Delayed pain from a fall and sudden increase in BP

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My wife and I were vacationing last week in a rented condo in Ocean

City MD. I was going from the bedroom to the downstairs to get an

Ice bag for my back pain. It was not quite light yet, being about 5

am and I slipped and fell down the stairs. It was a split level

stair case so I only fell a couple of stairs to the first

landing. My immediate pain was I thought I broke 2 toes on my left

foot. They were very black and blue,bloody and swollen, and

painful. I also cursed a bit. But My back didn't hurt. A couple of

days later we were home and I was cutting up some boxes for recycling

when I bent slightly and got extreme pain at my beltline. I called

my medical massage therapist and got in ASAP. He asked me what I

did, I told him I bent slightly and wham. He said no What did you do

before that. I told him I fell down some steps. He gave me a good

massage, but it still hurt the next day. What did seem to help was a

heating pad and bed rest. I told him that I was still hurting and he

asked what I was doing. He told me to STOP the heat that I was

inflamed and that only aggravates the pain. He also told me to lay

low. So today I laid low and used Ice on it. Tonight it feels much

better. I plan on doing the same tomorrow. I was really angry about

it. My arm still hurts from Tennis elbow. I'm just tired of

pain. Also while we were away I had another medical emergency. I

always have very good blood pressure. Never and issue in my

life. At the shore I was wearing sandals and my wife said look at

your feet. They were swollen very much. As were my ankles and lower

legs. We called her sister who is a PA at a cardiologist. She told

me to go out and check my Blood pressure right away. It was 155 /

95. I'm usually like 115 / 78. We ran through some scenarios as to

why. She though it was from the Naproxen I'm taking for my arm

pain. So I stopped that and no change. The swelling went down, but

not the blood pressure. so I called my Doctor he thought it was a

change in diet, but there wasn't. I don't put salt on anything and

ate the same things there I do at home. He too suspected the

Naproxen. So now almost 1.5 weeks later no Naproxen and the BP is

still up. Have any of you ever experienced a sudden change in vital

signs? I see my Doctor next Tuesday, thats the earliest he could see

me. He's great and normally would take me right in, but he got put

on Jury duty all this week. So that's what's been up with Dave. I

feel like I hit 50 and I'm falling apart.