I’m 19 and have high blood pressure.. I feel really dizzy, weak and feel like i will throw up. I have been throwing up 2 times/night for the past two nights.. My doc only said that it was normal because I have high blood pressure. I dont understand. What could be some factors?
Being 19 years old has nothing to do with blood pressure!
Did not want to answer this question, but after reading all your wonderful answers received, I just had to! Here goes;
Causes? Well that is just common sense, your body has many arteries and veins transporting blood to every part of your body right? Okay your heart squeezes blood every second or so through these channels to meet your bodies needs, and through this there is a certain amount of pressure involved obviously!! Well when these channels start to become clogged with residue, gunk, plaque, cholesterol, fat, sludge or whatever the new phrase is by "Docs" today and people, obviously if it starts to block the bloods path, the heart will have to work a bit harder and thus creating a higher blood pressure!!! Duh?? Moving along here, we have the why and now we go deeper.
Remember when you were first diagnosed with high blood pressure and were first put on medications to "control your blood pressure"? Remember that? OK now, when was the next time your doctor took your blood pressure? Two months later? Six months? Three years? Never? The point is, if you’re taking these powerful medications to ‘control’ blood pressure, how will you or your doctor know if they’re working or not unless you monitor your blood pressure every few days?
Heart medications are like most medications – fine for short-term, life-threatening situations. But long term, as with any drug, legal or illegal, eventually your body will pay the price. Looking again in the Physicians’ Desk Reference [6], we find that even the manufacturers of most heart medications don’t recommend them for indefinite, open-ended use. That book is in any library. Look up your medication and see the recommended duration of prescription.
So people say – look at my BP – 130/84. And I’ve been on medication for 4 years. I need it to keep my blood pressure down. Well how do you know that you still need the drug to do that? Perhaps the heart has accommodated after all this time, or else maybe you have learned to do less and to make less energy demands on the system. Is this health? Are you getting stronger or weaker, year by year? And what about the very certain side effects of those drugs?
Others will say, yes I’ve been on medication for several years and my blood pressure is 160/105. Guess what? It’s not that your medication is ineffective – it is definitely having a physiological impact. It’s just that the effect is not the one your doctor predicted. Patients like this are at double the risk – high blood pressure plus drug toxicity and side effects.
Or they say – yeah I know it’s high, but if I stop with the medication, it’ll go through the roof. Long term or short term? How do you know? What if you were on vacation and your cruise ship marooned you on a desert island somewhere, without your drugs. Would you die? What would happen?
The point is, have you ever heard of a doctor taking somebody off heart medication because the drugs had finally cured the heart problem?
A SANER APPROACH TO NORMAL HEART HEALTH
What’s the alternative to this one-way downward spiral? It’s clear that a lifestyle of drugs and bad diet isn’t working too well and probably won’t last too long. Do people on heart medications look healthy? Do they have an active life? Are they getting stronger or weaker, year by year? Look at all the people you used to know in this category who are no longer around.
The natural alternative to dead end medicine is simply this: a combination of lifestyle change and detox. Do you see what you have to do now? No not yet? Okay I will tell you, it is lifestyle change and detox.
A universal principle for any life form is that either it’s improving or it’s dying. Day by day the inner systems are either becoming stronger and more refined, or else they’re degenerating and breaking down. Not both. Unless they’re in a serious accident, most people don’t die all at once, but by stages, day by day, very often with no pain or symptoms. Just like heart attacks. Do these people get a warning? In 40% of heart attacks, their very first symptom was death.
These days everybody is on the healthy heart bandwagon. But it’s mostly frantic, misguided marketing. No fat, low fat, fat free, heart health, low cholesterol, no cholesterol, no trans fats – these labels are found on some very heart-unfriendly foods. How can we make any sense of all this?
Change your diet 100% and detox. DO YOUR HOMEWORK KID!!!
YOU "DOC" WILL NOT DO IT FOR YOU, TRUST ME!!!!
I wish you the best.
