase in the workload of the heart, and thus may lead to chest pain and shortness of breath, and in some cases it may cause the rupture of the aorta that transports blood from the heart to all parts of the body, which results in feeling chest pain or abdomen.

It also causes encephalopathy resulting from high blood pressure (Hypertensive encephalopathy), which is a health condition that occurs from time to time, represented by swelling of the brain, which leads to nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, and headaches, and it may cause some people to coma, and it must be alerted to the need to receive emergency medical treatment For people who have the above symptoms.

In addition, there is an emergency health condition represented by a severe increase in blood pressure called malignant hypertension, or hypertensive emergency, or hypertensive crisis, and this causes Severe headaches, visual disturbances, and may cause nosebleeds. As mentioned previously, a blood pressure crisis is one of the cases that require emergency medical intervention to lower blood pressure, in order to avoid bleeding in the brain or a stroke.

High blood pressure readings

High blood pressure is defined as a condition in which blood pressure is continuously high, and blood pressure is a measure of the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries, as the heart pumps blood to move to all parts of the body through the arteries, and therefore high blood pressure indicates the need for the heart to work harder to pump blood To all parts of the body, it is worth noting that the normal blood pressure reading ranges between 90/60 – 120/80 millimeters of mercury, while high blood pressure is diagnosed if the pressure reading is 140/90 millimeters of mercury or more.

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