Re: BP and Chronic Pain

[Guest guest]

This is new to me.

When I first had chronic pain I was treated for high BP.

After a while, my BP returned to normal but my pain did not.

The doc was puzzled by the BP lowering and balancing.

My experience was that BP raised as I was assaulted but learned

to deal with the pain. However, since the pain is CHRONIC, it

became the norm for me.

My question is whether or not the BP rise is chronic like

chronic pain?

--- Marta wrote:

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> The " history of chronic pain and blood pressure " ? I'm not familiar with that.

I do know that one of the ways my doctor can tell how bad my pain has gotten is

that my blood pressure becomes elevated. My BP usually runs pretty low, so if

it's even NORMAL for most people, my doc knows that I'm in some serious pain.

> I know that not everyone has the BP spike with pain, but it's a pretty

universal tell tale sign for doctors. If you have high BP already, then it

might not be as effective a tell, I suppose.but I'd love to hear about the

" history " that everyone is supposed to know

[Guest guest]

My blood pressure goes way up with my pain and my heart rate used

to, but I am on a med for the heart rate. I also have palpitations and a leaky

valve. I have changed my entire diet to lower my BP.

Savella drove my BP over 200/180 so I had to quit it. I had rapid heart rate and

slightly elevated BP before using it for two weeks

and now it gets up high whenever I am under stress.

SHELL

[Guest guest]

My BP rises when my pain goes up over what is " normal " for me...since my

pain is chronic, I'm always in pain. It seems that my BP spikes when my

pain does. I've spoken to a lot of doctors and researchers and most have

said that spikes in BP are related to spikes in pain level.