The Gemini
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High blood pressure can be caused by many factors. Lifestyle factors such as poor diet and lack of exercise, hereditary/ familial factors, kidney disease, heart disease.
You need to have a medical work up to determine the cause of your high BP so that treatment can be provided. You can start by eating healthy, cutting out fats and excess sodium and exercising.
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It is either genetic, due to lifestyle factors, or a bit of both. You are very young to have these problems! You need to talk with someone about changing your lifestyle/ diet/ exercise.
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It’s time for a new Dr. I have high blood pressure and it’s never made me throw up, get dizzy or weak. Occasionally, the pill I take does what it does a little too well, and my BP drops like a stone; that’s when I feel dizzy and weak. People seem to think when a Dr. says something, it’s written in stone. Many of them aren’t even Drs, and others couldn’t care less.
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These are somethings that you need to immediately cut out of your diet. NO MORE WHITE SUGAR OR TABLE SALT. NO DIET, LOW FAT, practically anything that has things added to it.
Table sugar is a poison, that wreaks havoc not only on your liver but on your blood and your heart. Sugarcane itself is awhole food when consumed raw or in its organically brownish state. When sugar is destroyed by refining it becomes a chemical. ANYONE WHO EATS WHITE TABLE SUGAR will see an immediate rise in blood pressure. TABLE SALT IS WORSE. Sea salt from the ocean is radioactive and actually helps the body disperse nutrients, it actually lowers blood pressure and balances the body since its alkaline forming. WHITE NACL is manufactured and is DEADLY. ITS NOT REAL. When you consume this it immediate sends your heart into a whirlwind. WHY because this electrolyte is false, and your heart cannot use this the way it would use natural salts found in foods and from the sea.
When you consume these on a regular basis, or consume artificial sugar products-splenda, equal, sweet and low, you are damaging your bodys chemical signals and poisioning your body. there have been countless studies about the effects on the heart and deaths from these things.
Your arteries harden because of the stress that is being put on them, these chemicals cause nutrients to be deposited into the arteries causeing plaque and high cholesterol.
IF you eat only fruits and vegetables for a week to start you will see your bp drop TREMENDOUSLY. Braggs apple cider vinegar (2tbls /5 times a day in water) will clear up your arteries, soften your veins and promotes heart health. IT even regulates blood pressure, along with garlic.
Definately find a new doctor, because throwing up isnt NORMAL AT ALL ANYTIME
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Cholesterol…
Lose weight and don’t eat within 4 hours of going to sleep. Eat less animal fat like hamburger, cheese & eggs.
Check your blood sugar.
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stress could be the reason, best ex cerise is walking in the morning for some 30 minutes in the morning.
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In 90 to 95 percent of high blood pressure cases, the cause is unknown. In fact, you can have high blood pressure for years without knowing it. That’s why it’s the “silent killer” — it creeps up on you. When the cause is unknown, you have what’s called essential or primary hypertension. Factors that may lead to high blood pressure in the remaining 5–10 percent of cases, which are known as secondary hypertension, include:
Kidney abnormality
A structural abnormality of the aorta (the large blood vessel leaving the heart) existing since birth
Narrowing of certain arteries
These problems can usually be corrected. For example, doctors can repair a narrowed artery that supplies blood to a kidney. Most of these problems can be ruled out by a careful history, a physical examination and a few tests. Special tests are sometimes needed, but you don’t usually have to stay in the hospital.
Your heart pumps blood through the body’s arteries. The large arteries that leave your heart taper into smaller arteries called arterioles. The arterioles then taper into smaller vessels called capillaries, which supply oxygen and nutrients to all the organs of your body. The blood then returns to your heart through the veins.
Certain nerve impulses cause your arteries to dilate (become larger) or contract (become smaller). If these vessels are wide open, blood can flow through easily. If they’re narrow, it’s harder for the blood to flow through them, and the pressure inside them increases. Then high blood pressure may occur. When this happens, your heart becomes strained and blood vessels may become damaged. Changes in the vessels that supply blood to your kidneys and brain may cause these organs to be affected.
Your heart, brain and kidneys can handle increased pressure for a long time. That’s why you can live for years without any symptoms or ill effects. But that doesn’t mean it’s not hurting you. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure.
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Being 19 years old has nothing to do with blood pressure!
Did not want to answer this question, but after reading all your wonderful answers received, I just had to! Here goes;
Causes? Well that is just common sense, your body has many arteries and veins transporting blood to every part of your body right? Okay your heart squeezes blood every second or so through these channels to meet your bodies needs, and through this there is a certain amount of pressure involved obviously!! Well when these channels start to become clogged with residue, gunk, plaque, cholesterol, fat, sludge or whatever the new phrase is by "Docs" today and people, obviously if it starts to block the bloods path, the heart will have to work a bit harder and thus creating a higher blood pressure!!! Duh?? Moving along here, we have the why and now we go deeper.
Remember when you were first diagnosed with high blood pressure and were first put on medications to "control your blood pressure"? Remember that? OK now, when was the next time your doctor took your blood pressure? Two months later? Six months? Three years? Never? The point is, if you’re taking these powerful medications to ‘control’ blood pressure, how will you or your doctor know if they’re working or not unless you monitor your blood pressure every few days?
Heart medications are like most medications – fine for short-term, life-threatening situations. But long term, as with any drug, legal or illegal, eventually your body will pay the price. Looking again in the Physicians’ Desk Reference [6], we find that even the manufacturers of most heart medications don’t recommend them for indefinite, open-ended use. That book is in any library. Look up your medication and see the recommended duration of prescription.
So people say – look at my BP – 130/84. And I’ve been on medication for 4 years. I need it to keep my blood pressure down. Well how do you know that you still need the drug to do that? Perhaps the heart has accommodated after all this time, or else maybe you have learned to do less and to make less energy demands on the system. Is this health? Are you getting stronger or weaker, year by year? And what about the very certain side effects of those drugs?
Others will say, yes I’ve been on medication for several years and my blood pressure is 160/105. Guess what? It’s not that your medication is ineffective – it is definitely having a physiological impact. It’s just that the effect is not the one your doctor predicted. Patients like this are at double the risk – high blood pressure plus drug toxicity and side effects.
Or they say – yeah I know it’s high, but if I stop with the medication, it’ll go through the roof. Long term or short term? How do you know? What if you were on vacation and your cruise ship marooned you on a desert island somewhere, without your drugs. Would you die? What would happen?
The point is, have you ever heard of a doctor taking somebody off heart medication because the drugs had finally cured the heart problem?
A SANER APPROACH TO NORMAL HEART HEALTH
What’s the alternative to this one-way downward spiral? It’s clear that a lifestyle of drugs and bad diet isn’t working too well and probably won’t last too long. Do people on heart medications look healthy? Do they have an active life? Are they getting stronger or weaker, year by year? Look at all the people you used to know in this category who are no longer around.
The natural alternative to dead end medicine is simply this: a combination of lifestyle change and detox. Do you see what you have to do now? No not yet? Okay I will tell you, it is lifestyle change and detox.
A universal principle for any life form is that either it’s improving or it’s dying. Day by day the inner systems are either becoming stronger and more refined, or else they’re degenerating and breaking down. Not both. Unless they’re in a serious accident, most people don’t die all at once, but by stages, day by day, very often with no pain or symptoms. Just like heart attacks. Do these people get a warning? In 40% of heart attacks, their very first symptom was death.
These days everybody is on the healthy heart bandwagon. But it’s mostly frantic, misguided marketing. No fat, low fat, fat free, heart health, low cholesterol, no cholesterol, no trans fats – these labels are found on some very heart-unfriendly foods. How can we make any sense of all this?
Change your diet 100% and detox. DO YOUR HOMEWORK KID!!!
YOU "DOC" WILL NOT DO IT FOR YOU, TRUST ME!!!!
I wish you the best.
The Gemini
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My own skin.